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The American Dream

• Here Are 5 New “Pestilences” That Have Suddenly Appeared Around The Globe

  Mysterious new outbreaks of disease are erupting all over the planet.  Should we be alarmed?  Over the past few years, we have all seen how rapidly an outbreak can spread.  A few confirmed cases in one part of the world can become a true global...

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• He Is Buying The Company, But Elon Musk’s Battle For Control Of Twitter Is Just Beginning

  When it was announced that Elon Musk would be buying Twitter, millions upon millions of people all over the globe greatly rejoiced.  Many anticipated that there would immediately be dramatic changes at Twitter, but that simply is not going...

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• How 22 Celebrities Reacted When They Learned That Elon Musk Had Just Bought Twitter…

  He did it!  Elon Musk actually bought Twitter, and I am absolutely thrilled.  It is about time that one of these billionaires did something good with their money.  The major social media platforms are where we all used to go to debate the issues...

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CNET

• Samsung Notches Another Record Revenue in First Quarter - CNET

  Sales of chips and the new Galaxy S22 phones help the company hits its third straight quarter of record revenue.

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• Avatar: The Movie That History Forgot - CNET

  To this day Avatar is the most financially successful movie ever made. So why the hell has everyone decided to collectively forget about its existence?

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• The Best Fantasy TV Shows on Prime Video - CNET

  Here are Prime Video's best fantasy series to spend a night in with.

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Dandelion Salad

• Disrupt! Interrupt! The Ground of Resistance is Ours

  The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published November 18, 2016 April 27, 2022 A smoothly functioning society is created and maintained by the people. Children go to school, workers show up...

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• As Calls For Unions Grow, It is Worth Revisiting the Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Kenn Orphan

  by Kenn Orphan Writer, Dandelion Salad Halifax, Nova Scotia April 26, 2022 “You are doing many things here in this struggle. You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor. So often we overlook the work and the significance...

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• Vijay Prashad: Any Critic of US Imperialism is Accused of Being a Stooge for Somebody, Part 2

  Image by PHOTObyTED via SmugMug Dandelion Salad theAnalysis-news on Apr 4, 2022 In this segment, we’re going to talk more about why Russia invaded and what’s driving Vladimir Putin and Russian policy. Vijay Prashad joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news...

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The Economic Collapse

• Locations In The U.S. That You Should Avoid At All Costs If A Nuclear War With Russia Erupts

  Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nukes again.  If Russia ultimately decides to conduct a surprise first strike, are you living near a location that is likely to get nuked?  Many people assume that the vast majority of the U.S. population...

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• Stocks Are Cratering As Investors Worry About “The Perfect Storm” That Is Erupting All Over The Globe

  Is the party finally over on Wall Street?  So far this month, the Dow is down more than 4 percent, the S&P 500 is down almost 8 percent, and the Nasdaq has fallen over 12 percent.  In fact, the Nasdaq dropped almost 4 percent on Tuesday alone...

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• On Top Of Everything Else, Drought, Drought And More Drought Is On The Way For The Western U.S.

  Are you ready for more bad news about our food supply?  In recent weeks, I have extensively covered a confluence of factors which are combining to create a global food crisis of immense size and scope.  But one thing that I haven’t written...

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Eurasia Review

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  HRW Calls For UN To Support Impartial Justice For War Crimes In Ukraine

  United Nations Security Council members should use an informal meeting on accountability for serious crimes in Ukraine to highlight the importance of impartial justice and coordination of a wide range of international accountability...

  38 minutes ago   When does Iraq get justice ? Libya ? Somalia ? The nation with the biggest military budget (by far) runs drone assassination as if it was a virtue. Where are the calls for U.S. accountability ? Hypocrites.
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  1991: When America Tried To Keep Ukraine In The USSR – OpEd

  By Ryan McMaken* The US government today likes to pretend that it is the perennial champion of political independence for countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain. What is often forgotten, however, is that in the days following the...

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  US Options On Russia-Ukraine – OpEd

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has a way of periodically saying things that can applied right back at him. During his recent meeting in Kiev, Blinken declared that Ukraine will exist longer than Russian President Vladimir Putin. As a...

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Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 23, 2022, #350

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Power structures are doing their best to further fuel crop collapse all over the world. Constant contamination and overexploitation continue in our oceans, fisheries are collapsing. Our once...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, April 16, 2022, #349

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The pendulum of engineered weather and temperature extremes continues to swing back and forth in so many regions of the world. Climate chaos is inflicting profound damage on ecosystems, food supplies...

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  Imminent Ozone Layer Collapse, A Dire Warning From A Former NASA Contract Engineer

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Does the sun feel scorching hot? A former aerospace avionics engineer who worked with NASA has been conducting testing for Geoengineering Watch with state of the art UV metering equipment supplied...

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intelNews.org

• Australian spies helped expose secret pact between China and Solomon Islands

  AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE HAD A role in the mysterious disclosure of a secret memorandum about a controversial defense pact between China and the Solomon Islands, which is causing consternation in the West...

