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Sharyl Attkisson

• SURVEY: Doctors specializing in Infectious Diseases spend the most time on

  Doctors in the speciality of Infectious Diseases spend the most time on "paperwork and administration.

• (READ) Taxpayer-guaranteed annual income for families will be a 2022

  The following is a news analysis: Two recent stimulus measures sent residents earning up to $75,000 a year

• America's Water Wars (PODCAST)

  Is water becoming a commodity like oil to be controlled by Wall Street firms and hedge funds?

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BlackListed News

• Top US Banks Deploy AI Surveillance To Monitor Customers, Workers

  Several US banks have employed AI surveillance systems as a big-brother-type instrument to analyze customer

• Confirmation of top Biden scientist delayed over ties to Jeffrey Epstein

  President Biden’s choice for his top science adviser is facing an uphill confirmation battle in Washington

• 'I Did Not Want To Go Through Rioting And Destruction Again'

  An alternate juror on the Derek Chauvin trial told a local news that she "did not want to go through

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naked capitalism

• Links 4/24/2021

• The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing

  The Covid nightmare in India won't end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing

• From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network

  "Caring economy" sounds awfully soft and fuzzy. However, it may finally be time to reject

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NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

• 10th Period: Let's Talk Charter Schools

  10th Period: Let's Talk Charter Schools Let's discuss charter schools -- a topic you&

• Yong Zhao: New Article: Build Back Better: Avoid the Learning Loss Trap

  Yong Zhao: New Article: Build Back Better: Avoid the Learning Loss Trap My  article  B uild

• Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers

  Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers For the past ten years public education has

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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

• Biden recognizes Armenian genocide

  “The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide,” the president said in a

• Biden faces health industry fight over new ‘surprise’ billing ban

  There's a lobbying war over how HHS implements new protections shielding patients from large

• Why California's 2021 recall isn't the same as the 2003 version

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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

• Legislation to reopen tribal parks floated

  This new legislation to reopen of the Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

• Guest Column: We are simply five-fingered human beings

  This Earth Day we stand on the brink of emergence into a new, post-pandemic world. The post Guest Column

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Ancient Code

• Venomous Humans Could Evolve Due to Common Ancestor with Reptiles

  Scientists have learned that venomous humans could one day become real. The headline elicits the

• 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

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DutchNews.nl

• Slight drop in coronavirus cases as hospitals warn ‘code black’ looms

  A further 9,292 new coronavirus cases were reported to public health institute RIVM in the 24 hours to

• Highest ever number of euthanasia procedures in 2020

  There were more euthanasia procedures than ever before in 2020, according to a new report. The RTE Regional

• Best case scenario: tourists to Amsterdam around half of 2019 peak this

  Amsterdam expects tourist numbers this year to be around half of the levels in 2019 and, in the worst-case

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BleepingComputer

• HashiCorp is the latest victim of Codecov supply-chain attack

  Open-source software tools and Vault maker HashiCorp has disclosed a security incident that occurred due to

• The Week in Ransomware - April 23rd 2021 - A brutal week

  This week has been brutal, not because of many ransomware variants released but due to a single ransomware

• Passwordstate password manager hacked in supply chain attack

  Click Studios, the company behind the Passwordstate password manager, notified customers that attackers

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Accuracy In Academia

• Stanford University plays the race card after Atlanta spa shooting

  In the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings, the families of 8 victims, six Asian and two white, were forced

• Social studies teacher calls for left-wing U.S. civics curriculum

  Left-wing U.S. civics education is gaining some momentum, according to a report from the Washington, D.C

• Higher education blasts voter integrity laws

  Several states, including Georgia, Texas, and Arizona are reforming their election and voter integrity laws

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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

• Israeli Soldiers Abduct 53 Palestinians In Jerusalem

  Israeli soldiers abducted, late on Thursday at night and on Friday at dawn, at least fifty-three

• Israeli Colonists Attack Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem

  Dozens of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, on Friday at dawn, many Palestinian homes, and

• Three Years After Killing Him, Soldiers Transfer Corpse Of Slain Teen To

  The Israeli authorities transferred, Thursday, the corpse of a Palestinian teen, who was killed by the army

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BBC News - Home

• India Covid surge: Hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered

  Patients are dying because of a lack of medical oxygen supplies, doctors warn.

