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Zelo Street

• Come In Agent Brillo, Your Time Is Up

  If BBC management were in any doubt about the wisdom of continuing to employ their ace political

• Tory Councillor’s Violent Nazi Relapse

  Last July, Roger Patterson found himself in the news for all the wrong reasons. As Lincolnshire Live

• Donny And Percy - End Of The Affair

  Former Screws and Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has in the recent past made great play of his access to

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Politics : NPR

• Trump Returns To The Road With Arizona Trip To Mask-Maker

  While the trip to the battleground state is in part meant to tell a positive story about the administration

• Watch: Senate Considers Intelligence Director Nomination Amid COVID-19

  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has convened an extraordinary hearing to fill the longstanding

• Trump Seeks Catholic Voters, But Some Catholics Push Back

  President Trump aims to rally U.S. Catholics to support his reelection. The effort is dividing Catholics

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Dutch students complete Atlantic crossing after virus forces change of plan

  The youngsters, aged 14 to 17, were on an educational cruise of the Caribbean when the pandemic hit.

• Takeaway chain offering free meals to frontline superheroes

  Frontline health and emergency staff can get free meals after work from today courtesy of a takeaway chain

• Dublin artist appeals for people to ‘stick it out’ after completing

  Emmalene Blake from Tallaght in west Dublin has completed a series of murals on walls around the estate

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Green deputy leader who opposed coalition talks now backs Eamon Ryan

  Green deputy leader Catherine Martin will support efforts to form a government despite opposing entering

• Aer Lingus says coronavirus safety a ‘top priority’ after busy flight

  The airline is to conduct a review of its Belfast to London Heathrow service after acknowledging &lsquo

• Progress in Covid-19 fight remains ‘fragile’ – Simon Harris

  The number of coronavirus patients being treated in intensive care wards has fallen to the lowest level in

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memeorandum

• With Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Isn't Even Pretending the Truth

  Tim Miller / Rolling Stone : With Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Isn't Even Pretending the Truth

• Ohio GOP lawmaker says he won't wear a face mask because God doesn'

  Brad Reed / Raw Story : Ohio GOP lawmaker says he won't wear a face mask because God doesn't

• Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble

  Chicago Tribune : Inmate who agreed to stay in Cook County Jail to avoid immigration trouble lost life

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The Hayride

• WHAT LIES BENEATH: ABC and Stanford Say “No Way” to Chinese Lab-Created

  The argument and evidence are far from settled—far from settled—yet now ABC News thinks it has suddenly

• Louisiana ranked the second worst state to do business in U.S.

  With a one-year gross domestic product increase of 2.6 percent, Louisiana ranked second worst among the 50

• China Restricted Domestic Travel but Not International, Condemning the

  It doesn’t take classified information or insider knowledge to figure out that China purposefully infected

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Our social and economic analysis of COVID-19

  Looking for resources for workers and renters affected by COVID-19? Click here. Additional analysis and

• Keeping in touch with our supporters during COVID-19

  Given the recent coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with requests from health authorities, we have

• The Future of Alberta’s Oil Sands Industry

  As debate continues to rage over pipelines for Alberta’s oil, this report analyzes how the oil sands

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Times of India

• Disagree with PM Modi on a lot of issues but now is not time to fight

• Covid-19: Tablighi head, six others booked for culpable homicide

• Covid-19:6.5 lakh medical kits, procured from China, set to arrive in India

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

• Sonia Gandhi to hold meet with Cong CMs on lockdown 3.0

• Centre, states taking steps for relief to migrant workers, can't keep

• PepsiCo India funded Covid-19 testing kits start reaching laboratories

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | WRAP | Cigarettes, Coffins and Covid-19 lockdown gains could

  Stay up to date with the latest news, views and analysis as the number of coronavirus cases in SA increases

• News24.com | Revolvers, rifles, pistols: Gauteng pensioner arrested, found

  Police find 65-year-old man in possession of three rifles, a shotgun, a semi-automatic rifle, two revolvers

• News24.com | Zikalala warns of new crime trend in KZN: 80kg dagga in coffin

  KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has raised concerns of a new crime trend, after two incidents of

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Ronald Lamola | The law cannot be static or cast in stone

  There is nothing normal about working in a Covid-19 world. When people tell us that the law is not working,

• News24.com | Dan Kriek | Covid-19 an opportunity for farmers to break down

  Many farmers are taking immediate action when they see that problems with food supplies could arise because

• News24.com | OPINION: The plight of the poor and destitute in a DA-run city

  As we prepare for Freedom Day, let us remember that how we respect and enhance the freedom of those who are

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | WATCH | Zimbabwe food crisis worsens with Covid-19 lockdown

  There are concerns in Zimbabwe that a lockdown extension will worsen a food crisis already affecting half

• News24.com | Egypt seeks aid from IMF amid virus downturn

  Egypt is seeking an aid package from the International Monetary Fund to offset the economic impact of the

• News24.com | Murder, power and army on the streets: Lesotho's deepening

  Rising political tension in kingdom prompted South Africa to send officials for talks aimed at calming

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Police officer dies and another wounded after Louisiana shooting

  The suspect was involved in a stand-off with police.

