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Zelo Street

• Bozo Screws Up His Own Campaign

• Fawkes Hires Another Congenital Liar

• Chicken Bozo’s Farewell To Uxbridge

Politics : NPR

• 'New York Magazine' Takes A Look Inside Joe Biden's

  NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with reporter Olivia Nuzzi about her New York Magazine profile on the Biden

• Boeing CEO Faces Tough Questions From Lawmakers Over Safety Of 737 Max

  Boeing's CEO faced tough questions on Capitol Hill Tuesday about design flaws that caused two deadly

• Dark Money, Politics, And The Ways People Hide Big Political Donations

  Robert Maguire of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C., talks with NPR's Ari

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• The best celebrity Halloween costumes of 2019

  These stars have pulled out all the stops with their fancy dress looks.

• Boy with leukaemia ‘fulfils wish’ to find Loch Ness Monster

  Zachary White was taken to the famous waters in the Scottish Highlands by a children’s charity.

• Fireball spotted in the skies over Ireland and the UK

  What appeared to be a meteor could be seen from Ireland to South Yorkshire.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Northern Ireland votes ‘will matter as never before’ in Dec 12 UK election

  It would be the first December British election in 100 years and there would be a five-week campaign by

• Gardaí find €3.2m in drugs, hidden among vegetables in truck

  Two men, aged 57 and 42, from the UK and Northern Ireland were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking.

• Ex-chief EU negotiator ‘slower’ to realise issue of movement of goods

  Sir Olly Robbins masterminded Theresa May’s deal.

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memeorandum

• Menendez seeks probe into if Pompeo violated Hatch Act (Jordain Carney/The

  Jordain Carney / The Hill : Menendez seeks probe into if Pompeo violated Hatch Act   — 

• Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat (The Daily Beast)

  The Daily Beast : Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat   —  The

• Kentucky Governor's Race Tests Impact of Impeachment in States

  Jonathan Martin / New York Times : Kentucky Governor's Race Tests Impact of Impeachment in States &

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The Hayride

• LAO: Louisiana prisons have difficulty tracking inmate release dates

  According to a new report by the state’s Legislative Auditor’s Office (LAO), the Department of

• Trump: Afghanistan is safer than Chicago [videos]

  President Donald Trump said Monday that gun violence in Chicago was embarrassing to the U.S. Afghanistan is

• ISIS Spokesman, Likely Baghdadi Successor Killed By US Airstrike

  In another crippling blow to the radical jihadist group known as ISIS, the organization’s spokesman and

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Ongoing CCPA analysis of Ontario education funding

  CCPA-Ontario is closely following changes to education funding in the province. The following analysis

• 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

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Times of India

• Indians have smaller brains, reveals study

• India takes up Pakistan's denial of airspace use to PM's aircraft

• IS chief Baghdadi, world’s No. 1 terrorist, dead: Trump

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

• Don’t award sentences in a cavalier manner, rules SC

  Holding that punishment should be proportional to the seriousness of an offence and accused should not be

• Naga group hopes for deal, govt refuses to relax deadline

• PM Modi signals deeper energy ties with Saudi Arabia

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Siya Kolisi's father takes first trip abroad to watch son

  Fezakele Kolisi will travel abroad for the first time to watch his son lead the Springboks in the Rugby

• News24.com | Grieving Herolds Bay dad rejects rumours of fraud, affairs and

  The Herolds Bay father and husband, who had to identify his wife and son who were found dead in the sea

• News24.com | Jiba gets another chance to explain why she should be deputy

  Nomgcobo Jiba will have seven days to convince the portfolio committee on justice and correctional services

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | ANALYSIS: No accountability as Mantashe, Presidency dodge

  Gwede Mantashe seems to be in trouble. He told the Sunday World he bribed to journalists to make an

• News24.com | Mamphela Ramphele: It's time citizens demand government

  Our young people need to take courage from young people from other parts of the world who have taken up the

• News24.com | OPINION: Mantashe betrayed the public trust. Why he must be

  Gwede Mantashe has betrayed the public trust placed in him and should, as a minimum, be immediately

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Thousands homeless after floods in Central African Republic

  The worst flooding in two decades in the Central African Republic has left at least 28 000 people homeless,

• News24.com | Over 100 inmates escape prison after torrential rain in

  Torrential rains in central Nigerian Kogi State allowed more than a hundred inmates to escape from prison,

• News24.com | 13 militants killed in Egypt - interior ministry

  Egyptian security forces killed 13 suspected militants in a raid in the restive North Sinai, the interior

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Switch to ‘green’ inhalers could cut emissions and NHS drug costs – study

  The research looked at the carbon footprint of inhalers, which account for almost 4% of the greenhouse gas

• Johnson prepares for 'tough' election fight as Commons votes for

  British MPs vote by 438 to 20 to back a Bill enabling the election to take place on December 12.

