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Zelo Street

• Bozo Not Like Trump? OH YES HE IS

  As the horror at Wednesday’s acts of violent insurrection in Washington, DC has turned to anger at the

• Trump Insurrection - Next Stop UK

  The seat of US democracy barricaded, invaded, stormed, ransacked: the Capitol was, yesterday afternoon

• BBC - Stop Platforming Covidiots

  Yesterday, we learnt not only that a national lockdown would not be lifted until the middle of February

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Politics : NPR

• After Capitol Riot Backlash, Sen. Josh Hawley's Book Will Hit Shelves

  "We're proud to publish Mr. Hawley's book, which his original publisher has made more

• A Look At Biden's Life And Political Career

  NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Evan Osnos of The New Yorker , who wrote President-elect Joe Biden's

• How Biden Administration May Address Domestic Extremism

  NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mary McCord, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Caretaker vacancy on one of Ireland’s most remote islands up for grabs

  Last year more than 40,000 applications were made for caretaker jobs on the remote Great Blasket Island

• Sex And The City is coming back: The style lessons we learned from the

  The reboot – And Just Like That… – won’t feature Samantha.

• 5 reasons to finally give up make-up wipes

  Take the plunge – for your skin and the environment.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Teachers' union urges Government rethink on school reopening plan

  In-class learning is set to resume on Thursday as part of a phased reopening of schools.

• Older people should exercise regularly ahead of Covid-19 vaccination, study

  Regular aerobic or moderate exercise prior to vaccination can help improve antibody responses in older

• Stalemate over Troubles victims’ pension funding goes on

  Conor Murphy said the Northern Ireland Secretary has refused to meet ministers from the Stormont Executive

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memeorandum

• Proclamation Terminating Restrictions on Entry of Certain Travelers from

  Donald J. Trump / The White House : Proclamation Terminating Restrictions on Entry of Certain Travelers

• 2 Champaign County residents held on federal charges tied to Capitol riot (

  Jen BaldufThomas GnauKristen Spicker / springfield-news-sun : 2 Champaign County residents held on

• What today's Second Amendment activists forget: The right to not bear

  Saul Cornell / Washington Post : What today's Second Amendment activists forget: The right to not

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The Hayride

• CROUERE: The Purge Is Here

  In recent years, most Americans refer to The Purge as a television and movie series, that depicts the

• APPEL: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  Through a reinterpretation of the original meaning of the poet, l believe that these prophetic words may be

• Quote Of The Day, January 11, 2021

  “We are living through the total institutional collapse of the West at this very moment. People are

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Introducing the new Director of the Ottawa Office, Erika Shaker

  Many of you know me already. And over my years at the CCPA I’ve been so lucky to have gotten to know so

• The Power of Good Ideas: 2020 in Review

  When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we asked where we could be the most helpful. Then we rolled up our sleeves

• Community rises to the COVID challenges in Winnipeg's inner city

  For sixteen years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba office has walked alongside

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Times of India

• Farmers protest shouldn't become replica of Tablighi meet: Supreme

• Farm unions will understand the idea behind laws: Narendra Tomar

• India’s GDP set to drop 7.7%, biggest contraction since 1952

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

• Spiritual Guru moves SC for custody of disciple from her parents

• What policy framework decides public holiday, asks SC

• Ahead of polls, EPS, Amit Shah talk on Tamil Nadu alliance

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Wage freeze, tax hikes or borrowing - how will Treasury '

  President Cyril Ramaphosa says Treasury will see to it that the country can afford vaccines, but with a

• News24.com | LIVE | Follow our reporters' analysis, comments as Mkhize,

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

• News24.com | Krisp gets R25m to complete sequencing of 10 000 SARS-CoV-2

  Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande has announced that R25 million will be

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | William Gumede | Manageable inflation and sustainable exchange

  Developing countries often pursue persistent deficit spending which, over time, balloons into large

• News24.com | ANALYSIS | QAnon and the storming of the U.S. Capitol: The

  Donald Trump's claims that the November presidential election was rigged has mirrored and fed

• News24.com | OPINION | Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Lindiwe Sisulu and

  Systemic suppression of women in the ANC undermines Thomas Sankara's revolutionary ideals on women'

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine's campaign staff held

  KAMPALA, Jan 8 - Dozens of campaign staff working for Bobi Wine, Uganda's leading opposition candidate

• News24.com | Senegal reports H5N1 bird flu outbreak on poultry farm

  Senegal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World

• News24.com | Seychelles to begin Covid-19 vaccination with Chinese drug

  The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles will on Sunday be among the first African nations to begin

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• North Korea holds huge military parade as Kim vows nuclear might

  The leader took centre stage to celebrate a major ruling party meeting in which he pledged maximum efforts

• Bus left dangling from overpass after New York crash

  Eight passengers and the driver were taken to hospital after the incident in the Bronx.

