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Zelo Street

• Tommy Support Spooks Israel Advocates

  After yet another round of asymmetric conflict between the state of Israel and those living in the besieged

• Teaboy Takes Eurovision Too Seriously

  Another sign of a world returning to some kind of normality following the Covid-19 pandemic arrived

• Priti Patel And Murdoch Bang To Rights

  Fascism, in its 20th Century incarnations, was not merely authoritarian and vicious with it, it was highly

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Politics : NPR

• Impeachment Witness Gordon Sondland Is Suing Mike Pompeo And U.S. For $1.8

  Sondland, who testified about a "quid pro quo" between Trump and Ukraine, says the former

• U.S. Imposes Restrictions On Ethiopia And Eritrea Over Tigray Conflict

  The conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region began in early November. Thousands have died and

• U.S. Extends Temporary Protected Status For Thousands Of Haitian Migrants

  NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Guerline Jozef of the Haitian Bridge Alliance about the White House

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Simone Biles made a huge statement with her latest leotard

  The gymnast appeared to be sending a message through the medium of diamante.

• Bright colours and racy outfits lit up the Billboard Music Awards red

  From Alicia Keys to Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the BBMAs had no shortage of megawatt celebrities.

• Should you play music to your plants? It turns out there may be benefits

  A gardening expert explains whether tunes can really help your garden grow.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Taoiseach: Forced landing of Ryanair flight is 'piracy in the skies'

  Taoiseach Micheál Martin described it as ‘piracy in the skies’.

• North's Health Minister ‘disappointed’ at lack of meeting with Donnelly

  Robin Swann said he contacted Stephen Donnelly more than two weeks ago to discuss Covid-19 and cross-border

• Post-pandemic unemployment could surpass recession levels, Social Justice

  Social Justice Ireland's Employment Monitor predicts unemployment could reach 16.1 per cent following

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memeorandum

• Biden's non-Covid agenda takes center stage as virus starts to subside

  NBC News : Biden's non-Covid agenda takes center stage as virus starts to subside   &mdash

• 80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Bob Dylan Song For Bob Dylan's 80th

  Ryan Leas / Stereogum : 80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Bob Dylan Song For Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday

• Could Beto be back? O'Rourke mulling bid for Texas governor (Paul J

  Paul J. Weber / Associated Press : Could Beto be back?  O'Rourke mulling bid for Texas

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The Hayride

• GURVICH: Mr, Speaker, Where Is OUR Bill?

  A bill banning the mandated teaching of critical race theory is almost here, thank God! Under the bill

• Is Wrong Way Clay Running Out The Clock On Saving Girls’ Sports?

  Two things surfaced over the weekend which demonstrate that it isn’t just in economics where

• APPEL: How Much Longer Is Louisiana Going To Tolerate Dead Last?

  24/7 Wall Street just published another in a long string of economic reports that have found Louisiana in

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Fossilized Finance

  Not only have Canada’s “big five” banks continued to finance the fossil fuel sector since Canada committed

• 2021 Federal Budget Analysis

  Watch this space for response and analysis of the federal budget from CCPA staff and our  Alternative

• Canadian billionaire wealth up by $78 billion

  There's the super rich and there's the rest of us. The wealth of Canada’s billionaires has

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Times of India

• Delhi halts vaccine drive for 18-44, CM Arvind Kejriwal sends SOS to PM

• Government fumes as Twitter labels toolkit posts ‘manipulated’

• Ramdev withdraws controversial remarks about allopathy after nudge from

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

• Covid deaths continue to decline in Jharkhand; number dips to 37, lowest in

• 'Around 40 lakh benefitted, 8.38 lakh pensioners received pension under

• Congress slams 'raid' on Twitter offices, calls it attempt to '

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Gupta enterprise scored about R16bn from state capture-related

  The Gupta enterprise earned just under R16 billion from contracts "tainted by state capture"

• News24.com | Johann Rupert's Covid-19 fund to loan R100m to SA

  The fund formed to distribute money donated by the Rupert Family and Remgro in 2020 will loan R100 million

• News24.com | Covid-19: Gauteng increases number of vaccination sites

  Gauteng has increased the number of vaccination sites in the province as the Health Department ramps up its

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Cyril Ramaphosa | We are Africa and Africa is us. Let's

  Cyril Ramaphosa writes that as we prepare to observe Africa Day, we should deepen our efforts to achieve a

• News24.com | OPINION | Piles of promises to remove pit toilets are starting

  SECTION27 is heading back to court next week to continue its fight to get education authorities to

• News24.com | OPINION | The science we forgot: Fighting Covid-19 by going

  Since the leading international authorities acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19 as the main route

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Zimbabwe chief orders Robert Mugabe remains exhumed, reburied

  A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe's remains at the national

• News24.com | Mali's interim government appoints new ministers

  Mali's interim government has appointed new ministers with army figures retaining key portfolios

• News24.com | Nigeria protesters block highway after kidnapping surge

  Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria's capital Abuja after residents

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• West condemns plane’s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist

  Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the crew there was a bomb threat against the plane as it

• Eurovision winners Maneskin cleared over drug claims during final

  The European Broadcasting Union said frontman Damiano David had returned a negative result in a drugs test.

