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The American Dream

• Freak Weather Events And Drought Are Devastating Agricultural Production All Over The Globe

  Did you know that Brazil just had snow for the first time in 64 years?  Millions of Brazilians were absolutely thrilled to experience real snow for the very first time in their lives, but the freakishly low temperatures have hit agricultural...

  2 days ago

• ( Hmm. And what about conditions 64 years ago? Were they thought Situation Normal ? )

• Will Most Of The U.S. Be Locked Down For Much Of The Second Half Of 2021?

  For most of the first half of 2021, the vast majority of Americans believed that the COVID pandemic was nearly over.  But now the Delta variant has changed everything.  We are being told that the number of confirmed cases is absolutely skyrocketing...

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• Have The Social Media Companies Become Way Too Powerful?

  Do you remember the early days of the Internet?  It was like “the wild west”, and that could be bad, but in many ways it was also very good.  The Internet was very decentralized at that time, and information could flow very freely.  For...

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CNET

• Facebook disables accounts tied to NYU's research into political ads - CNET

  The social network said researchers used "unauthorized means" to collect data from Facebook users.

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• Best Apple Watch bands for 2021 - CNET

  From stainless steel to silicone, there's an Apple Watch band for every purpose.

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• Hulu: 10 of the best movies to see this week - CNET

  A ton of new films arrived this week.

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Dandelion Salad

• Capitalism and Alienation, by Yanis Iqbal

  by Yanis Iqbal Writer, Dandelion Salad Aligarh, India August 3, 2021 Capitalism is deeply unjust. It is a system under which labour power has itself become a commodity and is bought and sold on the market like any other object of exchange. A condition...

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• Collapsing Federal Corporate Crime Enforcement, by Ralph Nader

  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page, July 30, 2021 August 2, 2021 As the size and severity of the corporate crime wave surges, Congress is asleep at the switch. The mostly captive Capitol Hill Gang has sat on an antiquated federal criminal...

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• Chris Hedges and Nick Bryant: The Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Jul 31, 2021 On the show this week Chris Hedges talks to investigative journalist Nick Bryant about the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, held at New York’s...

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The Economic Collapse

• 3 New Polls Show That They Are Going To Need To Cart Out Much Bigger Doses Of “Hopium”

  The mood of the nation has dramatically changed.  Survey after survey has shown that Americans are much less optimistic than they were during the first half of 2021, and that could have enormous implications for the economy as we roll through...

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• August Will Be A Real Turning Point – Welcome To The Biggest Eviction Horror Show In U.S. History

  It is the beginning of August, and a day of reckoning has finally arrived for renters all over the nation.  Since last September, a moratorium that was issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been protecting millions of...

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• When Society Collapses, Will The United States Be One Of The Best Places To Be Located?

  On some level, we all know that it is just a matter of time before our society implodes.  When that day finally arrives, where will you want to be living?  I know that most of you have thought about this at some point.  Even if we don’t admit...

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Eurasia Review

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  China’s Obstruction Of Virus Origin Investigation Gets Official American Support – OpEd

  China has rejected a World Health Organization plan that would further probe the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, including the possibility that it escaped from a Chinese laboratory. American officials are taking a similar...

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  Eco-Imperialism: The West’s New Kind Of Colonialism – OpEd

  By Lipton Matthews* Globally, there is a movement to remove the residues of Western imperialism from all quarters of society. Throughout the world, monuments dedicated to Western explorers and statesmen are being toppled. Activists in...

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  NIH’s Authoritarian In Charge: Unvaccinated People Should Be Fired, Banned From Public Places And Barred From Travel – OpEd

  Francis S. Collins, the director of the United States government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), went full-on authoritarian in his Sunday interview with Jake Tapper at CNN’s State of the Nation. Collins, in the interview, supported...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, July 31, 2021, #312

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org How many are prepared for what is unfolding? Ongoing climate intervention operations have pushed the planet past the point of no return, climate chaos is now the norm. As biosphere collapse accelerates...

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  Graphene Skies?

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org What aren’t we being told? Is the highly toxic and controversial element graphene being seeded into our skies as part of the ongoing covert climate intervention operations? Is climate modification...

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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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intelNews.org

• Iranian hackers used Gmail, Facebook, to spy on US aerospace contractor

  A GROUP OF HACKERS, who are known to operate under the direction of the Iranian government, used fictitious Gmail and Facebook accounts to compromise employees of a United States defense contractor.

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• Polish government re-arrests former Huawei official accused of spying for China

  POLAND’S COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SERVICES HAVE arrested for the second time a former executive of the Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei Technologies, who is accused of spying for Beijing.

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• Ex-Spanish King’s former mistress claims intelligence service spied on her

  THE EX-MISTRESS OF SPAIN’S former king has sued him in a British court, claiming that he deployed agents from Spain’s intelligence service in a “campaign of unlawful covert and over surveillance” against her...

