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The American Dream

• A “Mega-Comet” That Is At Least 62 Miles Wide Has Entered Our Solar System

  Did you know that an absolutely gigantic comet that is at least 62 miles wide is cruising through our solar system right now?  Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is already closer to the sun than Neptune, but scientists are assuring us that it...

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• 4 “Pestilences” That Everyone Should Be Keeping An Eye On Right Now

  The plot thickens with each passing day, and I have a feeling that things are going to get very “interesting” in the months ahead.  Despite all of our advanced technology, humanity remains highly vulnerable to outbreaks of disease, and...

  7 days ago

• Most Americans Don’t Realize That Each New Day Brings Us A Little Bit Closer To War

  While most Americans remain in a deep state of slumber, global events are moving us a little bit closer to military conflict with each passing day.  U.S. relations with China are rapidly going down the tubes, and this is something that should...

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CNET

• Amazon Prime Video: The 30 best TV shows to watch this week - CNET

  The Pursuit of Love arrives this week.

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• How to rewatch the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics - CNET

  Missed the opening ceremony? Here's how to rewatch...

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• Skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics: When it starts and how to watch - CNET

  We still have the Park section to come. Here's what you need to know.

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Dandelion Salad

• David Swanson: It’s Absolute Hypocrisy

  with David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, July 26, 2021 July 27, 2021 “There’s no growing threat or shrinking threat or threat of any sort from anywhere on earth to the US military.” — David Swanson RTQuestionMore...

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• Kristinn Hrafnsson: Pegasus Spyware Leaks Show Nobody is Safe From Surveillance!

  Dandelion Salad goingundergroundRT on Jul 21, 2021 We speak to Wikileaks Editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson. He discusses the leaks showing up to 50,000 people were potential targets of the Pegasus spyware that has been sold to governments...

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• Congress-Pentagon Flap Over Critical Race Theory: A Job for Critical War Theory, by David Swanson

  by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, July 22, 2021 July 25, 2021 That the United States has always been so deeply afflicted with structural and cultural racism that it sometimes goes unnoticed and needs to be addressed...

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The Economic Collapse

• Let’s Compare The U.S. Economy Before The Pandemic To The U.S. Economy Today

  Throughout the first half of 2021, there was a tremendous amount of optimism about the U.S. economy.  Many believed that the pandemic would soon be behind us and that a new era of great prosperity would soon be upon us.  But now the optimism...

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• Paying Attention Yet? Here Are 10 Plagues That Our World Has Had To Deal With So Far This Summer…

  This is a summer that none of us will ever forget.  There has been one apocalyptic disaster after another, and we haven’t even reached the halfway point yet.  At the same time that historic flooding has been absolutely devastating parts...

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• Elderly Americans Are Increasingly Being Targeted As Violent Crime Soars To Crazy Levels In Major U.S. Cities

  Those that prey on elderly people just because they are easy targets should be deeply ashamed of themselves.  Unfortunately, we live at a time when violent criminals are roaming the streets of our major cities in packs, and many of them seem...

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Eurasia Review

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  Robert Reich: Why Aren’t Biden And Democrats Going All Out For Democracy? – OpEd

  You’d think President Biden and the Democratic Party leadership would do everything in their power to stop Republicans from undermining democracy. So far this year, the GOP has passed roughly 30 laws in states across the country  that...

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  Why Friedman Was Wrong About Booms And Bust – Analysis

  By Frank Shostak* In his attempt at explaining what business cycles are all about, Milton Friedman held that the economy’s output is bumping along the ceiling of maximum feasible output except that every now and then it is plucked down by...

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  Modern Geopolitics: A Race Through Chaos To Stability – OpEd

  By Samir Saran and Aarshi Tirkey The third decade of the twenty-first century has compelled the world to face its most intractable challenge yet—offering a coherent, collective and equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has tested...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 24, 2021, #311

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Climate mayhem is being ramped up all over the world, the same holds true for the CV-19 scenario. Ionosphere heater induced high pressure heat domes are fueling unprecedented drought and wildfires...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 17, 2021, #310

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Severe weather anomalies are now becoming so extreme that many are finally beginning to ask if there is more to the story than we are being told. Catastrophic drought and deluge scenarios are taking...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 10, 2021, #309

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The engineered incineration of western North America continues while record deluges douse and cool the Eastern US. Food crops are being decimated from both scenarios. How bad does the climate...

  17 days ago

intelNews.org

• Settlement reached in spying scandal that rocked Credit Suisse

  CREDIT SUISSE, ONE OF the world’s most powerful banking firms, has announced that a settlement has been reached in a case in which it stood accused of having paid private investigators to spy at former executives...

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• More evidence uncovered of Chinese spy programs that target expatriates

  AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE activities of China’s state security apparatus has revealed the existence of a worldwide spy operation aimed at forcibly repatriating fugitives and dissidents living abroad, including many who reside in Western...

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• Alleged Pegasus phone-tapping list includes phones of at least 14 heads of state

  AT LEAST FOURTEEN CURRENT or former heads of state, including presidents, prime ministers, and one king, are included in a list of 50,000 telephone numbers that were allegedly compromised through a controversial surveillance software...

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Joniopolis

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  The Klutz Olympics

             Once again, I have come up with a great idea. The Olympics just started and we are watching people who are so athletic that they seem to be created by animators. I fully expect one of them to leap into the air and zoom about like Superman...

