24 December - My Yahoo! - 1 of 2

 Sharyl Attkisson

• WATCH: The fate of the airline industry still up in the air

  In the early months of the Covid pandemic, the airlines claimed to be on the brink of collapse. Then the

• CDC: More than 5,000 COVID-19 vaccine recipients have reportedly suffered &

  All of the data in this post is from CDC, FDA, Moderna and Pfizer. Moderna reports significantly higher

• The tortured legal story of now-pardoned Blackwater's Raven 23: Nick

  In September 2018, I reported on the tortured legal history behind the prosecution of Nick Slatten and the

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BlackListed News

• The Great Mutation - Behold The Dawning Of The Age Of Aquarius

  Aquarius starts just as some dodgy, self-important elites gear up to impose a Great Reset on most of the

• British Government Contracts Firms To Make COVID ‘Freedom Passports’

  The British government has contracted two firms to develop COIVD ‘freedom passports’, that would be used to

• Here Is How Hunter Biden Allegedly Traded On Family Name, Influence To Make

  Just days after outgoing AG William Barr said there is "no need" to appoint a special counsel to

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naked capitalism

• 2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Eve 2020

  ~ Today's Water Cooler ~

• Links 12/24/2020

• A Mini-Tour of Christmas/Holiday Feasts and Traditions

  Christmas traditions vary considerably. What are the ones in your part of the world like?

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NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

• Ed in the Apple: Education in a Biden Presidency in a Deeply Divided Nation

  Ed in the Apple: Education in a Biden Presidency in a Deeply Divided Nation: What Can We Expect

• Curmudgucation: FL: Big Brother Is Watching Your Child

  Curmudgucation: FL: Big Brother Is Watching Your Child Eyebrows shot up around the country

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Researcher Says Law Hiding Fiscal Effects of

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Researcher Says Law Hiding Fiscal Effects of ‘Tax-Credit Vouchers’ from

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Energy

• Oil drops on stockpiles rise, Fed warns of Covid risk

  Oil dropped after an unexpected increase in U.S. stockpiles and a Federal Reserve warning that a vaccine

• OPEC+ focuses on delay to output hike of three to six months

  Talks between OPEC and its allies are zeroing in on a delay to next year’s planned oil-output increase of

• Covid restaurant shutdowns threaten oil refiners’ biofuel dreams

  As oil refiners face an uncertain future for fossil fuels, many are investing millions to convert

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Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories

• Snowden allies see opening amid Trump clemency blitz

  Republican members of Congress who have spoken with the president recently view him as increasingly

• Congress scrambles to avert shutdown after Trump’s stimulus demands

  House Republicans broke with the president over providing $2,000 in stimulus checks to Americans.

• Congress sends Covid package and spending measure to Trump

  The president has thrown the fate of the bill into jeopardy.

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Navajo Times

• In numbers: COVID-19 Across the Navajo Nation

  View the latest charts and a map showing the extent of the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation. The post In

• Lizer criticized for ‘China virus’ comment

  Vice President Myron Lizer called COVID-19 the “China virus” during a virtual town hall meeting on Thursday

• 3,900 vaccine doses expected Monday

  The Navajo Nation will be receiving 3,900 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Monday and 7,800 Moderna vaccines

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Ancient Code

• Did a ‘Galactic Federation’ Ask Trump Not To Reveal Extraterrestrials?

  Does a Galactic Federation of aliens truly exist? An Israeli space security chief who led the country’

• Scientists On How Trees Talk Through an Ancient ‘Otherworld’ Network

  Trees talk to each other deep underground. It’s an idea still relatively new to science but familiar

• Astrophysicist on Likely Outcome if a Time Traveler Tried to Stop COVID-19

  Is it possible for a time traveler to change the past? If so, it appears the universe might have some

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DutchNews.nl

• Theo Hiddema ready to return as FVD candidate a month after quitting as MP

  Theo Hiddema, who quit parliament in the wake of the bitter infighting that engulfed Forum voor Democratie

• Ajax’s lead cut to one point ahead of clash with PSV after winter break

  Ajax go into the Christmas break with a lead of just one point in the Eredivisie after they could only...

