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Zelo Street

• Bozo Rail Strike Ban - Won’t Happen

• Do Not Underestimate Daisy Cooper

• Piers Morgan Loses Round Two

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Politics : NPR

• Rep. Kim Schrier On The Case For Impeachment

  Michel Martin speaks with the Washington Democratic about why she favors impeaching President Trump.

• U.N. Climate Summit Goes To Extra Time, But Ends With Major Questions

  The talks showed deep divisions, as small countries highly vulnerable to rising seas and powerful storms

• House Democrat Who Opposed Impeachment Plans To Switch To The Republican

  Rep. Jeff Van Drew's decision to join the Republican ranks illustrates the challenging political

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Babe Ruth’s baseball bat sold for $1m at auction

  It was the bat which the New York Yankees star used to hit his 500th home run.

• Taylor Swift Glastonbury news prompts mixed reactions

  The singer will perform at the event in 2020.

• Quiz: Here are four photos – what city are we in?

  If a picture paints a thousand words, you’d think four of them would give you the name of a city.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Drivers urged to take care on roads with snow and ice warning in place

  Wintry showers could cause trouble for drivers anywhere in the country overnight and early tomorrow.

• IFA to set to name new president following lengthy campaign

  Tomorrow, the Irish Farmer’s Association (IFA) will name a new president after a lengthy campaign

• Dublin's new 24-hour bus service deemed 'a roaring success'

  New figures show more than 2,800 passengers travelled on the Number 41 Dublin Bus from Lower Abbey St to

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memeorandum

• Chris Wallace wants journalists to push for the truth. But Fox News often

  Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post : Chris Wallace wants journalists to push for the truth.  But

• Schumer proposes that Bolton and Mulvaney testify in Senate impeachment

  Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News : Schumer proposes that Bolton and Mulvaney testify in Senate impeachment

• Five aides resign from office of Democratic congressman expected to switch

  CNN : Five aides resign from office of Democratic congressman expected to switch parties   —

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The Hayride

• Democrat Congressman Leaving Party Over Impeachment, Joining GOP

  Impeachment continues to divide the Nation, Congress and even the Democrats, as it is being widely reported

• STAY YOU, JOE: An Open Letter to the Latest American Football Star

  A few days ago, Joe Burrow was leaving Atlanta, where he picked up two more prestigious awards, and was on

• Texas received $15.8 million in public broadcasting funds last year, 6th

  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocated $15,794,827 in fiscal year 2018 to support public

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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

• 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

• Crude Lessons

  Crude Lessons: Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan  finds that  it is

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Times of India

• 'My name is Rahul Gandhi, not Rahul Savarkar; will never apologise'

• Those indulging in arson 'can be identified by their clothes': PM

• 'Don't insult Savarkar': Shiv Sena reacts strongly to Rahul

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

• UP charges 600 AIMIM members with sedition

• 15-year-old Dalit girl set on fire dies, 4 booked

• Years of assault on demography, land & culture makes NE wary of CAA

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | NPA boss Shamila Batohi heads to UAE in bid to extradite Gupta

  Justice Minister Ronald Lamola and National Prosecuting Authority boss Shamila Batohi will form part of a

• News24.com | AS IT HAPPENED | EFF delegates elect 40-member executive team

  The EFF turns its attention to the election of the Central Command Team and policy discussions on the third

• News24.com | Mkhwebane rejects claims investigators were forced to remove

  Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has dismissed claims that critical information implicating ANC secretary

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | ANALYSIS | Rashied Staggie: Last of the Cape Flats' OGs

  A look around the room confirmed this: people were enthralled by him despite their fear and animus given

• News24.com | OPINION: Most abusers live in moral echo-chambers

  Such is the weakness and hypocrisy of our leaders that they’d choose the path of least resistance

• News24.com | OPINION: Idea-less DA continues to revert to type

  One look at the continuing convergence between class and race inequalities confirms the reality of race in

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir gets two years'

  A Sudanese court on Saturday ordered former president Omar al-Bashir to be detained for two years in a

• News24.com | Nigeria has a mental health problem

  One in four Nigerians suffers from mental illness, but help is hampered by tight budgets and a lack of

• News24.com | There is no going back to dollarisation, says Zimbabwe

  Critics say the government should allow the use of US dollars and other currencies to tame soaring prices

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Johnson to address new Tory MPs as they prepare to vote on Brexit deal

  The British Prime Minister will welcome the more than 100 newly-elected colleagues, many of them from

• British tourist, 50, shot dead in robbery outside Buenos Aires hotel

  A British tourist was killed and his stepson injured when they were shot during a robbery outside a luxury

• Violence flares in New Delhi over Indian citizenship law

  Police said three buses have been set on fire during a protest.

