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Sharyl Attkisson

Will Supreme Court exempt nuns from birth control insurance requirements?

  • The following is an excerpt of an article from Independent Women's Forum from May 7. The Supreme Court

Coronavirus stats: race, pre-existing conditions, nursing homes, age

  • Highest number impacted by race: Whites Highest case rate by race: Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders

Hydroxychloroquine: Politicizing Medicine (PODCAST)

  • Separating fact from spin when it comes to hydroxychloroquine's representation in the media.

BlackListed News

Saudi Wealth Fund Buying Stocks During Weakness

  • Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has bought minority stakes in major American companies including

Low Solar Activity to Cause Temperatures to Plummet, Say Scientists

  • The Sun is entering a period of “solar minimum” that could cause temperatures to plummet by up to 2C over

Report: China Has Jailed Hundreds Of People For Questioning Official

  • China has arrested and imprisoned hundreds of people for merely discussing the coronavirus outbreak in any
  • Elsewhere censorship is more technical. 

CENSORED DOC DOUBLES DOWN

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Links 5/17/2020

Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small

  • $1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead

Links 5/16/2020

NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

Answer Sheet: Teachers, Parents and Principals Tell Their Stories About

  • Answer Sheet: Teachers, Parents and Principals Tell Their Stories About Remote Learning Kari

Yong Zhao: Reimagine the “Grammar” of Schooling Part 2 of Tofu is not

  • Yong Zhao: Reimagine the “Grammar” of Schooling Part 2 of Tofu is not Cheese: Reimagine Education without

A Public School Evaluation System That Fails to Account for What We Value

  • Janresseger: A Public School Evaluation System That Fails to Account for What We Value What
  • Proponents of business-driven, standardized test-based school accountability, the system mandated for two decades by the federal government, say we must use data to measure the quality of the student products turned out at high school graduation.  Educators—and I believe parents and children—agree that what matters is students’ experience of learning while they are in school.

Energy

Oils rallies for fourth day as U.S. crude build seen slowing

  • Oil fell after a three-day rebound as a number of funds shifted away from near-term contracts, fearing a

Helmerich & Payne decomissions 37 drilling rigs, lays off 2,800 people

  • Tulsa drilling rig operator Helmerich & Payne decommissioned 37 rigs and laid off 2,800 people across

BP bolsters reserves as profits plunge

  • While earnings were hit hard in the first three months of the year, the worst of the virus-driven crisis is

Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories

Getting it right: States struggle with contact tracing push

  • Digital tools for tracking Covid-19 could prove less useful if there are major gaps in data.

Vaccine is possible by end of year, Johns Hopkins expert says

  • But Dr. Tom Inglesby said he wouldn’t “bank on it.”

As deadline looms, companies rush to return small business funds

  • The attempt to discourage businesses from seeking the loans if they have access to other funding sources

Politics

Tiffany Trump Celebrates Her Law School Graduation in Summery Tank Top + Worn-In White Loafers

  • Just call her Tiffany Trump, Esquire.
    Footwear News

Wisconsin's economy is reopening and it's a hot coronavirus mess. Don't do what we did.

  • The Republican plan all along was to thwart any plan. Granted a seat at the table, they now have set the table on fire and thrown it out the window.
    USA TODAY Opinion

Eric Trump says coronavirus will ‘magically go away’ after election, suggesting disease is a Democrat ploy

  • Eric Trump says that after the 2020 election the coronavirus pandemic will “magically all of a sudden go away and disappear” and everyone will suddenly be in favour of reopening the country.Attacking Democrats and the Biden campaign, he said that there was a strategy at play to use the coronavirus to stop his father being re-elected by keeping the country locked down and therefore stopping Trump campaign rallies, and including tactics such as mail-in ballots in pandemic relief legislation.
    The Independent

Navajo Times

Gallup sets up emergency water stations

  • To ensure people were not denied access to the water station, Gallup Water and Sanitation Director Dennis

Homeless in border town getting by, livin

  • She didn’t hesitate to give what she could give. Shylah Pettigrew knows all too well what it feels like to

Gallup lockdown extension granted, to remain in effect until Thursday

  • A request asking New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham from newly sworn-in Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi to

Ancient Code

Pentagon, U.S. Finally Gov Releases Navy UFO/UAP Footage: What’s next?

