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Zelo Street

• Brandon Lewis - Pants On Fire

• Tory NHS Data Giveaway REVEALED

• Top Six - December 8

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Politics : NPR

• Impeachment: The View From Ukraine

  Michel Martin talks with Penn State's Lena Surzhko-Harned and journalist Brian Bonner about how the

• Inspector General Report Will Revisit Origins Of FBI's Russia Inquiry

  A report from the Justice Department's inspector general expected Monday will examine how the FBI

• What Comes Next In The Impeachment Inquiry

  Michel Martin speaks with Ruth Marcus, deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post, about what to

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• In Pictures: Dashing through the streets as Santas run for charity

  The Father Christmases looked in fine fettle for the festive season.

• 3,000 bulbs and counting ... Killarney's Christmas tree of light is

  A giant Redwood tree has been lit with 3,000 light bulbs in Killarney this weekend.

• Boris Johnson says naughtiest thing he will admit to doing is riding bike

  The same question provided one of the stand-out moments of the 2017 campaign with Theresa May recalling

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Cheaper for State to build than pay rent aid

  The cost to the State of paying landlords to house families is more than the money needed to build new

• Simon Harris could face no-confidence motion

  The opposition is considering tabling a motion of no confidence against Health Minister Simon Harris early

• Sports Minister: FAI funding cannot be restored until overhaul of

  The Sports Minister has said that funding to the FAI cannot be restored until it has completed a massive

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memeorandum

• Warren made $1.9 million from corporate and financial legal work (Alex

  Alex Thompson / Politico : Warren made $1.9 million from corporate and financial legal work  

• Rosario Dawson Joins Her Love on the 'Lead With Love' Tour (Nick

  Nick Corasaniti / New York Times : Rosario Dawson Joins Her Love on the ‘Lead With Love&rsquo

• The Indispensable Man: How Giuliani Led Trump to the Brink of Impeachment (

  New York Times : The Indispensable Man: How Giuliani Led Trump to the Brink of Impeachment  

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The Hayride

• Latest jobs report exceeds expectations, described as ‘blowout’

  The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in November according to the latest numbers released by

• JOE COOL: Burrow’s Star Shines in Both Talent and Character

  Is there anything Joe Burrow has not done on his waltz to the Heisman trophy this year? It seems like it

• Report: Natural gas outpaced renewable energy in reducing greenhouse gases

  Natural gas outpaced renewable energy options in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a

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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

• Crude Lessons

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

• Setting the stage for the 2020 Ontario budget

  Ontarians can expect the government’s talking points to feature prominently in the 2020 Ontario budget

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Times of India

• Unnao girl passes away after 40-hour battle for life

• Hyderabad encounter: Justice must never take form of revenge, says CJI

• Unnao rape victim's death 'extremely sad', case will be fast

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

• Most states face nutrient deficiency in soil: Govt

• NHRC team meets families of Hyderabad vet, 4 accused

• Silence at gunpoint cannot be considered normalcy: Tarigami

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | ANC wishes Zuma well if reports of him taking ill were 'to

  It seems the ANC is just as surprised as most people by news reports that former president Jacob Zuma had

• News24.com | CMS scraps healthcare policies ahead of NHI

  In a surprise move, the Council for Medical Schemes has begun to scrap certain healthcare policies that

• News24.com | Tshwane sending additional work teams to help restore

  Centurion households affected by the spate of electricity outages in the City of Tshwane have been asked to

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | OPINION: Is the ethical tide about to turn – here’s hoping

  In November 2019, the South African Corporate Governance Index reported a slight improvement in the

• News24.com | OPINION I Expropriation: Brexit-like fixation over decision on

  A contextual approach (regardless of the reason for the expropriation) with flexible policy guidelines on

• News24.com | OPINION: 'The DA is accepting of many different

  The view that our identities, including that of race, are "socially constructed" rather than

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Kenya: Survivors found two days after Nairobi building

  Two survivors found after a six-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital, authorities say.

• News24.com | Namibia vows to change 'status-quo' of white-farm

  Farmers wishing to sell their business must first offer it to the state, which parcels it into smaller

• News24.com | Botswana national expected in dock after allegedly trying to

  A Botswana national is expected in the dock of the Kuruman Magistrate's Court in the Northern Cape

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Wildlife conservationist attacked by several of her own tigers

  A wildlife conservationist was attacked by several of her own tigers at an animal sanctuary in the US.

• Finland's social democrats select country's youngest-ever prime

  Finland's social democrats have selected the country's youngest-ever prime minister.