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TASS

• Maduro says over 65% of Venezuelans want new parliament

  According to Venezuela's Constitution, parliamentary election in the country should be held in 2020

• Venezuelan armed forces 1,000% ready to defend the country — Maduro

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that "we have to defend the right of our people to peace, co-

• Russian Strategic Missile Forces to be fully equipped with modern systems

  Commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Sergey Karakaev said that the share of modern

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WebMD Health

• U.S. House Passes Drug Pricing Bill

  However, the bill has no chance of being passed by the Republican-controlled Senate and the White House has

• A Gift You Can’t Repay

  A woman resigned to dialysis treatments three times a week gets a rare gift when a friend shows up at the

• Sleeping Too Much Might Raise Stroke Risk

  Disturbed sleep was also tied to a 29% increase in the risk for stroke, compared with people whose sleep

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WhoWhatWhy

• Afghanistan — the Gift That Keeps on Giving (to Defense Contractors)

  Reading Time: 4 minutes Amercians learned this week that the Afghanistan adventure they have been paying

• Free Mass Transit in KC — A Slippery Slope Toward Stalinist Gulags?

  Reading Time: < 1 minute Kansas City has approved free mass transit for all. Where most people see a

• Trump, Impeachment and the 2020 Election — What the World Thinks

  Reading Time: 3 minutes As the process to impeach President Donald Trump accelerated, WhoWhatWhy surveys

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Science Blog

• Sustainable sand gives pollution a one-two punch

  UC Berkeley engineers have developed a mineral-coated sand that can soak up toxic metals like lead and

• Ultrasound blasts potent glioblastoma drug into brain tumor

  One of most potent drugs for treatment of glioblastoma, the most deadly type of brain tumor, can’t be used

• More companies sign on to help lessen global climate change’s harshest

  The below Dec. 11, 2019 press release from United Nations Global Compact. 177 companies have pledged to set

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Raw Story

• Trump supporters believe these 10 utterly fake ‘facts’ about impeachment

  As President Donald Trump’s impeachment seems to be all but a forgone conclusion in the House of

• Blue Dog Democrat abandoned by staff after switching to GOP to defend Trump

  Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey was blasted after word leaked that the New Jersey Democrat would switch to

• Chuck Schumer wants John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney to testify at Trump’s

  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants top administration officials to testify in President Donald

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Our new rock-star Professor

  He has carved an internationally renowned career focusing on earth sciences, and now Professor John Cottle,

• Severe Weather before Santa gets to town

  As excitement builds for Santa’s arrival, MetService has started receiving questions about the Christmas

• A Moth Named Barbara

  Dunedin’s Dr Barbara Anderson, who is passionate about all things moths, has just had a species named after

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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

• Wut?

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

• “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

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The Slog.

• THAT SLOG INTERVIEW WITH THE SOUND FIXED….& THE CASE FOR CULTURAL

   Some of you may have heard me going iggle-ubble-sloggle on election night. I was actually making some

• THE SATURDAY ESSAY: Why the West needs a new ‘ocracy’ to help save

  There are too many hidden persuaders, censors and spinners for free societies to survive as open

• THE MORNING AFTER: Triumph for Boris, tribulation for the Leftlibbers & a

  In the freezing, dim light of dawn, we need some signposts to the future   ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Let&

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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

• 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

• White Right: Meeting the Enemy

  Activist and filmmaker Deeyah Khan

• Mystery Mind Maps

  Street art is a vibrant form of

• Dominion

  There's a stark contrast between

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Universe Today

• NASA Maps Out the Water On Mars. Some Will Be So Easy to Get, You Could Dig

  NASA has created a map showing how water is distributed on Mars. The water is frozen under the surface of

• Planets Started Out From Dust Clumping Together. Here’s How

  A new study by a team of German physicists and an American biomedical engineer has solved a long-standing

• The Spaceport America Cup Joins Crowdsourcing Platform HeroX to Propel

  The 2020 Spaceport America Cup will be the largest to date, thanks to a new collaboration with

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Horowitz and other inspectors general stick up for whistleblowers

  Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to talk about his

• Whistleblowers head to Capitol Hill today to tell their tales

  Two whistleblowers are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this morning. Both hearings begin at 10 a.m.and

• Can whistleblowers save the Amazon rainforest?

  Brazilian scientists reported in November that 3,769 square miles of forest cover had been lost in a one

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Andy Worthington

• Boris Johnson’s Election Victory: A Truly Depressing Day for Britain, But

  My post-mortem on Thursday's depressing General Election, which delivered a majority for the Tories

• After Nine Years of Austerity, and to Save the NHS, Please, Please, Please

  My call to arms for tomorrow's General Election, urging people to vote tactically to get the Tories out

• Quarterly Fundraiser: Seeking $2500 (£2000) to Support My Ongoing Work on

  Every three months I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my ongoing work on Guantánamo, and

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