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Zelo Street

• Emily Hewertson Kicks Off

  Those who look in regularly on Zelo Street may remember Emily Hewertson, and the BBC mistakenly giving her

• Free Speech Union’s Bigotry Problem

  While the Free Speech Union, domain of the loathsome Toby Young, announces the presence of a “ Terrific we-

• Boris Shits On Key Workers

  While most papers have splashed the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard story over their front pages, including

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Politics : NPR

• 'The Violence Inside Of Us' Author Sen. Chris Murphy On New Book

  NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) about his new book The Violence Inside Us:

• Young Republican Delegates Discuss RNC Convention

  NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three young Republican delegates about their party's convention

• Director Of National Intelligence Cancels Verbal Election Security

  The Director of National Intelligence office will no longer verbally brief Congress on election

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Irish campsite and caravan parks far from full despite 'staycation'

  Gardaí have appealed to caravan and campervan owners to protect their vehicles, after a rise in

• Qantas 747 plane draws kangaroo in the sky during final journey from

  The jumbo jet is making its last flight before being retired and stripped for parts

• 5 zoo hotels where you can watch the animals from your room

  As close as real life gets to ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Rory McIlroy and wife Erica Stoll expecting their first child

  The baby girl is due 'any day'

• Criminal investigation launched into death of man outside house in Cork

  Gardaí were called to Eagle Valley in Cork City at around 1.10am, after reports of an unconscious

• FAI welcomes Catherine Martin and Jack Chambers decision to attend Monday&#

  This is to ensure that the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Government will be implemented in full.

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memeorandum

• Trump Bets on Law-and-Order Message to Sway Swing Voters (Wall Street

  Wall Street Journal : Trump Bets on Law-and-Order Message to Sway Swing Voters   — 

• U.S. Intelligence Office to Stop Briefing Congress on Election Security

  Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : U.S. Intelligence Office to Stop Briefing Congress on Election

• As wildfires rage, California needs more firefighters. Why won't it let

  Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle : As wildfires rage, California needs more firefighters. 

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The Hayride

• Part Three Of Perdition Dropped Over The Weekend, And So Far Folks Seem To

  Every once in a while I’ll post here on The Hayride to update our readers on my other writing project

• Jennifer Rubin Perfectly Illuminates The Stupidity Of Our Legacy Media

  So here’s a screenshot of a tweet by the Amazon Post’s “conservative” columnist

• Happy With The Performance Of Politicians? Then Stay Home on July 11th!

  There’s a meme going around on Facebook that points out several prominent Democrat politicians (like Biden,

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Statement from the CCPA on systemic state violence and anti-Black racism

  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is angered and outraged by ongoing police violence and

• A message to our supporters from Erika Shaker, CCPA National Office

  The past few weeks have been overwhelming and, like many of you, I’m struggling to process our new and

• Green New Deal(s) the World Needs Now - A Webinar Series

  In the spring of 2020, the CCPA partnered with the New York and Brussels offices of the Rosa Luxemburg

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Times of India

• MHA forms panel to probe three Gandhi family trusts

• Won't be intimidated by blind witch hunt: Congress on probe against

• Ladakh stand-off: How India also waged a diplomatic war against China

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

• PM Modi to address nation through 'Mann Ki Baat' today

  Earlier on August 18, Prime Minister Modi had asked people to share their inputs and ideas for the 68th

• Health sinks fast, 3 Maha docs die of Covid in a day

• BJP: Cong ‘hypocrite’, backed booze sale but opposes exam

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | BREAKING | Deputy President David Mabuza cancels question

  Question sessions with Deputy President David Mabuza in the National Council of Provinces and National

• News24.com | Eastern Cape's Covid-19 nightmare could see 9 000 '

  Amid a surge in Covid-19 infections, the Eastern Cape faces critical health shortages.

• News24.com | LIVE | Ban on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes will remain

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

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Qaanitah Hunter | We are traumatised as a nation and there is

  Covid-19 has added to our burdens as we deal with gender-based violence, brutal crime and corruption

• News24.com | OPINION | Bye buy: The coffin business and Takealot

  Covid-19 has introduced us to some interesting things, including being able to purchase a coffin online

• News24.com | OPINION | Covid -19: We need each other to get through this

  This writer, who asked to be anonymous, writes that we will only weather the Covid-19 pandemic if we reach

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died

  Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the ruling party's candidate for October's

• News24.com | Nigeria restarts domestic flights amid easing coronavirus

  Nigeria will resumed domestic flights after a hiatus of around three months as Africa's most populous

• News24.com | UPDATE | Ethiopia violence death toll rises to 239

  The death toll from demonstrations that have erupted in Ethiopia following the murder of a popular singer

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell seeks gagging order in Epstein sex crime case

  Maxwell pleaded not guilty last week to charges that she recruited three girls.

• Twitter cracking down on Trump-backing conspiracy theory QAnon

  The QAnon conspiracy theory is centred on the baseless belief that the president is waging a secret

• Joe Biden launches wide battleground push with extensive advertising

  The campaign will cover print, radio and TV.

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WebMD Health

• 'Black Panther' Star Boseman Dies of Cancer at 43

  Boseman, who also starred as Jackie Robinson in '42,' died of colon cancer.