• Children play outside in Spain as European countries work to ease

  The official Covid-19 death toll has topped 200,000 worldwide.

• Boris Johnson returns to No 10 to take charge of Covid-19 response

  The British PM is back in Downing Street three weeks after he was hospitalised with coronavirus.

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WebMD Health

• Navajo Nation Expands COVID Tests, Keeps Lockdown

  So far, more than 11,500 tests have been done in the Navajo Nation, including 9,200 negative tests, the

• COVID Latest Threat to Weakened Rural Health Care

  Rural communities have already seen hospitals and doctors go out of business in the past decade, now the

• COVID-19 Daily: New Study Tracks US Response, Hospital Inequities

  These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.

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WhoWhatWhy

• COVID-19 Casualties You Should Wish For

  Reading Time: 4 minutes The pandemic may not produce herd immunity to the coronavirus, but maybe it will

• Cloudless Skies Hasten Greenland’s Ice Loss

  Reading Time: 2 minutes The bad news about Greenland’s ice loss has just got even worse. Blame it on

• Trump Wants to Inject Taxpayer Money Straight Into His Businesses

  Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump has benefited financially from foreign governments

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Science Blog

• Last supper: Fish use barbs and spines to fight off hungry seals

  What price are you willing to pay for food? As humans, we face this challenge each time we shop, but for

• Exercise boosts motor skill learning via changes in brain’s transmitters

  Doctors have relentlessly impressed upon us the many benefits of exercise. Energy, mood, sleep and motor

• Graphs to Help plan Deconfinement

  The computer scientist Claire Mathieu explains how graph theory can help model the propagation of Covid-19,

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Raw Story

• The pointless demand to see Joe Biden’s papers is a trap

  Observers hoping to get to the bottom of Tara Reade’s accusation that former Joe Biden sexually assaulted

• Steve Mnuchin urges people to ‘explore America’ — as the CDC warns against

  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday urged the public to take road trips to “explore America,&

• Texas professor notices possible ‘coronavirus effect’ of students coming to

  With the United States leading the world in coronavirus fatalities and over 30 million Americans having

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Kiwi App Offers Business Solutions For Contact-less Sign In, Contact

  The way we are doing business has been forcefully changed, and one Christchurch tech company has developed

• 3 Reasons Why A Nationwide Contact Tracing System Is A Pipedream

  At a time when construction companies and businesses across New Zealand are preparing to return to work

• Emirates Team NZ, Igtimi Develop Separation Technology To Safely Get Back

  An enforced national lockdown in the fight against COVID-19 has sparked an impromptu technical innovation

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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

• #WHYFACTSMATTER – E1: The Warning

• Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore

  RIP John Prine While digesting Reader’s Digest in the back of a dirty book store A plastic flag, with

• Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios

  RIP John Prine Sam Stone came home, To the wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the

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The Slog

• THE SUNDAY ESSAY: In Q1 2020, Covid19 was the enemy. In Q2, the enemy will

  WAR IS THE NEW NORMAL There has never, in recorded history, been an event with more agendas, unknowns

• SATURDAY SMILE: the numbers racket

  Today’s lucky winners are 100,000, 9, 19, 73 and 20,000 I found it hard not to laugh on […]

• THE FUTURE OF POST COVID19 FREEDOM: why its high time The Donald and Bojo

  Over the last three years, a lot of Brits and Americans have put aside their distaste for these […]

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Top Documentary Films

• Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus

• George Washington Carver: An Uncommon Life

• AlphaGo

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Universe Today

• Want to Mine the Moon? Here’s a Detailed Map of all its Minerals

  The USGS' Astrogeology Science Center has released a complete mineral map of the Moon, which the lunar

• When Universities Reopen, Will Students Return?

  In response to the Covid-19 global pandemic, schools and universities around the world have shut their

• Supermassive Black Hole Orbits an Even More Massive Black Hole, Crashing

  Recent observations by the now-retired Spitzer mission have led to accurate predictions OJ 287, a blazar

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Front Line Whistleblower News

• SEC Tackles Coronavirus Frauds

  In a major breakthrough protecting the public from coronavirus fraudsters, the U.S. Securities and Exchange

• Is the Climate for Whistleblower Rewards Finally Warming in Europe?

  You would be hard-pressed to find someone who disagrees with the conclusion that U.S. whistleblower reward

• Whistleblower Suit Leads to Settlement on Medicare Fraud Charges

  A whistleblower lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act has resulted in a $750,000 settlement by a

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Andy Worthington

• Nine Years Ago, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Released the Guantánamo Files,

  On the 9th anniversary of the release, by WikiLeaks, of classified military files relating to the

• The Four Fathers Release New Eco-Anthem, ‘This Time We Win’, Recorded with

  Promoting the release of 'This Time We Win', the new single by The Four Fathers, which I wrote last

• Asadullah Haroon Gul, a “No-Value Detainee,” and One of the Last Two

  A cross-post, with my own introduction, of an article in the Afghan media by Asadullah Haroon Gul, one of

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