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The American Dream

• Inside The Biden Administration’s Devious Plan To Purge Conservatives From The U.S. Military

  If you are currently a member of the U.S. military and you would like to keep your job, you may want to delete all of your social media accounts.  We have just learned that the Pentagon is going to begin monitoring the social media accounts of the...

  a day ago

• As Israel Relentlessly Pounds Terrorists In Gaza, The War Threatens To Expand Elsewhere

  Residents of Gaza spent the night cowering in fear as a series of dramatic airstrikes destroyed buildings used by Hamas terrorists.  We have never seen anything quite like this, and the Israelis haven’t shown any signs that they plan to...

  2 days ago

• Netanyahu Warns “We’ll Do Whatever It Takes To Restore Order And Quiet” After Nearly 3,000 Rockets Are Fired At Israel

  If you were running a country and somebody decided to fire close to 3,000 rockets at your cities, what would you do?  I know what I would do, and it wouldn’t be pretty.  Every nation on the entire planet has a right to self-defense, but right...

  3 days ago

CNET

• Yamaha 2021 receivers work with Xbox Series X, start at $1,300 - CNET

  Yamaha's new Aventage receivers offer seven 8K-compatible HDMI 2.1 inputs and come ready for next-gen gaming.

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• Child and dependent care credit: How to get $16,000 back for child care, babysitting expenses - CNET

  You could get thousands back from the new child care credit if you pay for day care, after-school programs or a babysitter for your child -- but you have to start this year.

  an hour ago

• Lexus promises its first battery-electric vehicle by 2022 - Roadshow

  The new luxury EV will be its own stand-alone model rather than an electric trim of an existing one.

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Dandelion Salad

• Abby Martin: Israeli War Crimes

  Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin theAnalysis-news on May 18, 2021 Abby Martin on her documentary film and the current situation in Palestine, on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay. Transcript From the archives: There is No Getting Around It...

  5 hours ago

• Will Griffin: Exporting Capitalism to Outer Space

  by Will Griffin Writer, Dandelion Salad May 18, 2021 GNspace4peace on May 6, 2021 The Pentagon and multinational corporations are privatizing outer space, placing profit over people. Laws are being implemented in order to benefit billionaires...

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• Michael Hudson: The World’s Absentee Landlord

  by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad May 17, 2021 In this wide-ranging discussion on the Moderate Rebels podcast, Hudson addresses US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, the policies of the Joe Biden administration, Beijing’s economic...

  2 days ago

The Economic Collapse

• If Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Why Do The Shortages Just Keep Getting Worse?

  They keep telling us that economic conditions are improving, but if that is true why are the shortages worse than ever?  For a moment, I would like to take you all the way back to 2019.  Before the pandemic came along, we didn’t have any shortages. ...

  21 hours ago

• A Severe Computer Chip Shortage Will Last “A Few Years”, And This Could Plunge The Global Economy Into Utter Chaos

  Of all the shortages that we are currently facing, the global computer chip shortage may be the most serious.  That is because the chip shortage is expected to last “a few years”, and just about every sector of the world economy will be dramatically...

  2 days ago

• Megadrought Nightmare: No Water For Crops, Horrific Wildfires, Colossal Dust Storms And Draconian Water Restrictions

  The megadrought that has almost the entire western half of the country in a death grip is starting to become extremely painful.  In some areas, irrigation water is being totally cut off for farmers, and that is going to result in a totally lost...

  3 days ago

Eurasia Review

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  In Defense of Those Cartoon Improvisations As a Means of Protest Against the Squeezing and Engulfing Fascist Evil in Bangladesh – OpEd

  Yes, those two YouTube videos (https://youtu.be/JZs4W3R4PV4; https://youtu.be/EQ6DW3sUxTY), compared with the buzz and blizzards all around, are indeed decent and amazingly creative. They have probably been intended by the original...

