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The American Dream

• Would You Rather Have Attended America’s Public Schools In 1968 Or America’s Public Schools Today?

  Everybody pretty much agrees that public education in the United States is in a really bad place right now.  Test scores are falling, graduation rates in many of our largest cities are depressingly low, and there is way, way too much violence...

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• Putin Warns That The World Is Going Down A Road That Leads To Nuclear War

  These days, most people in the western world give very little thought to what a nuclear war might be like.  And that is very strange, because we are actually closer to a global nuclear war than we have ever been before.  If a conflict between...

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• Let’s Compare The Physical Condition Of Young Americans In 1962 To The Physical Condition Of Young Americans Today

  There was a reason why we were once so respected by the rest of the world.  Once upon a time, Americans were incredibly sharp mentally, emotionally and physically.  A few days ago, video footage of what high school physical education was like...

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CNET

• Biden's pro-net neutrality pick for FCC calls Republican criticism 'unfair' and 'false' - CNET

  In her second hearing, President Biden's nominee, Gigi Sohn, said Republicans' opposition to her is all about hamstringing the FCC.

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• Where to stream all the Oscars nominees, from West Side Story to Dune - CNET

  Here are the titles now available on your streaming services (and some you can't stream yet).

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• You could claim up to $16,000 for child care expenses on your taxes. Here's how - CNET

  For one child, you could get up to $8,000 back, or up to $16,000 back for multiple kids this year.

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Dandelion Salad

• A Communist Intervention: Reflections on Crisis, Revolution, and Personal Responsibility, by Paul Street

  by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street, Feb. 4, 2022 February 9, 2022 The End of Bourgeois Democracy This is a communist intervention. It’s time to pull our heads out of our asses. Along with an ongoing fascisation...

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• Abby Martin: Israel Gets Georgia to Strip Free Speech Rights (Again) + Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians

  Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin Empire Files on Feb 6, 2022 After Abby’s major legal victory getting Georgia’s anti-BDS law ruled unenforceable, Israel has hit back by getting the State Legislature to keep this brazenly unconstitutional...

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• The Warmongers Miscalculated, by David Swanson

  Image by PHOTObyTED via SmugMug by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Feb. 5, 2022 February 7, 2022 Video from the White House on Saturday: We've heard these lies before. Sean recounts how the US State Dept's @StateDeptSpox...

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The Economic Collapse

• Now The Mainstream Media Is Telling Us That “More Trouble Is Ahead” For the U.S. Economy

  The last couple of years have not been pleasant, and so nobody wants to hear that more trouble is ahead for the U.S. economy.  Unfortunately, that is precisely what the mainstream media is telling us right now.  A year ago, so many of the talking...

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• Rampant Drug Shortages! Right Now There Are Shortages Of 116 Different Pharmaceutical Drugs In The United States

  Global supplies of pharmaceutical drugs are getting tighter and tighter, and this has very serious implications for 2022 and beyond.  If you depend upon a certain pharmaceutical drug in order to stay alive, I would recommend doing whatever...

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• We Have Never Been More Vulnerable, And The Stage Has Now Been Set For A Complete And Total Economic Collapse

  Teetering on a precipice can seem exciting until something comes along that knocks you over the edge.  Unfortunately, the events of the past couple of years have perfectly set the stage for a global economic collapse of unprecedented size...

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Eurasia Review

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  Myanmar: Junta-AA Clash Leaves Two Civilians Dead In Maungdaw Twsp

  A third clash in less than a week took place between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) at a location between Phar Wat Chaung village and Ngan Chaung (Muslim) village in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township at about 11 p.m. on Monday...

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  China: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health In Peril

  The Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release the imprisoned Tibetan monk and religious philosopher Go Sherab Gyatso, Human Rights Watch said today. Close associates outside of Tibet say Go Sherab Gyatso’s...

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  Bickering Gatekeepers: The Endeavour Spat – OpEd

  They found it.  Or so we can surmise from the confident words of the Australian National Maritime Museum.  The Endeavour is a ship that will be considered alongside other vessels as monumental in its achievement and cursed in its contributions. ...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, February 5, 2022, #339

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Engineered winter weather continues to be the focus of the global climate intervention cabal for the moment. In order to create the temporary and toxic surface cool-down scenarios, other regions...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, January 29, 2022, #338

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Is engineered winter weather yet again being waged on US East Coast population centers? Are the same highly toxic chemical ice nucleation surface cool-downs also the core cause of the...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, January 22, 2022, #337

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Ongoing and accelerating climate intervention operations continue to further fuel freeze/fry and drought/deluge extremes all over the world. After all the highly sensationalized corporate...

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intelNews.org

• Even Russian military commanders don’t know what Putin’s plans are on Ukraine

  EVEN RUSSIAN MILITARY COMMANDERS and intelligence officials on the ground near the Ukrainian border are in the dark about whether the Kremlin intends to invade Ukraine in the coming weeks, according to a report...

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• Even Russian military commanders don’t know Putin’s plans about Ukraine

  EVEN RUSSIAN MILITARY COMMANDERS and intelligence officials on the ground near the Ukrainian border are in the dark about whether the Kremlin intends to invade Ukraine in the coming weeks, according to a report...

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• North Korea uses stolen cryptocurrency to fund its missile program, UN report claims

  THE NORTH KOREAN MISSILE program has developed rapidly in the past year, partly due to an influx of stolen cryptocurrency, which has now become “an important revenue source” for Pyongyang, according to a United Nations report...

