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Sharyl Attkisson

• POLL: Majority of all demographic groups say voter ID requirement is

  A majority of each measured demographic group, 66% overall, says requiring photo ID to vote is a reasonable

• Supreme Court to decide if schools can regulate off-campus student speech

  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case addressing whether a school board can suspend a student

• Vaccine execs: Covid-19 immunity from Pfizer-BioNTech & Moderna vaccines

  As reported on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson earlier this year, the RNA versions of Covid-19 "

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BlackListed News

• "Biden's Trillions" Spark Historic Labor Shortage: Record 42%

  Last week we made a remarkable observation: despite some 100 million Americans not in the labor force (of

• Hong Kong billionaire and newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 12 months in

  A prominent businessman and media tycoon has been jailed for one year by Chinese authorities for organizing

• The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.

  Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence

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naked capitalism

• Links 4/17/2021

• Applications for New Businesses Have a Double-WTF Moment

  Federal data says new businesses are being formed in droves. But PPP fraud complicates this otherwise

• Welcome to the Age of Hysteria

  Hysteria was removed from the DSM as a disorder in the 1980s, apparenlty making it safe as the business

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NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

• Radical Eyes for Equity: The Crumbling Facade of “No Excuses” and

  Radical Eyes for Equity: The Crumbling Facade of “No Excuses” and Educational Racism Sarah

• Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Testing During a Pandemic is Stupid. And

  Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Testing During a Pandemic is Stupid. And Cruel. When the

• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching Then and Now Most

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Energy

• Texas power company seeks bankruptcy protection after storm

  The largest and oldest power cooperative in Texas is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing

• Oil powers ahead as critical OPEC+ meeting looms

  Oil rebounded from its biggest slump since November ahead of a key OPEC+ meeting.

• Vistra expects a hit of up to $1.3 billion to its earnings due to winter

  Vistra, which posted a $625 million profit, said it spent more than $10 million to prepare its power plants

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Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories

• Border fiasco spurs a blame game inside Biden world

  “It’s been a steep learning curve" for Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, said one senior administration

• ‘Broken promise’: Biden’s backtrack on refugees still slammed by advocates

  Democrats were up in arms over the White House’s refugee policy. The administration’s attempt to clarify

• Newsom recall deflates progressive dreams

  The Democratic governor faces an unexpected balancing act in his third year in office.

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Navajo Times

• In numbers: Tracking 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

• Grassroots effort provides solar power to 12 off-grid HPL homes

  Working around the clock using the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds, Navajo Tribal

• What’s in a name? When it comes to uranium waste, about $249M

  It was unprecedented when in 1979 a breach in a holding pond at United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock

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Ancient Code

• Opening Up a Can of Wormholes into Unexplained Phenomena

  Wormholes could be real, and humans could travel through them, as shared by mainstream Popular

• Massive Lava Tubes on Mars and the Moon Could Shelter Astronauts

  Lava tubes on Mars could provide shelter for astronauts, according to a new study. Earlier studies have

• The Waubonsie Stone in Chicago: An Ancient Altar for Sacrificing Babies?

  Chicago is home to a 3000-pound red granite boulder with a strange face carved on it. It’s called the

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DutchNews.nl

• Classic boat owners fear being barged out of Amsterdam canals by tourist

  In one blow, Nico Bax will see the Classic Boat Dinners business he built up over 15 years go up...

• Fine for breaking quarantine rules will be €435, and that means a criminal

  Travellers who ignore coronavirus quarantine rules when they arrive in the Netherlands from a risky country

• Fieldlab experiments are ‘a fantastic investment’, minister says

  Caretaker health minister Hugo de Jonge has refuted all criticism of the upcoming Fieldlab events, calling

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BleepingComputer

• Twitter is suffering from another worldwide outage today

  Twitter is suffering a worldwide outage that started last night and is continuing into Saturday morning

• Microsoft fixes Windows 10 bug that can corrupt NTFS drives

  Microsoft has fixed a bug that could allow a threat actor to create specially crafted downloads that crash

• Ryuk ransomware operation updates hacking techniques

  Recent attacks from Ryuk ransomware operators show that the actors have a new preference when it comes to

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Accuracy In Academia

• Cancel Culture targeted Virginia Medical Student

  Last month, I wrote about a freedom of speech case dealing with a student who was reprimanded by his

• West Virginia scores major victory over teachers’ unions

  Over the weekend, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed the Hope Scholarship program into law marking a

• Florda, DeSantis lead the way with ‘Get There Faster’ initiative

  This week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled the “Get There Faster” initiative, which aims to address

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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

• OCHA: Israel demolished 20 Palestinian homes in two weeks

  Days of Palestine – Jerusalem – A UN report said that the Israeli occupation authorities

• PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied

  Summary for April 08 – 14, 2021 Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

• Israeli Army Bombards Gaza

  The Israeli army fired, shortly after midnight, several artillery shells, and missiles into a few sites in

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BBC News - Home

• Prince Philip: Royal Family honours duke's 'humour and humanity'

  The funeral congregation was socially distanced, with the Queen seated alone, because of Covid rules.

• Covid-19 deaths pass three million worldwide

  It comes as the World Health Organization warns of deaths and cases increasing at a "worrying rate

• Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country

  Key maps and charts explaining how the virus has spread around the world.

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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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CBPP Comprehensive Reports and Blog Posts

• In Case You Missed It...