  • Back in 2004, the Navy captured footage of “unexplained aerial phenomena.” Translation, Navy

Archaeologists uncover Celtic smelting furnace in Poland that pre-dates

  • Archaeologists in Poland made a delightful and exciting find near the city of Warkocz by excavating a

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson doesn’t believe Trump’s answers about UFOs

  • Controversial Fox News’s Tucker Carlson appeared on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens

DutchNews.nl

Dutch official coronavirus death toll rises by 53; 9,000 ‘excess’ deaths in

  • The official death toll from coronavirus has risen by a further 53, taking the total to 5,643, the public

Investment for e-bike maker VanMoof as coronavirus fuels demand

  •   Dutch e-bike makers VanMoof have landed a €12.5m investment from venture capital firms Balderton

Zandvoort aldermen resign over road to the Formula 1 race track

  • The entire executive board at Zandvoort local council has now resigned in a row over an access road to the.

BleepingComputer

GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts

  • GoDaddy notified some of its customers that it had to reset their passwords after an unauthorized party

LockBit ransomware self-spreads to quickly encrypt 225 systems

  • A feature of the LockBit ransomware allows threat actors to breach a corporate network and deploy their

Office 365 to stop data theft by disabling external forwarding

  • Microsoft is planning to put a stop to enterprise data theft via email forwarding by disabling Office 365&#

AboveTopSecret.com Top Topics

1 dead 3 injured as meteorite hits southern India (27 flags)

  • And it has created a record. First recorded human fatality due to a meteorite. Can someone bring up the

Donald Trump: Id bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding (25

  • http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/06/donald-trump-waterboarding-republican-debate-torture

Iowans claim instances when Sanders was shorted delegates (20 flags)

  • http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/06/iowans-claim-instances

Accuracy In Academia

Ohio State creates Pay to Play Model for NCAA athletes

  • Paying NCAA college athletes has become a controversial topic in the sports world, and Ohio State

Harvard University, after uproar, declines coronavirus stimulus money

  • With an endowment fund valued at $41 billion, Harvard University was slated to receive a $8.6 million in

GWU Student President: Activist Groups’ Leadership is Too White

  • George Washington University has another controversy on its hands with regards to its campus activism. This

Al Jazeera English

Afghanistan: Ghani and Abdullah sign power-sharing deal

  • Under the agreement, Abdullah will lead council for peace talks and members of his team will be included in

India lockdown 4.0: Delhi extends restrictions - Live updates

  • Interior ministry to announce new guidelines as nationwide lockdown extended until May 31.

Rami Makhlouf rejects gov't demand he step down from Syriatel

  • Rami Makhlouf was part of the president's inner circle and played a signifcant role in financing al

AllThingsD » Walt Mossberg

Top Products in Two Decades of Tech Reviews

  • Walt Mossberg on the dozen personal-technology products that were the most influential over two decades of

Diabetes Data Beamed to Your Phone

  • New meters from iHealth and LifeScan are small steps toward better diabetes care.

Two Houses, One Cable TV Bill

  • Walt answers questions from readers about streaming TV from one house to another and the search for

altahrir, news of Islam, Muslims, Arab Spring and special Palestine

British MPs urge government to impose sanctions on Israel if it annexes

  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Benjamin Netanyahu at No. 10 Downing Street, in London

Terrorism was Israel’s ‘pretext’ to turn Jordan into Palestine, says Ehud

  • Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak The goal of the First Lebanon War was to bring down the Hashemite

PA arrests 21 Palestinians in first 10 days of Ramadan

  • Palestinian Authority police forces can be seen violently arresting a Palestinian man on 12 March 2017 The

BBC News - Home

Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new cases grow

  • The Latin American nation now has more than 230,000 infections - the world's fourth highest number.