• Dutch bank can close accidental American’s account, court says

  Dutch banks are required to cooperate with US and Dutch law on taxation, and can, therefore, close the

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BleepingComputer

• Windows zero-day with bad patch gets new public exploit code

  Back in June, Microsoft released a fix for a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that enabled

• Microsoft 365 admins can now get security incident email alerts

  Microsoft has added support for security incident email notifications to the Microsoft 365 Defender

• UK privacy watchdog warns SolarWinds victims to report data breaches

  United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned organizations that fell victim

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Accuracy In Academia

• University of Vermont announces elimination of 27 programs

  The University of Vermont, located in Burlington, announced to faculty and staff members that it will slash

• Marquette University faculty opposes budget cuts

  The Marquette University faculty wrote two open letters criticizing the university administration’s

• Pandemic leads to spike in law and medical school applications

  With so much economic uncertainty surrounding the national economy, the job market, and the workforce these

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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

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

• Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians, Cause Damage To One Home, In Kufur

  Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, several Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur

• Israeli Soldiers Abducted 413 Palestinians, Including 49 Children, In

  A report issued by several human rights and information centers groups in occupied Palestine stated that

• Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinian Homes Near Hebron

  A group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday night after midnight, several

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BBC News - Home

• Brexit: EU diplomats to get trade deal briefing

  MPs are waiting to see the full text of the agreement ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.

• Covid: Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica begin mass vaccination

  Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica become the first countries on the continent to begin vaccination campaigns.

• Black US doctor dies of Covid alleging racist hospital care

  The 52-year-old doctor wrote in a post from her hospital bed that she had to "beg" for treatment.

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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

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RSS Feed

• Time…it marches on

  More of my latest meanderings: Egalitarian “hetero” relationships don’t need to look like

• I AM WHAT I AM

  Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt

• Words

  Trust your exhaustion. Take a rest. A nap. STOP. It’s okay. It’s good to listen to the body. **

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Center on Budget: Comprehensive News Feed

• In Case You Missed It...

  This week at CBPP, we focused on health, state budgets and taxes, housing, the economy

• Preventing Spike in Evictions Will Help Limit COVID-19’s Spread

  If federal policymakers don’t extend a national eviction moratorium — like the one from the

• Wave of Evictions Nears as Moratorium Set to Expire

  December 10, 2020: We've updated this blog.

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Coyote Blog

• I Am Still Here, Just Busy

  I am completing what is for me a large and complicated acquisition/merger that we have been working on all

• "Work From Home & Socialize via Zoom" Is the Height of Elite

  I have been pointing out since April that stay at home orders tend to be supported by folks who either a

• Coyoteblog Finally Has SSL/HTTPS

  After a few false starts, and prodding from several readers, I finally got this creaky 16-year-old blog

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Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges: Wrecking the Left

  with Chris Hedges Dandelion Salad RT America on Dec 12, 2020 On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to

• Abby Martin: Why has Venezuela been in the Crosshairs of the US Empire for

  Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin Empire Files on Dec 10, 2020 Was the Venezuelan election rigged? Abby

• America’s Sick Priorities, by Finian Cunningham

  by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad Ireland Crossposted from Sputnik December 10, 2020 The US

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Inter Press Service

• Reflecting Back and Imagining Forward

  What a challenging year 2020 has been! A year of living dangerously – “Tahun vivere pericoloso”- perhaps

• Ten Defining Moments for Women in 2020

  While 2020 will be remembered most for the way COVID-19 changed our lives in nearly every way and in every

• Food Culture in Spotlight on UNESCO Heritage List

  Cuisine formed a notable portion of the latest inscriptions on UNESCO’s Representative List of the

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INTERNATIONALIST 360°

• Venezuela: Hilarious Headlines Reveal Hypocrisy of US Regime-Change

  Steve Lalla Whereas the US political process has demonstrated all the solemnity of a Hollywood reality show

• African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

  Christina Davidson From the outside looking in, there has always been at least two meanings of Haiti

• Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter?