• BBC chairman confirms investigation into rehiring of Martin Bashir

  Richard Sharp said the broadcaster’s director-general was ‘looking into the hiring process as the executive

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WebMD Health

• Studies Most Likely to Be Wrong Are Read the Most

  Researchers find studies that can't be verified and may be untrue are much more likely to be cited in

• Life After Opioids

  Coping skills and rebuilding relationships after recovering from opioid addiction.

• Life After Alcohol

  Drinking alcohol is becoming less of a social norm and more of a lifestyle choice. Learn how others chose

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WhoWhatWhy

• How Three States Are Repairing the Failing Recycling System

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Who Is the Media Really For? ; 23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users

• Will Biden Tackle Political Corruption in Honduras?

  Reading Time: 6 minutes The Biden administration’s $4 billion plan to take on the root causes of Central

• A Minor Quake Hits a Popular Holiday Destination in China

  Reading Time: 3 minutes WhoWhatWhy apprentice Xinle Hou reports from the site of a minor earthquake in

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Science Blog

• Carbon farming payments possible with soil-building

  Vegetable growers building their soils and boosting yields may consider a side gig in carbon farming. The

• UF scientist finds way to reduce greenhouse gas in soil

  When soil gets saturated with water, the ground can produce nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that depletes

• A key to the next pandemic: An early-warning system

  What do we need to do to get ready for the next global pandemic? A Q&A with Michael Mina In this series

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Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

• Father of 5 dies from COVID-19 after choosing to skip the vaccine

  Antwone Rivers, 39, and his wife, Hollie abided by social distancing guidelines and wore masks in public

• 'I have to clear chats': Feds detail how Oath Keeper tried to wipe

  Last week, federal authorities arrested a number of Capitol rioters, including a New Jersey man by the name

• US home prices to keep racing ahead with risks to upside - Reuters poll

  By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) - U.S. house prices will continue to race ahead this year, at nearly

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• UWA And France On The Hunt For Exploding Stars

  The University of Western Australia and the French Government are working together with industry and

• Low Pressure Continues To Bring Wind And Heavy Swell

  MetService is forecasting a deep, slow-moving low northeast of New Zealand which directs a strong, moist

• NIWA Seeks Help From Skiers And Snow Bunnies

  A NIWA scientist is asking for the help of skiers, mountaineers and alpine professionals to collect snow

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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

• Innocence

  Arkansas really wanted someone dead, their supply of death drugs was running out. I was hiking in Muir

• How Do You Argue With This?

  I mean it as a question. How do you argue with this? From a trumper I know: Your friends seem to have all

• Today’s Housing Bubble Commercial Real Estate Bubble Post

  In the years leading up to the 2008 crash I was posting a series called “Today’s Housing Bubble

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The Slog

• COVID19: what’s the big idea?

  Over 80% of the populace are allegedly in denial about irrefutable Covid19 facts

• Henry Deeds & Shapps misdeeds

  More than a hundred years ago, it used to be said that Britain was a nation of lions […]

• VACCINE DEATHS: time for another colour of card?

  When supposely non-partisan State statistics can't be trusted, then free-speech democracy is as good as

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Universe Today

• This is Currently the World’s Largest Iceberg

  A gigantic chunk of ice recently broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, and is currently the world’s

• It Could be Possible to see Gravitational Wave Lenses

  Can waves of gravity be lensed by gravity? A recent study looks for lensed gravitational waves. The post

• Virgin Galactic reaches the space frontier over New Mexico for the first

  Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane crossed its 50-mile-high space boundary over New Mexico

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Whistleblower Network News

• Advocacy Organizations, Law Enforcement Officers Urge Congress to Include

  On May 18, Whistleblower Network News, along with 170 advocacy organizations, signed a letter urging

• Texas Dentists Agree To Pay $3.1 Million to Resolve FCA False Billing

  Two Texas dentists and their associated management companies and dental practices have agreed to pay $3.1

• Leading Whistleblower Attorney Interviewed about National Whistleblower Day

  July 30 is National Whistleblower Day. Every year since 2013, the U.S. Senate has unanimously recognized

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Andy Worthington

• Great News from Guantánamo As Three “Forever Prisoners,” Including 73-Year

  My detailed report about some extremely encouraging news from Guantánamo: that three men, including the

• Lee Wolosky, Former Envoy for Guantánamo Closure, Calls on President Biden

  A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantánamo by

• Fundraiser Marking the 9th Anniversary of My Photo-Journalism Project ‘The

  A fundraiser marking nine years since I first began photographing London's 120 postcodes by bike for my

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