• Commons approves December 12 British general election by massive majority

  Legislation for an early British general election on December 12 has cleared the Commons after MPs voted in

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TASS

• Russia informs Turkey about withdrawal of Kurdish units from Syria's

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey trusts Russia on the issue of withdrawal of

• US actions in Syria run counter to international law — Lavrov

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that military presence of Russia, Iran and Turkey in Syria was

• Turkey plans to return 2 million refugees to Syria's north — Cavusoglu

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the return of refugees to northern Syria "should

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WebMD Health

• Stressed Out? Maybe Not If You're a Narcissist

  Three British studies now suggest that some amount of narcissism may not be such a bad thing. Why? Because

• Ban on Sale of Sugary Drinks Trimmed Employees' Waistlines

  In a before-and-after study, researchers found that the ban, begun in 2015, cut employees' intake of

• Doctors Seldom Discuss Gun Safety with Patients

  After a mass shooting, pediatricians are less likely to ask parents about gun safety in the home, a new

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WhoWhatWhy

• The Wildfire Death Toll Nobody Talks About

  Reading Time: 5 minutes WhoWhatWhy uncovers a mental health crisis among wildland firefighters. The post

• Why Facebook’s News Tab May Not Be Enough

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Military May Use Lethal Force on Civil Disturbances at Border ; Canine

• ‘Hong Kong: White Terror’ in the City of Fear

  Reading Time: 4 minutes In Hong Kong, intimidation and paranoia are seeping into everyday life. The post

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Science Blog

• Telomeres: The Longer the Better

  Mice have much longer telomeres than we do, long enough that telomeres never get critically short in a

• Over concerns of oil industry smog-cleanup delay, conservation groups

  The fracked gas and oil industries are large contributors of photochemical smog. So says who? Well, for one

• Parkinson’s disease: Stimulation of brain, feet may help people overcome

  Paolo Sanvito would often freeze like a statue after entering a meeting room when he was working as a

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Raw Story

• Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines environmental honor

  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday refused to accept an environmental award, saying the

• British MPs vote for December election to finally break Brexit deadlock

  British MPs on Tuesday agreed to hold an early election on December 12, backing Prime Minister Boris

• Lt Col Vindman testified transcript released by White House has crucial

  President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his phone call with the president of Ukraine was “

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Wellington Medical Researches awarded $29,945

  Wellington-based medical researchers have received $29,945 in Research For Life ’s second funding round for

• Why kinship is key to caring about the living world

  (Headline abbreviated, original headline: Why a sense of kinship is key to caring about the living world)

• Sunday roast for eastern and inland areas

  Metservice are forecasting temperatures to climb into the mid to late twenties for eastern and inland areas

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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

• “Power Is Going To Cede Nothing Without A Struggle”

• Show Up

  REMOVE TRUMP Join us: We are rising up for Trump’s removal. ​ Trump’s crimes against our

• I Told You So

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

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The Slog.

• OPINION: Confused about Brexit? You shouldn’t be.

  For the first time since the Referendum, yesterday’s Parliamentary session made the strategy for true

• REVEALED: THE HIDDEN BOMB IN THE EU’s EXTENSION OFFER

  If Boris Johnson accepts the EU’s offer of an extension, genuine Leave voters will have no choice but

• THE SUNDAY ESSAY: why the State wants to make you too frightened to think

   You can either opt out or speak out. Doing the former leaves the field free for Owen Jones, Dominic Grieve

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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

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

• Space Shuttle: The Human Time Bomb

  On February 1, 2003, as the Space

• Square One

  Square One mounts a full-throated

• The Great Leap Forward

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is one

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Universe Today

• Weekly Space Hangout: October 30, 2019 – Evelyn MacDonald on Finding Earth-

  Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein)

• X-37B Lands After 780 Days in Orbit Doing ???

  The X-37B, the US Air Force’s experimental, Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has come back down to Earth

• SpaceX is Sure They’ll be Able to Land Starship on the Moon in 2022

  As the president of SpaceX said at the 2019 IAC, the company hopes to conduct missions to the Moon by 2022,

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Washington's Blog

• Has California Lost The Mandate of Heaven?

  In Chinese history, natural disasters were viewed as portents that the The Mandate of Heaven (tianming or &

• Will MMT Work as Intended, Or Will It Trigger the Collapse of “Money”?

  Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is presented as a means to painlessly fund the large-scale infrastructure

• Talk Nation Radio: Mark Isaacs on Peace Activism in Afghanistan

  Mark Isaacs is the author, among other books, of the new book, The Kabul Peace House, which we discuss, and

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers and civil servants are guardian angels, not deep-state

  Dan Zak in The Washington Post muses on the role of whistleblowers: The whistleblower has gotten into the

• NY Times: All info IC whistleblower shared has been confirmed

  In a staff editorial entitled “Thanks Whistleblower, Your Work is Done,” The New York Times includes an

• Dumpster fire confirmed: IG describes dysfunctional VA whistleblower

  The clamor continues for the intelligence community whistleblower to come forward. But, the Democrats now

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Andy Worthington

• Celebrating 900 Days of My Photo-Journalism Project, ‘The State of London’

  Today I'm marking 900 days since I first began posting a photo a day on the Facebook page, 'The

• As a Frail and Confused Julian Assange Appears in Court, It’s Time For the

  The latest news regarding Julian Assange, held at Belmarsh maximum-security prison since April, pending his

• My New Article for Novara Media: The Achilles Street Estate in New Cross

  A link to - and discussion of - my new article for Novara Media, about fundamental problems with a ballot

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