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Sharyl Attkisson

• WATCH: Ashli Babbitt and the deadly shooting at the Capitol riots

  Four months after the Capitol riots, one verdict is in: there was only one homicide that day. That of an

• (VIDEO) Exclusive Investigation: Separating rumor from fact on Covid-19'

  Numerous scientific insiders are signing onto the “lab origin” theory for Covid-19 and a link to

• Media Mistakes in the Biden Era: the Definitive List

  Read: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era here 12. Saturday May 1, 2021 The New York Times, Washington Post and

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BlackListed News

• U.S. Ends Visa Services for Most Russians

  The Kremlin accused Washington on Friday of fuelling tension with “unfriendly actions” after the U.S

• New York Times, WaPo, NBC forced to retract false claims about Giuliani

  The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News all issued retractions Saturday for their coverage of Rudy

• Ben Shapiro: To Boost Vax Demand, Biden Should Tell People 'They Can Go

  With demand for Big Pharma's mRNA injections falling "particularly among the young and among

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naked capitalism

• Links 5/2/2021

• Biden Urged to Stand ‘On the Side of Humanity’ and Back Waiver for Covid

  Biden faces increased wroldwide pressure for WTO waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19

• Links 5/1/2021

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NEPC - Blog Post of the Day

• Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought

  Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought by the Common Core Standards

• LA Progressive: Yes, Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools

  LA Progressive: Yes, Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools But It Was Never

• Teacher in a Strange Land: Acceleration Nation

  Teacher in a Strange Land: Acceleration Nation There it was— an ad for dealing with imaginary

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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

• Republicans took an ax to Obama's rules. Democrats are using a scalpel.

  Democrats' ambivalence over the use of the Congressional Review Act stands in stark contrast to

• The cannabis industry's next war: How strong should its weed be?

  Some of the 18 states that have embraced legal weed are debating whether to cap THC potency. So far, most

• ‘There’s a lot of crazy going on’: Pro-Trump lawyer blows up key GOP race

  Lin Wood’s smash-mouth bid to become South Carolina party chair is rattling one of the Republican Party’s

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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

• Rehoboth wins district crown, clinches playoff spot

  The two-point win earned the Lynx the District 1-2A title and a spot in next week’s New Mexico Class 2A

• Sandpainter’s work ends up as gift to first lady

  Diné sandpainter Zachariah Ben’s work will be mounted on a wall in the White House. The post

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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

• American extradited to NL in 17-year-old cold case murder investigation

  A 60-year-old American man has been extradited to the Netherlands in connection with the murder of a

• No further relaxation of the coronavirus rules, more under-50s in hospital

  The cabinet has no plans to bring in any further relaxation of the coronavirus rules in the near future and

• Wassenaar honours man who saved the graves of resistance fighters from

  Wassenaar local council has named the cycle path that leads past the memorial on the World War II execution

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BleepingComputer

• How to stop Windows 10 Defender from uploading files to Microsoft

  Like other antivirus programs, Microsoft Defender will upload suspicious files to Microsoft to determine if

• Windows 10 Device Manager update makes removing drivers easier

  ​The Windows 10 Device Manager is getting a helpful upgrade that makes it easier to uninstall a specific

• Google Chrome is getting a new Progressive Web App feature

  In the latest effort to improve the web apps experience, Google appears to be working on a new API that

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Accuracy In Academia

• Biden’s ‘clean’ energy push is unattainable for Native Americans

  Although Inside Higher Ed published an article that intended to express optimism and hope for renewable

• Chauvin trial outcome pleases left-wing higher education figures

  The end of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was met with  cheers, jubilation

• NCAA threatens states over women’s sports, transgender laws

  The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), an organization often maligned for its bureaucracy and

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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 Shoot a Palestinian Teen Near Jenin

  Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday evening, a Palestinian teenage boy, and caused many residents to suffer

• Army Attacks Nonviolent Protesters Near Hebron

  Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of nonviolent Palestinian protesters, including elders, in the

• PA Foreign Ministry Denounces Israeli Assault On Christians On Holy

  The Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement denouncing the Israeli police attack on dozens of

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BBC News - Home

• India coronavirus: New record deaths as virus engulfs India

  India records another dire milestone, but the government continues to resist a full lockdown.

• Israel crush: Day of mourning after dozens killed at Jewish festival

  The country grieves after a crush at a Jewish festival killed 45 men and boys and injured many others.

• Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Images of destruction after border clashes

  At least 46 people were killed while homes, schools and checkpoints were destroyed in the dispute.