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  Heck No

             I spent most of my formative years in northern Utah, and when I first saw the movie, Napoleon Dynamite, it felt like a documentary of my childhood, right down to the chicken farms and the 4-H.          Just to clarify, I did watch...

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  The Chick Magnet

             There’s something about St. Bob that uninhibits women, shall we say.  I’ve seen women make passes at him on the freeway, in meetings, after performances we’ve attended, and once, when we brought some Christmas gifts...

  15 days ago

Niqnaq

• kit klarenberg exposes british derring-do in the balkans, classic stuff

  Leaked files expose London’s cloak-and-dagger scheming to secure the permanent divorce of Kosovo from Serbia Kit Klarenberg, RT.com, Jul 27 2021 In Sep 2020, Pristina and Belgrade agreed to normalize economic relations, in a move hailed...

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• south front

  Turkish-Backed Militants Against Everybody Including Themselves In Northern Syria South Front, Jul 27 2021 https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/27.07.2021_IMR_Syria.mp4 In Greater Idlib, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham...

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• the conclusion here is very double-edged indeed

  If you consult the paper by John Laughland mentioned below, as I recommend you do, let me point out that the paper he mentions, “From Dayton to Europe” by David Chandler, is no longer on the Westminster University website, but is here –...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Child Rights’ Experts Warn that Displaced Children and Young People Risk Being Wiped Out of the Education System

  The difficulties in accessing education faced by children and young people forcibly displaced from their homes were today laid bare in a virtual high-level roundtable convened by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)...

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• Honour Killings – Religion or Culture?

  There is nothing honourable about murder. And murdering someone of your own family, your own child – a daughter, someone you held in your arms and rocked to sleep when they were babies? This is such a horrifying crime that there are no words...

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• Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries’ Pandemic Recovery Needs

  Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow as they deal with the crisis and its economic aftermath. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a far-reaching package...

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The Moderate Voice

• I Told You So When No One Would Listen

  In "exposing" one kind of hate crime, an entire national media deep-sixed an equally deadly, and far more wide-spread social disease. The post I Told You So When No One Would Listen appeared first on The Moderate Voice...

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• ‘Hugs and Kisses’ or ‘To Hell and Back’?

  I am sure that most Americans who watched the first Congressional hearings by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection were once again appalled by the horrific videos they saw, but this time personally and chillingly...

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• House January 6 committee hears of ‘medieval’ Capitol violence by pro-Trump rioters

  Published by Reuters By Richard Cowan and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A congressional committee held its first hearing investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack on Tuesday with testimony by four police officers who struggled...

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Mother Jones

• Today Is the 100th Anniversary of Insulin. Let Us Know How It’s Affected Your Life.

  Until the discovery of insulin a century ago today by two Canadian researchers who injected a pancreatic extract into a diabetic dog and watched its blood sugar drop, diabetes had been deemed fatal. Kids and adults “most often died within...

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• Trump Stiffs George P. Bush, “the Only Bush That Likes Me”

  Former President Donald Trump picked a side in one of the most significant Republican primaries of the 2022 election cycle on Monday night, endorsing Texas attorney general Ken Paxton in his bid for a third term. This may sound perfectly...

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• “You Will Die on Your Knees”: As Cops Recount Capitol Violence, Republicans Boycott and Blame Pelosi

  “You will die on your knees.” “It still isn’t over for me.” “This nigger voted for Joe Biden.” On Tuesday, at the first congressional hearing to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection, officers who defended the building...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Very bright fireball over southern Norway, hunt for meteorites underway

  A very bright fireball entered Earth's atmosphere over southern Norway at around 23:09 UTC on July 24, 2021 (01:09 LT, July 25). The event lasted for about 5 seconds before the object disintegrated in a series of flashes. ​A spokesperson...

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  Newly discovered undersea volcano near Christmas Island looks like the Eye of Sauron

  An ancient undersea volcano was discovered 280 km (175 miles) southeast of the Christmas Islands. The volcano was discovered by CSIRO’s dedicated ocean research vessel, the RV Investigator. "Previously unknown and unimagined, this...

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  Massive flooding hits Zhengzhou after more than 200 mm (7.8 inches) of rain in just 1 hour, China

  Extremely heavy rains hit the capital of China's Henan Province - Zhengzhou (population 10.3 million) on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, causing massive floods. This was the third and the strongest day of heavy rainfall in the province. Zhengzhou...

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WebMD Health

• What People With Chronic Insomnia Wish You Knew

  It's a lot more than the temporary bouts of sleeplessness most of us have. Here's what people with chronic insomnia want you to know about their condition.

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• Poll: Minorities Less Comfortable Discussing Sensitive Issues With a Doctor

  A new WebMD poll shows that members of minority communities are more uneasy about discussing sensitive topics, like race-related issues and sexual orientation, with doctors.

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• High Blood Pressure: Which Drug Works Best for You?

  New research suggests ARBs might be a better choice for people just starting on blood pressure medication.

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WhoWhatWhy

• Voting Curbs Enacted in 18 States in 2021 Despite None Finding Widespread Fraud

  PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please...

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• Restaurants and Delivery Apps: Friends or Foes?

  Post-pandemic, restaurants’ survival remains a critical issue. Food delivery services may be their rescue — or their ruin.

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• Why You Should Stop Using This ‘Dangerous’ Wi-Fi Setting On Your iPhone

  PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please...

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