• US naval base fatal shooting presumed to be terror act, says FBI

  The US has sought the assistance of Saudi officials as they try to piece together information about the

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TASS

• Russia to test robot for radioactive waste disposal in early 2020

  Now the robot is being manufactured

• Minsk hopes for $70mln compensation after dirty oil incident - Belarusian

  According to Vladimir Semashko, Belneftekhim CEO is to come to Moscow "with clearly-worded legal

• Russian Sedov, Kruzenshtern windjammers sail off for round-the globe voyage

  The Kruzenshtern is heading for Spain’s Santa Cruz de Tenerife where she is expected to arrive on December

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WebMD Health

• BPA Levels in Humans Are Underestimated: Study

  The new method developed by researchers and outlined in their study suggests that the measurements used by

• Beware of Workplace Germs

  Germs live and thrive in the workplace. Find out about germ hot spots, when contamination is at its worst,

• How Well Are You Aging? A Blood Test Might Tell

  The scientists analyzed plasma -- the cell-free, fluid part of blood -- from more than 4,200 people between

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WhoWhatWhy

• Saudi Military Base Shooter and the Unexplained 9/11 Connection

  Reading Time: 22 minutes Why are the authorities not looking into ties between violence committed by

• The Sleeper Issue That Could Swing the 2020 Election

  Reading Time: 5 minutes US Catholic bishops insist that abortion is the “preeminent” issue for Catholic

• Senate Rubberstamps Another Unqualified Conservative Judge

  Reading Time: < 1 minute Want to get a job as a federal judge but have no courtroom experience, no

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Science Blog

• Research reinforces music’s impact on the developing brain

  According to Assal Habibi, a neuroscientist and psychologist at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the

• A platform for stable quantum computing, a playground for exotic physics

  Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong. This is the crossover event you’ve been waiting for — at least if you’re

• Trackless trains: Is that the future? 1

  The utmost in interplanetary human transport has yet to be commercially delivered. Such is the same

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Raw Story

• Watch Devin Nunes freak out and eject reporters when asked about phone

  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) lost it over the weekend when he was asked about his phone calls with Rudy Giuliani

• Trump supporters lose their minds when church shows Nativity scene in

  MAGA supporters are losing their minds after a photo of the Nativity scene at Claremont United Methodist

• Columnist nails Republicans for only caring about Hunter Biden now that his

  One of the critical questions that must be answered by Republicans, according to one Washington Post

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Meet life-size models of Waipara’s giant penguins

  The now world-famous giant parrot, Squawkzilla, and the monster penguins of Waipara are the stars of

• EQC funds $1 million of research to reduce disaster risk

  EQC has announced $1 million of funding for 16 research projects to help reduce the impact of natural

• Good window of fine weather this week

  MetService have observed a shift in the weather. The northwesterlies which brought severe weather last week

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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.

• The Twattering Classes

  Incorrigibly bigoted and censored as it is, the Twitter kaleidoscope offers some genuine insights into why

• THE SATURDAY ESSAY: Apathy in a troubled society & the growth in disdain

  No 2020 vision is going to emerge from the General Election. In the face of economic blizzards ahead

• We got trouble, right here on Planet Earth folks – with a capital T and

   As the General Strike begins in a France that has – literally – run out of money, trading

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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

• 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

• Tiny, privately owned satellites are changing how we view the Earth

  SAN FRANCISCO — In recent months, satellite photos have streamed into a former textile factory here

• Ocular injuries caused by less-lethal weapons in France – The Lancet

  Since the introduction of so-called less-lethal weapons in France in the late 1990s, there has been no

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Top Documentary Films

• Dominion

  There's a stark contrast between

• Luxury: Behind the Mirror

  From coats to handbags, the demand

• Exposing Jeffrey Epstein

  60 Minutes Australia tackles one of

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Universe Today

• A New Way to Measure the Age of the Milky Way

  Using data collected by Kepler's K2 observation campaign, an international team of scientists was able

• It’s Time to Decide. Where Should OSIRIS-REx Take a Sample from Bennu?

  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018. During the past year, it’s been

• Neptune-Sized Planet Found Orbiting a Dead White Dwarf Star. Here’s the

  Astronomers have discovered a large Neptune-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is four

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers key to exposing Buffalo church abuse cover-up

  “I should really tackle that vacuum closet,” Siobhan O’Connor told herself when her boss, Buffalo

• Don’t expect changes to SEC whistleblower program until 2020

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cancelled a meeting in October to consider controversial

• Today’s the day: join the #GivingTuesday campaign

  Over the past two weeks as part of our #GivingTuesday campaign, we’ve shared with you the stories of Gene

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Andy Worthington

• Close Guantánamo’s Aims for 2020’s Presidential Election Year – and New

  A cross-post of a statement of intent for 2020 - a US Presidential Election year - by the Close Guantánamo

• Standing the Test of Time: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”

  Reappraising "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo", the documentary film about Guantánamo,

• Over 70 Doctors Write to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Expressing Fears

  A cross-post, with my own brief introduction, of a powerful open letter to the British home secretary Priti

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