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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...

  CBPP’s main focus this week was the announcement of President Biden’s proposed American Families Plan. CBPP

• 3 Principles for an Antiracist, Equitable State Response to COVID-19 — and

  States have critical policy choices to make: they can exacerbate inequities and damage the economy, or they

• Tracking the Post-Great Recession Economy

  When President Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited an economy in its 91st month of economic

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Coyote Blog

• Virological Calvinism

  It is always dangerous when a non-religious person tries to make a statement about religious belief

• 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

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Dandelion Salad

• India Is Being Pulverised By A Second Covid-19 Wave, by Haris Zargar + The

  Dandelion Salad by Haris Zargar New Frame, April 26, 2021 May 2, 2021 Oxygen, hospital bed and medication

• Chris Hedges: The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on May 1, 2021 On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses

• The Brief Origins of May Day by Eric Chase

  Dandelion Salad Originally published May 1, 2015 Republished with permission from IWW by Eric Chase IWW

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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

• Is Press Freedom Incompatible with Gender Empowerment?

  3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of a series of IPS features and opinion editorials focused

• Said Zahari: Unsung Mandela of Press Freedom

  3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of a series of IPS features and opinion editorials focused

• A Year Later, COVID-19 Continues to Show the Fragility of Food Security

  Mario Lubetkin is Assistant Director General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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INTERNATIONALIST 360°

• Massacre in Cali Amid National Strike in Colombia

  Colombia Informa Reports from human rights defenders estimate that at least eight people were killed by

• 21st Century Anti-Communism is a Desperate Cry from a Decaying Capitalist

  Rainer Shea Our era’s anti-communist propaganda campaign is the ideological facet of the great reactionary

• 46 Years After the Great Victory: Ho Chi Minh and the Role of the

  Carlos Aznarez Vietnam has always been a hard nut to crack for imperialism that attempted to carve out its

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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

• Brazil: Court upholds impeachment of Rio de Janeiro Governor Witzel

  Former Governor of Rio de Janeiro Wilson Witzel's impeachment has been upheld

• Argentine President Fernández extends current covid-19 restrictions until

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday announced the current restriction on

• Former President Uribe calls on police and army to use weapons in Colombian

  Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe on Friday urged that police and military

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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News

• LI, downstate must pay for bulk of wind-farm upgrades, state says #NY

  LIPA and the state are at odds over who will pay for billions of dollars in upgrades needed to distribute

• Wind farm plan for ‘sacred’ site #AUS #FRA

  The Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, where thousands of Diggers lie buried, will soon

• East County group sues to stop wind project on Campo Indian Reservation #CA

  SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. – One of the largest renewable energy projects to be proposed in San Diego

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www.thenewfederalist.eu

• THE ERA OF POLITICAL PIRACY

  Cyber-attacks have become a recurring event in our lives. Who has never received a strange email, sometimes

• Belarus: increasing democratic aspirations in “Europe's last

  Our series of interviews on the Eastern Partnership (EaP) continues! - Europe in the World

• One year on: a distress call for human rights

  In 2019, the Council of Europe published the Recommendation: ‘Lives saved. Rights protected'. The

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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

• Researchers develop compact on-chip device to detect electric-field

  Understanding how light waves oscillate in time as they interact with materials is essential to

• Al-Qaeda promises 'war on all fronts' after Biden misses US troop

  As the United States' "war on terror" enters a new phase as President Joe Biden has begun

• 'No sign of contagion' after 5,000-person rock concert in Barcelona

  A rock concert held in Barcelona and attended by 5,000 people showed "no sign" of causing

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Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• 'Soaked' singer Benee 'stoked' to perform alongside top NZ

  The 21-year-old singer and her band will perform four concerts backed by 66 classical musicians.

• Man with epilepsy remains in home two months after eviction notice

  A slip during the Napier floods didn't touch the Napier man's home, but he was told to leave as the

• Wellington hapū visit Kāpiti Airport wetlands for the first time in 80

  Kāpiti Airport shut for most of Sunday for a historic event as mana whenua visited wetlands on the site for

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Freethought Blogs

• Teaching in Kansas sure must be different

  The pedagogical methods of Mark Samsel wouldn’t fly here. In fact, they weren’t even successful

• Guest post: Planning a pantry, chapter one of…?

  Guest post by Tegan Note: This is the beginning of our effort to build up advice on the kind of pro-social

• Origami: Doxie pair

  I made these dachshunds as part of the local origami club, and I love them.  I made two, and they

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