  Ajamu Baraka Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars

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New Content on CO2 Science

• Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo

  It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it

• Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary

  Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a

• Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England

  Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

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MercoPress

• A year that will go down in Falklands history

  For many people, 2020 has been a year they would like to forget. But it’s a year

• Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses

  Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial

• Argentina lockdown until 8 January

  Argentina established new requirements for entering and leaving the country

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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News

• Packer Twp. zoners deny wind farm #PA

  Zoning to allow a large windmill farm atop the Broad Mountain in Packer Twp. was denied Tuesday afternoon

• System of multimillion-pound wind farm payments ‘just beggars belief’ says

  A far north campaigner has said it “beggars belief” that millions of pounds continue to be

• Emergency work at site of peat slide substantially completed #IRL #NIR

  Emergency work to prevent further environmental damage following November’s huge peat slide at the

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www.thenewfederalist.eu

• Poland, Parliament, and Practicality

  After the near-total practical ban on abortion in Poland, the European Parliament has spoken up. Anti

• A digital euro: the European Central Bank picks up on accelerated

  The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a public consultation to decide whether to set in motion the ‘

• The enemy within? Article 259 and the Union's intergovernmentalism

  The developments witnessed throughout the past few weeks point towards an increasingly likely possibility:

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Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

• Vaccines & Informed Consent

  Adverse reactions to a 2009 swine flu vaccine profoundly harmed a small minority of those who received it.

• Climate Activism: How Democracy Dies

  Last chance to buy tickets to this online event. 40 minutes, followed by a live Q&A.

• Checking Your Blood Oxygen

  Consider adding an oximeter to your pandemic medicine cabinet.

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Online Cancer Blog

• The Survival Rate of Each Lung Cancer Stage

  We all know that there are many stages of lung cancer and you might be wondering how each stage is like and

• Chocolates Help Fight Cancer- Myth or Truth?

  How amazing (and difficult) is it to love something that is also supposed to do you a world of good

• Top 6 Symptoms That Indicate Breast Cancer

  Cancer is one of the fastest growing cause of deaths in the world. The most common type of cancer include &

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lborkowski

• Worth reading: Segregation, sexual harassment, and silencing scientists

  Worth reading: Segregation, sexual harassment, and silencing scientists A few of the recent

• It's October. What's Congress doing about healthcare?

  It's October. What's Congress doing about healthcare? We made it to October without

• More reasons to oppose the latest awful iteration of GOPcare

  More reasons to oppose the latest awful iteration of GOPcare Many of us were cheered by

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Signs of the Times

• Cancel culture win: Authors of article on female vs male mentorship have

  In a muted way, the authors make clear that they do stand behind their findings: In a retraction notice

• Papers, please! NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio will be sending police to hotels

  Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city will be sending sheriff's deputies to

• 'Fascist': Michigan AG Dana Nessel threatens lawyer who released

  Constitutional Attorney Matthew DePerno is an American hero. Two weeks ago, Michigan 13th Circuit Court

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Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• Corrections conducting review after paedophile placed near Wellington

  Case of paedophile housed near Wellington school leads to Corrections to review processes.

• A big hallelujah for the NZSO's rendition of Handel's Messiah

  Max Rashbooke reviews the NZSO performance.

• Gang members robbing and assaulting people using online app to buy drugs

  A man received head injuries after being hit with a metal weapon during a cannabis deal in central

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Freethought Blogs

• Schematic of Reason

  To understand an ideology we need to break down its mode of thought.  This mode of thought is not formal

• Rugby and soccer players also have brain injuries

  The evidence of damage done to the brains of American football players continues to pile up. So far, not

• The Martian Odyssey concludes

  The Bolingbrook Babbler has the final episode of our story chain, and it’s epic! I did the first link

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