• With COVID Vax in Works, 20% Don't Believe in Shots

  Misinformed vaccine beliefs drive opposition to public vaccine policies even more than politics, education,

• COVID Unlikely to Be Transmitted by Breast Milk

  No cases of an infant contracting COVID-19 from breast milk have been documented, but questions about the

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WhoWhatWhy

• The Possible Housing Opportunity Provided by COVID-19

  Reading Time: 9 minutes The coronavirus puts a strain on an already fraying housing market. With no relief

• Global Warming Shrinks Bird Breeding Windows, Potentially Threatening

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Breonna Taylor and the Broad Search Standard ; Wounds of Dutch History ; and More

• Notes from a Coronavirus Contact Tracer

  Reading Time: 14 minutes Tell me whom you infected. Three months working as a COVID-19 contact tracer

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Science Blog

• Feeling global warming’s impacts: Agriculture among concerns affected

  With each passing year there appears to be more and more pressure put on farmers to feed an ever-expanding

• California ports poised to get cleaner, greener with new state rule

  The below Aug. 27, 2020 press release is from the California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources

• An Outbreak of Flooding

  Struggling beneath the weightof accumulation you bucklein the rains;a surplus of backwashbaptising you with

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Raw Story

• WATCH: Trump refuses to comment on supporter charged with murdering

  Days after one of his supporters allegedly murdered two Black Lives Matter protesters with an AR-style

• Trump wanted ‘tanks and choppers’ for inauguration — reportedly gave order

  President Donald Trump wanted his inauguration to be a show of might, according to a new tell-all book

• Pelosi urged to ‘DO SOMETHING’ to stop Russia cover-up: ‘We’re past the

  The Trump administration on Saturday told Congress that the intelligence community would no longer provide

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Children’s Bullying Behaviour Impacts Teacher And Parent Wellbeing

• New study uncovers more causes of coral bleaching

  Increased nutrients in the ocean can accelerate coral bleaching caused by high sea temperatures, according

• Dr Judy Lawrence: Mind The Gap: From Emissions To Adaptation - Cautionary

  The debate over Climate Change is easing. With more general acceptance of this it is time to move on to

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The Science of Doom

• Models and Rainfall – VII – Australia CanESM2, CSIRO, Miroc and MRI RCP4.5

  In VI – Australia CanESM2, CSIRO, Miroc and MRI compared vs history we looked at how each model thought

• Models and Rainfall – VI – Australia CanESM2, CSIRO, Miroc and MRI compared

  In V – CanESM2, CSIRO, Miroc and MRI compared we compared four models among themselves for two future

• Models and Rainfall – V – CanESM2, CSIRO, Miroc and MRI compared

  In the last article we looked at a comparison between Miroc (Japanese climate mode) and MPI (German climate

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Seeing the Forest

• Right Before Our Eyes

  Storm troopers in the cities? A Trumpian takeover of democracy? The question isn’t if this is what

• Trade and Jobs and A Better Life

  Breitbart used some of my stuff about trade in 2016, quoting it out of context, and got it wrong. Trumpers

• MMT Explains What Governments Can Do. It Is Not A Proposal.

  This post originally appeared at We CAN Have Nice Things. At Business Insider, Jim Edwards and Theron

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The Slog

• COVID19: only deadly as an instrument of unregulated propaganda

  In what is being widely seen (by me) as a miracle up there with Red Sea partings and […]

• Doris offers more Jobsdone comfort

  I’m delighted to be asked by Mr Slog (after only minimal badgering by my good self) to write […

• QUESTION: Has human independence left the theatre?

  I’ve spent much of the last two days wrestling with people who become twitchy and anxious in the

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Top Documentary Films

• The Spanish Flu: How the World Recovered

• Abstract: The Art of Design

• The Secret of Mona Lisa

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Universe Today

• SpaceX is Going to Hop Starship Again This Weekend

  SpaceX has a busy weekend ahead with three missions scheduled for Sunday, including a 150 m hop test with

• Supernova Wreckage is Still Expanding at Extreme Speeds After 400 Years

  The gas and dust cast off by a supernova explosion keeps moving at a high speed for centuries. The post

• Astronomers find 100 brown dwarfs in our neighborhood

  Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard

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Front Line Whistleblower News

• Nursing Home Retaliates Against Nurses Who Reported Botched COVID-19

  A Massachusetts nursing home fired one nurse and banned another from the premises after they spoke to

• Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Designating July 30 National

  Today, the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating July 30, 2020, as “National

• Combatting Anti-Corruption in Ukraine

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognized the recent efforts of the Ukraine government to fight

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Andy Worthington

• The State of London: Marking 120 Days of My London Lockdown Photos with

  An article marking 120 unbroken days in which I've been taking photos on daily bike rides throughout

• If Elected in November, Will Joe Biden Close Guantánamo?

  I look at what we might expect if Joe Biden beats Donald Trump in November's Presidential Election

• “I Can’t Breathe”: Afghan Prisoner Asadullah Haroon Gul on Black Lives

  A cross-post, with my own introduction, of an article about Black Lives Matter and Guantánamo, published in

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