  This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget and taxes, housing, health, food assistance, state

• American Rescue Plan Act Provides Critical, Permanent Tax Relief to Puerto

  The Act extends the Child Tax Credit to families of all sizes in Puerto Rico and provides funding to

• States Are Using Much-Needed Temporary Flexibility in SNAP to Respond to

  SNAP is essential to helping low-income households put food on the table.

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Coyote Blog

• Quote of the Day on US Media Practices

  From Glen Greenwald Twice in the last year, I have written about this bizarre practice where media outlets 

• 2020 Should Have Been The Year We Demanded Reform of the FDA and CDC, But

  Many of the early failings in COVID response can be laid right at the doorstep of the CDC and FDA

• Prediction: Feds Will Be About The Last Government Entity To Drop Their

  Joe Biden is kind of stuck on COVID.  He campaigned on all the things Trump did wrong in his COVID response

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Dandelion Salad

• Chris Hedges: We Must Build A New Party

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges The People’s Party on Apr 8, 2021 The People’s Podcast host Nick

• Visionary Inspiration and Practical Strategies for Direct Democracy: Winds

  Sent to Dandelion Salad by Rivera Sun by Marissa Mommaerts Transition US National Network Organizer

• Abby Martin: Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism’s Pearl of Africa

  Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin Empire Files on Apr 11, 2021 Short documentary on Uganda’s US-backed

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Fabius Maximus website

• Nazis Take Over America and Establish a New Reich

  With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America’s most powerful corporations have launched a new

• Nazism Ascended and America Defeated; Triumph of the Will

  Nazis have lurked among us for decades, unnoticed and without restraint as they diligently worked toward a 

Inter Press Service

• Colombia Gives Nearly 1 Million Venezuelan Migrants Legal Status and Right

  Colombia will grant legal status to all Venezuelan migrants who fled there since 2016 to escape their

• Trafficking Survivor & Son Born of Rape Face Daily Discrimination Upon

  In this video Sam Olukoya interviews a young woman who was trafficked from her home in Nigeria after

• World Moving Towards a “Devastating Marriage” of Artificial Intelligence &

  The writer is Founder of the Faces of Democracy initiative & Faces of Peace initiative. The post

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INTERNATIONALIST 360°

• Colombia: An Ideal U.S. Client-State in the Western Hemisphere

  Angelo Cardona Funeral of slain guerrilla fighter, one of many victims of Colombia’s long civil war

• Why Xinjiang is Emerging as the Epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China

  Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong Map showing the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region On March 22, 2021, U.S

• Peru: “With Pedro Castillo We Will Return Power to the People”

  Carlos Aznarez In this interview we speak with Guido Bellido Ugarte, congressman-elect for Cusco, closely

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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

• UK: Prince Philip to have solemn, yet restricted, funeral due to pandemic

  The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, will have a funeral with bands and a military

• Argentine President Fernández sticks to restrictive measures and clashes

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday stood by his decision to shut down all

• Uruguayan President seizes Pfizer vaccines Argentine neglected, press

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou successfully carried out a personal

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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News

• Douglass Township planners begin working on new wind ordinance #MI

  DOUGLASS TOWNSHIP – The Douglass Township Planning Commission began the lengthy process of creating a

• Parteen turbine in situ despite order #IRL

  Frustration is growing among Parteen residents over the failure to remove a controversial wind turbine

• NJ, wind-farm developer push for smaller wind-energy area off Hamptons #NJ

  A top New Jersey utility official and a wind-farm developer on Friday raised objection to the idea that

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www.thenewfederalist.eu

• The rise of Islamophobia in Denmark

  Islamophobia has become a polarising topic in recent years. Often intertwining with narratives and policies

• The Bulletin, Vol.1 Issue 19

  - Newsletter

• Can the Czech Health Minister Have His Cake and Eat It Too?

  A week ago, the Czech Republic names its fourth Health Minister in seven months, amidst the lowest COVID-19

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Big Picture News, Informed Analysis

• This Blog Will Return May 12th

  Currently busy with other assignments.

• Reckless Journalism & the Uphill Battle to Correct the Record

  Rather than behaving responsibly during a moment of crisis, the New York Times printed inflammatory

• US Senator to Facebook: Kill Free Speech Now

  Intelligence Committee chairman targets private companies.

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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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Signs of the Times

• Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, steal land with impunity. Imagine the

  Every aspect of their existence on occupied Palestinian land is illegal. Still, the violence perpetrated by

• FM spokeswoman Zakharova: US state-run RFERL 'knowingly violated'

  The US state-funded outlet RFERL deliberately ignored Russia "foreign agents" law, turning its

• Unlikely Twitter war: Steak-umm vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Neil deGrasse Tyson may be the world's most popular science communicator. But on Twitter, he's the

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Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• From bin to box plant: the journey of a recycled newspaper

  Every day, up to 38,000 copies of The Dominion Post are read and thrown away. But what happens after that?

• Wellington City Missioner Murray Edridge says role has 'value and

  “I’m just having fun every day and I feel really privileged that I can make a difference and create hope

• Young actor on the up with Wellington season

  Lily Harper brings her life experience to the role of a young woman with Down syndrome moving out of home.

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Freethought Blogs

• Answers in Genesis is bad Christianity

  Several years ago, Terry Mortenson spoke at a church here in Morris, and I attended along with several

• The ‘Trump made me do it’ defense is not working

  As the trials start to unfold for those who took part in the January 6th insurrection, we see the various

• The ugly history of anti-Asian racism

  Samantha Bee walks us through the ugly history of anti-Asian racism in the US. Part 1: Part 2: Trump

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