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  Sinead O’Connor Is A Phony – OpEd

  Sinead O'Connor is back in the news, this time hawking her memoir, "Rememberings." It turns out that the chain-smoking perennially troubled entertainer says she has difficulty remembering what happened to her life after she ripped up a picture...

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  Expats In Distress: From ‘God’s Own Country’ To The ‘Holy Land’ – OpEd

  Life for many expats in the Gulf/West Asian countries is part of a larger struggle against ever-increasing odds of daily encounters—be it war, terror attacks, recession or pandemic. Any news of a spark of fire or a whiff of fighting in the...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 15, 2021, #301

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Are climate engineering operations being used to carry out other agendas? How will the unfolding paradigm all across the world play out? Who is pulling the strings? How will populations respond...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 8, 2021, #300

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org George Orwell warned: “Big Brother is Watching You.” What do you think? The societal epidemic of Stockholm syndrome is worsening by the day, governments around the globe are using this to...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, May 1, 2021, #299

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The whole of the human race continues to free-fall into completely uncharted territory, societally and environmentally. Even now a shockingly large percentage of the population is clinging...

  18 days ago

intelNews.org

• US Pentagon’s ‘secret army’ of clandestine operatives dwarfs CIA spy force: report

  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of Defense maintains a “secret army” of over 60,000 operatives, many of whom work across the world in a clandestine capacity, with fake identities and manufactured backgrounds, according to a new report...

  20 hours ago

• Polish counterintelligence arrest man for giving military secrets to Russia

  POLAND’S COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENCY HAS announced the arrest of a Polish citizen, who reportedly admitted spying for Russian military intelligence. The 43-year-old man has been named only as “Marcin K.”, in compliance with Polish...

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• US Army Special Forces soldier sentenced to 15 years for spying for Russia

  A FORMER MEMBER OF the United States Army’s Special Forces has been sentenced for spying for Russia for 15 years, after he was reportedly groomed by Russian military intelligence at a young age.

  3 days ago

Joniopolis

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  How About a Bargain Home? Erm... Maybe Not

             Home prices are through the roof, right? Even if there is no roof! Homes that used to sell for $300,000 are getting bids for half a million and higher! Folks are moving out of previously expensive states and turning their new states...

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  Could Your Name be an Adjective?

             Certain names sound like they should be part of our vocabulary. Take Kimberly. Kimberly sounds like gingerly and limber. It makes you think of someone graceful yet perky.  He took the stairs kimberly, eager to see his new office...

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  A Visit to the Twilight Zone

                  Have you ever had one of those days when everything goes wacko?  Okay, I suspect this happens to me more often than it does to regular people (people who do not have a craziness magnet implanted in them somehow).                ...

  15 days ago

Niqnaq

• fuck this – i’m moving to livejournal

  WordPress is a piece of shit, not unlike Blogspot (the home of the diaphanous Xymphora). My new daily blogging location will be here: https://rowanberkeley.livejournal.com It will certainly be faster for me, and to judge by Colonel Cassad...

  2 days ago

• this extraordinarily optimistic person wants to see the EU turn against the US, its creator

  US And Its Allies Try to Split the World in Two Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture, May 16 2021 America’s response to the increasing economic success of China and other nations that until recent decades were impoverished former colonies is to...

  3 days ago

• “conservative” is an american euphemism for “nazi”

  American conservatives celebrate Israeli bombing of AP & Al Jazeera offices RT.com, May 17 2021 Multiple US commentators have been celebrating the Israeli bombing of an international media tower that houses offices for AP, the BBC...

  3 days ago

Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• China’s Firms Gain a Foothold in South America as Energy Providers

  Over the past decade, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from China have carved out a niche as owners and operators of electric utilities in South American countries through acquisitions of energy grids. As SOEs shift from their previous role...

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• County Climate Risk Profiles Critical and Timely for Kenya’s Struggling Smallholders

  Peris Wanjiku, a smallholder farmer in Othaya, Nyeri County, which lies approximately 152 kilometres from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has watched as her fellow farmers have slowly started to sell off their land in the face of increasingly...

