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Zelo Street

• Climate Emergency - Greta v Guido

  For those who have claimed that it wasn’t happening, that there was nothing to worry about, and we should

• Murdoch Host Bullies Teenager

  Social media platforms enable us to talk directly to a potentially huge audience, to inform and be informed

• Priti Patel - Migrant Pants On Fire

  Brexit, it must be remembered, is not someone else’s fault. It was the UK that voted for it, it was the UK

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Politics : NPR

• U.S. Expands Sanctions On Allies Of Belarus' Authoritarian Leader

  The U.S., which accuses President Alexander Lukashenko of corruption and repression, imposes new sanctions

• White House Climate Scientist Reacts To U.N. Report

  NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Jane Lubchenco, who leads climate and environment science efforts at

• With Revelation Of Aiding Cuomo, Roberta Kaplan Resigns As Chairwoman Of

  NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rebecca Keegan, senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter , about the

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• 6 simple ways to cut your carbon emissions

  Every little helps.

• International Cat Day: 9 things you only know if you’re definitely a cat

  Every feline fan will know what we’re talking about…

• Contents of Howth Castle to be sold at auction

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Open-top bus planned for Harrington homecoming

  Olympic gold medallist Kellie Harrington is due to arrive back from Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon.

• Cannabis jellies worth over €33,000 and cash seized in Dublin

  Two men and a woman have been charged in relation to the seizure.

• Two men charged in relation to alleged €1m theft from accountancy firm

  The men, both aged in their 30s, were arrested on Monday morning.

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memeorandum

• Here's What We Know About California's "Print-at-Home Ballot

  Jennifer Van Laar / RedState : Here's What We Know About California's “Print-at-Home

• Infrastructure Is Having A Moment In Washington. High-Speed Rail Is Not

  Igor Bobic / HuffPost : Infrastructure Is Having A Moment In Washington.  High-Speed Rail Is Not.

• McAuliffe campaign to require staff to get coronavirus vaccine (Julia

  Julia Manchester / The Hill : McAuliffe campaign to require staff to get coronavirus vaccine  

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The Hayride

• VIDEO: Rand Paul Is Absolutely Correct, And So Is Ben Domenech

  We have a couple of video clips from this weekend, both of which were awfully impressive to us when we ran

• SADOW: Louisiana Will Suffer From The Democrats’ Work Disincentives

  In Democrats’ headlong rush to bring increased socialism to America, Louisiana looks poised to suffer

• ALEXANDER: Freedom of Conscience, Mandatory Vaccines And Masks

  As the mandatory vaccination and masking debate heats back up with the apparent rise of a new variant of

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Education Property Tax Cuts Worsen Income Inequality in Manitoba

  The Education Property Tax Reduction Act will increase income inequality in Manitoba and will not help

• National child care plan would add up to tens of thousands in savings for

  With federal plans to create a national child care plan that would see fees drop to $10-a-day by 2026

• Letter to the European Commission and EU Member States regarding the TRIPS

  On June 29, 2021, the CCPA joined over 200 civil society organisations from around the world in signing the

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Times of India

• Opposition unity in house not temporary, follows discussions at leadership

• Government may have to take the biggest hit if Vodafone Idea fails

• No transaction with NSO group: Defence ministry's response in

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

• At Sibal dinner, opposition discusses Congress revamp

• ‘Sea levels in Asia have risen faster than global average’

• Teachers plant paddy, send farmers for jabs

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | #FreeJacobZuma campaign calls off High Court gathering after

  Former president Jacob Zuma's supporters have cancelled a planned gathering at the KwaZulu-Natal High

• News24.com | Zuma lawyers to provide medical evidence in support of

  Former president Jacob Zuma's lawyers will give the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg

• News24.com | Medupi explosion: 'Extensive damage' caused, Eskom

  A team was trying to find an external leak.

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Cyril Ramaphosa | Break the cycle of poverty affecting

  As we reflect on the women's march on the Union Buildings 65 years ago this Women's Day, it's

• News24.com | Contact News24's public editor with any complaints and

  Any complaints, queries or suggestions about content on News24 may be sent to our public editor George

• News24.com | Edwin Cameron | Harsh prison terms won’t solve the crisis of

  The certainty of arrest and prosecution, not long sentences, is what deters crime, writes Edwin Cameron.