• Travellers from South America banned from UK amid fears over new Covid

  Transport secretary Grant Shapps says it is a ‘precautionary’ measure

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WebMD Health

CDC: New COVID Strain May Dominate U.S. by March

• CDC modeling indicates the variant could account for a majority of COVID cases in the U.S. in March

Emotional Support Animals for MS

• Emotional support animals are more than just pets. If you have multiple sclerosis, they can provide

Does MS Affect Your Life Expectancy?

• Can multiple sclerosis affect how long you live? Does the type you have make a difference? Learn more about

WhoWhatWhy

Did We Just Witness Our Fort Sumter?

• Reading Time: 20 minutes Is secession the only option left for a divided America? A reprise of our

Trump Extremists Emboldened by Lack of Crackdown

• Reading Time: 4 minutes Warning signs were ignored in the days leading up to the Capitol Hill insurrection

‘Shifting Baselines’ Are Changing What Normal Climate Means

• Reading Time: 3 minutes Mob Attack on US Capitol Dominates Overseas News, Unnerves World ; Big Pharma Is

Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism

• White House chief usher doesn't want to go back to Trump Hotel after

  One White House aide is uninterested in returning to work for Donald Trump in the private sector after Joe

• Wyoming official considering Texas scheme to secede to form confederacy of

  On Monday, the Washington Examiner reported that the chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party floated the

• Trump tried to lift COVID restrictions — but Biden transition shut it down

  During his final hours in office, Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation decreasing coronavirus

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Active Front To Usher In A Cool Change This Week

  MetService is forecasting an active front to sweep across Aotearoa this week, bringing heavy rain to

• COVID-19 Emerging Variants – Expert Reaction

  The global community is rushing to respond to new variants of the novel coronavirus, which appear to spread

• NIWA's Hotspot Watch

  A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry

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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

• Republicans Will Escalate Until They Face Consequences

  Republicans will escalate until they face consequences. Ford pardoned Nixon, Reagan picked up where Nixon

• Dems Getting Things Back To Normal

  Looks like Biden and Dem leadership are ready to get things back to normal. Back to normal means back to

• On “Speaking Fees,” Biden and Yellen

  In the 90s there was a scandal about “buckraking,” where journalists were reporting positively

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The Slog

• At the End of the Day

  We are at a turning point in the creation of a resistance to the wholesale destruction of our […]

• BRACE FOR IMPACT

  The Blob is all droit du seigneur and no noblesse oblige.

• THE SUNDAY ESSAY: why it’s time we moved on from critiques of one

  “Draw the bow but don’t shoot — it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be […]

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Top Documentary Films

• Futurama Retrospective

• Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

• Like, Date, Delete: Love and Sex in the Internet Age

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Universe Today

• Planets are Finally Being Discovered Orbiting Farther From Their Stars

  We don't know much about exoplanets with long orbital periods, but we're starting to learn. The

• Here’s the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope

  In the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new

• A New Satellite Is Going to Try to Maintain Low Earth Orbit Without Any

  Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard.  Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number

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Whistleblower Network News

• SEC Awards Over $1.1 to Five Whistleblowers – Nears Fiscal Year Record for

  On January 7, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued over $1.1 million in whistleblower

• Texas-Based Heart Hospital Agrees To $48 Million Settlement For Alleged

  On December 18, Texas Heart Hospital of the Southwest LLP and its subsidiary THHBP Management Company, LLC

• Chinese Journalist Receives 4 Year Prison Sentence for Reporting on

  A Chinese journalist was sentenced to 4 years in prison for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in

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Andy Worthington

• As UK Judge Denies Julian Assange Bail, It’s Time for Joe Biden to Drop the

  As Judge Vanessa Baraitser denies bail to Julian Assange, I point out how necessary it is for the incoming

• Judge Refuses to Allow WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange’s Extradition to

  My response to the totally unexpected ruling today by Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who refused to approve

• Radio: I Discuss London’s Housing Crisis and Covid’s Impact on Business

  Here's a link to, and my detailed description of a recent interview I undertook with Andy Bungay for

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