  16 hours ago

• International Cooperation Gives Biogas a Boost in Rural Cuba

  Yunia Cancio cooked with firewood until a few years ago, when a biodigester was built on her family’s El Renacer farm in Cabaiguán, a municipality in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, under the Biomass Cuba project. That change...

  16 hours ago

The Moderate Voice

• World’s worst pandemic leaders: 5 presidents and prime ministers who badly mishandled COVID-19

  Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visits a hospital for COVID-19 patients, unmasked, in Minsk on Nov. 27, 2020. Andrei Stasevich\TASS via Getty Images Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University; Dorothy Chin, University of California...

  20 hours ago

• TRUMP DEVOURING HIS PARTY (CARTOON)

  The post TRUMP DEVOURING HIS PARTY (CARTOON) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

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• Capitol attack commission advances in Congress amid Republican resistance

  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A proposal to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters advanced in Congress on Tuesday even as one key Republican announced...

  a day ago

Mother Jones

• The House Just Voted to Create a Commission to Investigate the January 6 Riots

  A measure to establish a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol passed in the House Wednesday evening with bipartisan support. Despite opposition to the proposal from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy...

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• McDonald’s Workers Are Striking for a $15 Minimum Wage

  In the past few weeks, McDonald’s outposts have responded to a supposed shortage of workers by offering $50 to anyone who shows up for an interview in Tampa, giving free combo meals to applicants in Central Florida, and offering small raises...

  7 hours ago

• Texas Governor Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban, Teeing Up a Litigation Free-for-All

  Today, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that bans abortion at six weeks and allows any private citizen, regardless of where they live or who they are, to sue abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” them.  The law does...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Czech Republic sees extreme snow as another Arctic front descends on Europe

  Wide swaths of the Czech Republic, including Labska Bouda, have been buried in extreme snowfall this late in the season. The unseasonal winter weather conditions were brought by a cold Arctic air mass descending on Europe and keeping much...

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  Severe flooding hits Brazil as Amazon rivers rise to near-record levels

  Heavy rains in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have triggered the rise of rivers to near-record levels, flooding towns and threatening Manaus City. According to authorities, the water level at the Rio Negro is the third-highest in history and...

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  Decades-old video footage reveals new type of aurora - Diffuse Auroral Eraser

  Decades-old video footage has shown a never-before-seen aurora, which scientists at the University of Iowa called the Diffuse Auroral Eraser. This elusive type of aurora first appears as a brighter stripe within a fainter, more diffused...

  4 days ago

WebMD Health

• Talking to Family and Friends About Your Drinking

  It can be scary to share your alcohol use disorder with family and friends. But it's an important step in your recovery. Here’s how to approach these conversations.

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• Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy

  Dentists know how to maximize the profits in your mouth. But sometimes it’s outright fraud — to the tune of billions every year.

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• India Posts Highest Death Toll In Pandemic So Far

  The previous deadliest day for a single country was recorded in the United States in January, when 4,468 people died.

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WhoWhatWhy

• Georgia and Florida Hit With New Lawsuits Over Voter Suppression

  Reading Time: 9 minutes As Republican leadership in Georgia and Florida move to change their voting laws, activists are fighting back through the court system. The post Georgia and Florida Hit With New Lawsuits Over Voter Suppression appeared...

  5 hours ago

• The Urgent Search for ‘Slow Water’ in Peru

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Bullied Teen's Mom Is Suing Social Media Over His Death ; Sewage Crisis Hits Majority-Black Town in New York ; and More Picks 5/19 The post The Urgent Search for ‘Slow Water’ in Peru appeared first on WhoWhatWhy...

  7 hours ago

• The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party

  Reading Time: < 1 minute Forget about a big tent — the Grand Old Party is now a one-ring circus remade in Donald Trump’s image. The post The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party appeared first on WhoWhatWhy...

  13 hours ago