• Indonesian submarine sank off Bali, navy says

  A scan detected the vessel at a depth of 850m, well below the survivable limit, the navy says.

• Biden says Armenian mass killing was genocide

  The statement by the US president drew an immediate rebuke from Turkey, which disputes the term.

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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 federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, health, food assistance, housing,

• Rescue Plan’s Expansions of Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit Will

  Rural communities — both nationally and in most states — will benefit disproportionately from the American

• Upcoming Recovery Legislation Can Make Lasting Progress Against Housing

  The recovery legislation that policymakers will craft in the coming month is a once-in-a-generation

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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

• An Easy Test of Whether Democrats Are Faking It, by David Swanson + Abby

  by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy April 23, 2021 When Democrats were handed the

• Ditch The Draft, Once and For All, by Rivera Sun

  by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad April 22, 2021 It’s outdated. It’s dysfunctional. It’s hated by most

• Chris Hedges: Brazil Politics: Crypto-fascism, Corruption, Democracy

  Dandelion Salad Note to DS readers and writers: having computer problems at the moment; nothing serious

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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

• Read the Newsletter Now!

  Read the Weekly Roundup for the highlights from the week(ish) and a roll call of spicy posts that you might

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Inter Press Service

• Youth Demand Action on Nature, Following IUCN’s First-Ever Global Youth

  Following almost two weeks of talks on issues such as climate change, innovation, marine conservation and

• Pathogens, Public Health, & Political Will: Why Sustained Leadership is

  The occasion of World Malaria Day amidst a global pandemic warrants an examination of the intersection

• One Year Later; No Justice for Victims of 2020 Mali Protests & Coup

  It has been about a year since anti-government demonstrations and a coup in Mali, which saw 18 people

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INTERNATIONALIST 360°

• Evo Morales’ Earth Day Message

  Kawsachun News President of Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism, Evo Morales, issued a message on the

• How Venezuela is Rebuilding its Industrial Base, One Volunteer at a Time

  Leonardo Flores Member of the Productive Workers Army (EPO) in the midst of a work day. Photo: EPO An

• Year One in the Fight Against Covid-19: A Conversation with Elisabeth Daza

  Cira Pascual Marquina Elisabeth Daza and José Mireles are frontline medical workers in Caracas. Daza is

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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

• Royal Navy takes bomb disposal experts to South Georgia to remove Falklands

  The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia

• Uruguay's Central Bank concerned about growth projections for 2021 in

  Uruguay's Central Bank Friday released its report for the first quarter of 2021

• Argentine Federal Police arrests two in Tucumán for planning attack against

  Two people were arrested Friday in the Argentine province of Tucumán when they were

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www.thenewfederalist.eu

• A Month After the Fidesz-EPP Split, What Comes Next?: The Domestic

  The question now centers on how the EPP departure will intersect with this broader domestic context, if at

• Editorial: A turbulent year for European democracy

  Since last year's edition of our Democracy Under Pressure feature, back in February 2020, the world has

• Parisian protests of Polish law: Interview with the Association for the

  This article is a translation of an interview conducted by The New Federalist's French partner webzine,

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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

• Gigantic ice drift invades city, nearly crushes passersby in Russia's

  Fortunately, the incident didn't cause any injuries or deaths, with its impact limited to waterfront

• Waterspouts spotted amid freaky weather in the Bahamas

  TORNADIC waterspouts were sighted across New Providence and other parts of The Bahamas yesterday

• Powerful storm rips roofs from buildings in Gaziantep, Turkey

  Storm demolished homes and ripped out trees in Turkey, Gaziantep. ----------------------------------------

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Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• Neville Sandiford's short but spectacular war

  World War II veteran enjoyed his "free trip" to England and is happy to be alive.

• NZ NBL: Wellington Saints go marching in on opening night against Otago

  Normal service has resumed, it seems, as perennial heavyweights return from a year off by dominating last

• Wellington bus lockout to end after court grants injunction against NZ Bus

  Bus drivers will be back behind the wheel on Sunday after court says lockout has to end, but NZ Bus says

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Freethought Blogs

• James Croft addresses the critics of humanism

  It’s very good. Read the whole thing. But what about the argument that contemporary Humanism is

• The problem with cryptocurrencies

  I know almost nothing about cryptocurrencies or the blockchain technology that undergirds it. I was aware

• Wake up, America

  I’ve been disturbed by American selfishness — we seriously have swarms of people who are anti

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