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Guinea records West Africa's first Marburg virus death

  Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic

• News24.com | Cholera outbreak kills 12 people in Niger, health minister

  A cholera outbreak in southern Niger has killed 12 people and infected 201 others across three regions

• News24.com | SE Nigeria cities shut after separatist protest call

  Markets and businesses closed down on Monday and streets were mostly deserted in cities across southeast

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Epstein accuser takes legal action against Duke of York over alleged

  Ms Giuffre said the lawsuit was brought under the Child Victims Act.

• Tower Bridge in London stuck open after technical failure

  Traffic has built up on both sides of the Thames.

• Jury selection starts in R Kelly sex trafficking case

  The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.

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WebMD Health

• Delta a Concern on Campus: Back to College Amid COVID Surge

  The Biden administration announced several initiatives to promote the safety of in-person college and

• Back to School, Back to COVID-19? Delta Changes the Situation

  Pediatric COVID cases are rising sharply. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says in the last 2 weeks

• Just How Safe Are Neti Pots?

  An expert with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that improper use of the nasal irrigation

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WhoWhatWhy

• State of the Planet: UN to Reveal Landmark IPCC Report Findings

  PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are
• It's always interesting to note dire 'findings' cannot relate to information on things which have not occurred. There is no data.

• Spanish Farmers Fight Forest Fires With Agroforestry (and Many Sheep)

  Shepherds in Galicia turn to traditional techniques of silvopasture to fight forest fires and practice

• Power Grifter

  Donald Trump is raking in cash hand over fist for his “reelection campaign” while refunding millions for

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Science Blog

• Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly

  Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed a strong

• How resistance training burns fat

  Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to

• Neurons that respond to touch are less picky than expected

  Researchers used to believe that individual primary touch-sensitive neatly responded to specific types of

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Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

• Trump wanted the DOJ's help to manipulate Pence: Capitol riot committee

  In an interview with the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed that Donald

• Canada welcomes fully vaccinated Americans across reopened border

  American visitors trickled across the Canada-US border on Monday, cheering the reopening of the world's

• Tucker Carlson mocked after claiming Hungary isn't 'repressive'

  Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent a week in Hungary fawning over autocratic leader Viktor Orbán. Home and

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• IPCC Report - The Verdict Is Out: Methane Has A Bigger Impact On Global

• Human-induced Climate Change Is Already Affecting Weather And Climate

  Human-induced climate change is already affecting weather and climate extremes across the globe, according

• NZ Tech Sector Soaring Since Covid

  New Zealand desperately needs more digitisation to engage with the rest of the world’s rapidly growing

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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

• Quick Step

  I wonder how they got a prototype? (It came out as Quick Step not Kwibble.) I have a cartridge at home with

• I Quit Twitter. Is Trump In Jail Yet?

  I got off Twitter, for a while at least, and it’s wonderful. My concentration is returning. I’m

• We Need a Department of Democracy

  This post first appeared at Imagine Democracy. This post expands on 2019’s

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The Slog

• CLIMATERROR: “Tipping Point” is the new “Pandemic”

  Climate terror is actually Climate Error.

• COVID TETHER-END: Boredom with whoredom

  A charade about a virus seeing off 0.0024% of the Earth’s oldies has gradually, over the last

• BREAKING: Fauci ignored ADE warnings about mRNA. CDC’s own data proves

  State reactions to Covid19 simply do not bear even the most cursory examination.

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Universe Today

• Ganymede in Infrared Taken During Juno’s Most Recent Flyby

  With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of

• Astronomy Jargon: Magnetars

  In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! Hang on to your magnetic

• Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever

  SpaceX achieved another milestone this week as the Starship and Super Heavy prototype were stacked and

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Whistleblower Network News

• COVID Whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright Settles Whistleblower Complaint

  Dr. Rick Bright, a former Health and Human Services (HHS) official who claimed he was fired for raising

• More Whistleblowers Call Attention to Mistreatment of Immigrant Children

  On July 7, two whistleblowers sent a letter to Congress alleging “gross mismanagement and specific

• SEC Whistleblower Denied Award Because He Made Disclosure Before Program

  Eugene Ross is a former Bear Stearns employee who uncovered and exposed widespread fraud, allowing the U.S.

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Andy Worthington

• 2021 is the Year of Catastrophic Climate Change, But Capitalism Doesn’t

  In the year of unprecedented wildfires and flash flooding, we seem to be at a tipping point when it comes

• URGENT ACTION REQUIRED for Six Former Guantánamo Prisoners Repatriated to

  My report about disturbing news regarding six former Guantánamo prisoners who have been repatriated to

• Video: I Discuss the Possible Closure of the Prison at Guantánamo Bay on RT

  Video of my interview with Scottie Nell Hughes on RT America, discussing the possible closure of the prison

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