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Joniopolis

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  The Unwelcome Wagon

             There used to be a lovely slice of Americana, where women would drop by the homes of new people moving in, and bring them all kinds of goodies, gifts, and coupons. It was called the Welcome Wagon.  Alas, these in-person visits...

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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...

  15 days ago

Niqnaq

• pj watson

  NIH Director Says Parents Should Wear Masks Inside Their Own Homes: “I know it seems weird.” PJ Watson, Summit News, Aug 3 2021 The NIH director says that vaccinated parents should be wearing masks *at home* to protect their kids, who have...

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• south front

  Daraa’s Rebels Refuse Settlement And Clashes Continue With Support From Greater Idlib South Front, Aug 3 2021 https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/03.08.2021_IMR_Syria.mp4 Daraa has been in the spotlight in Syria...

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• electronic intifada on the paypal/ADL hookup

  Israel lobby group ADL teams up with PayPal Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada, Aug 2 2021 PayPal is partnering with the ADL, a major Israel lobby group, to investigate how “extremist and hate movements” use financial tools...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Family Hope ‘Lessons are Learnt’ to Protect Investigative Journalists

  The family of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has called for “lessons to be learnt” after an independent inquiry found that the Maltese state bore responsibility for her death. Caruana Galizia, Malta’s most prominent investigative...

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• Suburban Living the Worst for Carbon Emissions – New Research

  The writer is Research Associate at United Nations University

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• Central Banks Must Address Pandemic Challenges

  Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich countries have done little to ensure poor countries’ access to vaccines and fiscal resources, North-South “fault lines” will certainly widen. Enhancing relief...

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The Moderate Voice

• UT OH, CUOMO: PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION (includes roundup)

  As many analysts predict that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s days in office are numbered, and his political career over, the beleaguered Cuomo got some more bad news: President Joe Biden called on him to resign.The reason: a New York Attorney...

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• ‘He is wholly unfit to serve’: Calls for Cuomo’s removal amass after harassment findings

  Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — Demands for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign or be promptly removed from office poured in Tuesday after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her investigators have corroborated allegations...

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• Investigators say New York Governor Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women

  Published by Reuters By Jonathan Allen and Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) -An investigation into accusations of sexual harassment by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo found that he groped, kissed or made suggestive comments to 11 women and...

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Mother Jones

• You Know Evictions Are Coming When Court Deputies Get Vaccinated En Masse

  In New Orleans, court deputies are gearing up to evict tenants from their homes after the federal eviction moratorium expired over the weekend. Yesterday, local officials announced a new preparation requirement: All of the deputies tasked...

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• Two Olympians Share Gold for the First Time in High-Jump History

  Now this is how you take gold. Hats off to Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy for agreeing to split the title down the middle, an unprecedented act in high-jump history. Their mutual respect and abiding friendship broke...

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• Explosive Report Finds Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple Women and Retaliated Against at Least One Victim

  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, many of them young, and in doing so violated federal and state law, the state’s attorney general Letitia James announced Tuesday, concluding a four-month-long investigation...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Greece sets new European all-time highest temperature record

  Greece has set a new European highest temperature record with 46.3 °C (115.3 °F) registered in Makrakomi, Phthiotis on Monday, August 2, 2021. The meteorological station where the temperature was registered is operated by the National...

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  Multiple, discrete, energetic explosion signals at Semisopochnoi volcano, Alaska

  Unrest under Semisopochnoi volcano increased at the end of July, with a marked increase in seismicity on July 31. Increased activity has also been detected on local infrasound stations, suggesting possible low-level (below 3 km / 10 000 feet...

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  Area under wildfires in Yakutia reaches 3.6 million ha (8.9 million acres), Russia

  The current area under the wildfires in Russia's Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is reported to be 3.6 million ha (8.9 million acres). The fire season in the region started in early May. As of Monday, August 2, there are 156 wildfires in the republic...

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WebMD Health

• How I Got to Psoriasis Remission

  Read how these people cleared up their psoriasis.

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• U.S. Science Labs Getting Towering New Equipment

  The machines are so tall, scientists climb to reach the top to conduct experiments that experts say will advance health research and drug development.

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• Simone Biles Cleared to Compete, Wins Bronze in Balance Beam

  Biles has been struggling with the “twisties” since the team final a week ago, pulling out of that competition after she stumbled on one of her routine vaults.

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WhoWhatWhy

• The Eviction Moratorium Has Ended. Here’s What Renters Need to Know.

  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...

  10 hours ago

• Art, Identity, and Invisibility in Texas

  Seeing is believing. Two museum exhibitions in a gentrifying Austin tackle race and culture in the Lone Star state.

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• Zoom Reaches $85M Tentative Settlement on User Privacy, ‘Zoombombing’

  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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