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Joniopolis

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  My Second Childhood

           Let’s start with the truth: You can’t have a second childhood if you’re still having your first one. And I have never, truly, grown up. Every week I still play with the absolutely adorable little girl who lives across the street...

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  Beyond the Pale

             Maybe it’s because I’m adopted, but I find genetics fascinating. Someone with brown eyes could have kids with any eye color.  Brown is dominant, and it can conceal lots of fun surprises.          I, on the other hand...

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  Guess Where it's Not Cold

           I’ve been seeing numerous social media posts about huge snowfalls.           Everyone seems to be layering, sniffling, shivering, and turning up the heater.           Everyone except me.  I am...

  17 days ago

Niqnaq

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  The Scandal Involving Greenpeace In Russia South Front, Feb 9 2022 https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/09.02.2022_IMR_Greenpeace.mp4 Last week, several Russian media outlets accused Greenpeace of subversive activities...

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• vanessa beeley

  The plague of forever war in Syria Facts on the Ground, Feb 8 2022

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• wsws

  EU powers endorse NATO war threats against Russia as Macron visits Ukraine Alex Lantier, WSWS, Feb 9 2022 Territorial Defense Forces train in a park in Kyiv, Jan 22 2022. (Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP) Yesterday, as Macron and Baerbock visited...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Many Good Reasons to Eat More Pulses – And Perhaps Less Meat!

  Pulses and meat are both needed as part of your diet, however… While the total emissions of greenhouse gases from global livestock amount to 7.1 Gigatonnes of Co2-equivalent per year, representing 14.5% of all anthropogenic emissions...

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• From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest

  In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty stomachs even when the rest of the country harvested bumper yields. This is because the area in southern Malawi is prone to both floods and drought...

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• Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires’ Rise in India

  If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest, thanks to endemic features unique to the country such as the caste system. “It is not widely understood but India does not have...

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The Moderate Voice

• Mountain glaciers may hold less ice than previously thought – here’s what that means for 2 billion downstream water users and sea level rise

  Mountain glaciers are under threat from global warming. Phunjo Lama/AFP via Getty Images Mathieu Morlighem, Dartmouth College Mountain glaciers are essential water sources for nearly a quarter of the global population. But figuring out...

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• US National Archives requests legal probe of Trump: media report

  Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The US National Archives, which manages the preservation of presidential documents, requested that the Justice Department investigate former president Donald Trump for his handling of official documents...

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• Trump Sent ‘Burn Bags’ Of Sensitive Documents To Be Destroyed At Pentagon

  Published by uPolitics.com Former President Donald Trump‘s habit of destroying documents didn’t stop at tearing them up. The Washington Post has reported that Trump also used burn bags. The torn-up documents would be stuffed into bags...

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Mother Jones

• Sick Kansas Republican, Absent for Entire Legislative Session, Shows Up to Enact Gerrymandered Map

  An anti-vaccine Kansas Republican, sick with an undisclosed illness, was so dedicated to overriding a Democratic governor’s veto of a gerrymandered congressional map that he reportedly showed up to the statehouse for the first time in...

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• The Offensive, Bizarre, and Offensively Bizarre Questions Republicans Have Asked Ketanji Brown Jackson

  Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often more a forum for primetime senatorial grandstanding and culture war skirmishes than a process for eliciting useful information from the nominees. That’s likely to be even more true when the...

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• Here Are the Things Ron DeSantis Thinks Are “Woke”

  Big Tech? Woke. Infrastructure spending? Woke. Academia? Definitely woke. The word that was once a rallying cry for Black Americans to stay alert to racial injustices has been co-opted by the conservative right to denounce any educational...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  40 SpaceX Starlink satellites lost after geomagnetic storm hits Earth

  A geomagnetic storm affecting Earth on Friday, February 4, 2022, significantly impacted 40 of 49 SpaceX Starlink satellites launched to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 3. Preliminary...

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  The number of casualties caused by Tropical Cyclone "Batsirai" increased to 21, Madagascar

  Tropical Cyclone "Batsirai" made landfall just north of the city of Mananjary, Madagascar's Vatovavy region, on February 5, 2022, with wind speeds of 165 km/h (102 mph) and wind gusts of up to 230 km/h (143 mph). Preliminary information showed...

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  More than 100 avalanches hit Austria, claiming the lives of at least 9 people

  At least 9 people have died in Austria after more than 100 avalanches struck the country in just three days. Authorities described the situation as unprecedented and warned more avalanches can be expected in the days ahead. Most of the avalanches...

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WebMD Health

• Omicron Death Rate Higher Than During Delta Surge

  With the Omicron variant now accounting for almost 100% of COVID-19 cases in the United States, the seven-day average of daily COVID-related deaths hit 2,600 recently, the highest rate in about a year...

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• Immune-Based Therapy Shows Promise Against Advanced Breast Cancers

  Early research suggests an experimental therapy that harnesses the body's tumor-fighting immune cells may be effective for some women with advanced breast cancer.

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• Vermont House Approves Abortion Rights Amendment

  The Vermont legislature approved a state constitutional amendment that would guarantee a woman's right to an abortion if it is approve by voters in the November general election.

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WhoWhatWhy

• IRS to End Use of Facial Recognition to Identify Taxpayers

  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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• Is There Light at the End of the Iran Nuclear Tunnel?

  After months of painstaking negotiations, a revival of the Iran nuclear deal appears within reach. It is also on the verge of complete collapse.

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• Battery-Powered Trains Are Picking Up Speed

  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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