Du Wei: Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead at home

  • Initial findings suggest there was no foul play in the death of Du Wei at his home near Tel Aviv.

Pakistan girls shot dead over mobile video

  • The teenage Pakistani girls were reportedly killed by a relative after video showed them with a man.

Bartholomew's Notes

Court Finds For Former MP in Counterclaim Against “VIP Sex Abuse” Accuser

  • From the Daily Mail: A former Liberal Democrat MP is to receive libel damages from an alleged fantasist who

Sandy Hook Conspiracism: A Note on Moon Rock Books

  • From CBS News, in June: The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a

BBC News Probes “Annie Tacker”

  • This one is being widely reported – from Phil Kemp at BBC News: There are many unanswered questions

Everything Matters: Beyond Meds

S.A.D? (Seasonal Affective Disorder) or might we be fighting nature?

  • Originally posted on Everything Matters: Beyond Meds : Healthline, which features my site along with nine

Go all the way. Roll the dice.

  • Charles bukowski at his finest — and heck, he’s a cat person…after my own heart…

Chronic illness and pharmaceutical injury…what is it?

  • This is my experience after what, at this point, amounts to thousands of hours of mindful presence with the

BlackListed News

Here’s Why The US Economy Would Continue To Crash Even If All Lockdowns

  • COVID-19 has created an enormous amount of fear, and that fear is doing far more damage to the economy than

“Big Doctor”: Fever-Reading Drones Just The Beginning

  • Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a

Kansas City Forces Businesses, Churches to Keep Lists of Visitors for COVID

  • As part of its partial reopening of “nonessential” institutions, Kansas City, Missouri, is now requiring

Brave The World

Newborn is Here: Things to Have on Your Bed

  • This is not a list of baby “must-haves.” This is a list for the bedridden mothers. When a

10 Low Time Preference Parenting Tactics

  • Low time preference is a term generally used in economics or evolutionary psychology to describe an

Slav Mom Cooking

  • This is NOT medical advice. Please consult your doctor before you eat food. Low fat, high carb, high sugar

Center on Budget: Comprehensive News Feed

State Emergency Assistance Fund Could Help Families Facing Significant

  • Amid COVID-19 and the resulting economic fallout, states will need additional resources to

Red, Blue States Alike Need More Federal Support

  • States will need more fiscal relief to avoid having to make deep budget cuts to meet their

Putting the Size of the Needed COVID-19 Fiscal Response in Perspective

  • The severe and unprecedented size of the health, human, and economic crisis caused by COVID

Coyote Blog

Another Climate-COVID Computer Modelling Similarity

  • In this post, I wrote about parallels between climate and COVID alarm and related issues of computer

Parallels Between COVID-19 Alarm and Global Warming Alarm

  • So I finally had a day or two of downtime from trying to keep my business afloat (it's weird reading

For the Left, Excess Hospital Beds Were "Too Many Deoderants" ...

  • For years, a significant critique (mostly from the Left) of health care costs has been that over-investment

Dandelion Salad

Caleb Maupin: What is the Lumpenproletariat? + Will Griffin: What Are The

  • by Caleb Maupin Writer, Dandelion Salad Caleb Maupin (website) Caleb Maupin (Facebook Page) May 10, 2020 #

Chris Hedges and Matthew Hoh: The High Rate of Suicide Among Veterans

  • Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on May 9, 2020 On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to

Bay of Pigs – Not, by Finian Cunningham

  • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Sputnik, May 7, 2020 May 8, 2020 

Fabius Maximus website

RussiaGate is another step along the road for America

  • I recommend reading a new article about the origins of RussiaGate. This post puts RussiaGate in a larger

America jumps to a new future

  • Enough reporting! Let's understand why we – and the Republic – are changing and see what lies ahead for

The Swallow – a story of the WWII Night Witches

  • A skeptical Soviet aircraft mechanic has a surprise encounter with a Night Witch, one of the legendary

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