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• Russian sleeper agent Mikhail Vasenkov reportedly dead at 79

  RUSSIAN DEEP-COVER SPY Mikhail Vasenkov, who was caught by authorities in the United States in 2010, and was later part of a multi-person spy-swap between Washington and Moscow, has reportedly died.

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• British government phones were hacked with Pegasus spy software, group claims

  TELEPHONE SYSTEMS BELONGING TO the British government were compromised by the Pegasus surveillance software, according to a Canadian research group.

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Joniopolis

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  Quality Not In Control

             We’ve all been on the phone and heard the disclaimer: “This conversation may be recorded for quality control purposes.”           And yet—you have to agree with me—the quality never improves. Right?  The...

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  The Truth About Growing Up

              Here’s how it is. When you’re little, you have your own bed, often in your own bedroom. You have your own closet, chest of drawers, and sometimes you have your own bathroom.            And then you get married and...

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  Worst Weed in the World

  You are not going to believe this. I don’t believe it, and I saw it with my own eyes.           There is a weed that virtually explodes, sending out            5,000 seeds and infesting the ground as far as 10 feet away...

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Niqnaq

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  Fierce Battles And Slow Progress On Front Lines In Ukraine South Front, Apr 27 2022 https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/27.04.2022_IMR_Ukraine.mp4 Amid fierce clashes between the Russian and Ukrainian Armies in Donbass...

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• helen of destroy

  Elon Musk Will Not Save Twitter Helen of desTroy, Apr 27 2022 You know the media has done a number on your brain when you find yourself cheering the acquisition of one of the largest social media platforms on the internet by a guy who has more money...

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• uk column

  UK Column News UK Column, Apr 27 2022 Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Alex Thomson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Landmark UN Report Issues Stark call for Sustainable Land Management to Save Human Health

  The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s Global Land Outlook warns that only through protection of existing ecosystems and revival of degraded lands and soils will biodiversity loss be halted and pandemic-risk reduction...

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• Two Months after the Start of the War, Food Insecurity Continues to Grow

  This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General of FAO

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• Big Business Depletes Nature, Big Business Supplants Nature with Synthetic Food

  In case you were not aware, please know that humanity used to cultivate more than 6.000 plant species for food, but now instead fewer than 200 of these species make major contributions to food production. Out of these, only 9% account for 66%...

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The Moderate Voice

• DESANTIS WORLD (MIKE PETERS GUEST CARTOON)

  You are here: Home / International / Russia / Trump and Putin (Mike Peters Guest Cartoon) Trump and Putin (Mike Peters Guest Cartoon) February 24, 2022 by Guest Voice 0 Comments (Edit) Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent...

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• Twitter: not even Elon Musk is wealthy enough to bring absolute free speech to the platform – here’s why

  The Elon ranger. thongyhod Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. If anyone can turn cyberspace into a heaven – or hell – of free speech “absolutism” via a US$44 billion (£35...

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• Progressive Twitter accounts lose followers, conservatives gain

  Published by AFP San Francisco (AFP) – Key figures on the American left, Barack Obama among them, have shed thousands of followers since Elon Musk’s planned purchase of Twitter emerged, while numbers have soared for right-wing politicians. ...

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Mother Jones

• Charges Connected to Trump White House Are Part of a Broader Probe Into Qatar Influence

  A former US Ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates faces criminal charges for joining in a secret lobbying campaign on behalf of the Qatar government to influence the Trump White House and Congress in 2017. In a court filings unsealed...

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• MAGA’s Knives Are Out for Kevin McCarthy

  It’s no secret that politicians have a shaky relationship with the truth. But few have been caught in such glaring, bald-faced lies as Kevin McCarthy. After the top Republican categorically denied a New York Times report last week that he...

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• The Folly of Ramping Up American Gas Exports to Europe

  This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the span of weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has created millions of refugees, transformed the geopolitical landscape...

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The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Southern California declares first-ever water shortage emergency, imposes unprecedented water usage restrictions, U.S.

  fficials in Southern California have declared a water shortage emergency for the first time ever and imposed unprecedented outdoor water usage restrictions on roughly 6 million people. Source

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  Wildfires scorch northern New Mexico, U.S.

  Strong, gusty winds, extremely low humidity and an exceedingly dry landscape fueled an early and severe fire season in New Mexico, U.S. Source

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  Bright fireball over southern Ontario expected to have dropped meteorites, Canada

  A bright fireball was observed by a network of all-sky cameras across southern Ontario, Canada at 05:37 UTC on April 18, 2022. Analysis of the video data suggests that fragments of the meteor are likely to have made it to the ground near the eastern...

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WebMD Health

• Child Hepatitis Cases Detected in Illinois, Canada, Japan

  A growing number of severe child hepatitis cases have been detected in the United States and around the world. The cause of the cases is still uncertain.

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• Unvaccinated People Create Higher Risk for Vaccinated, Study Says

  People who don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 are creating a “disproportionate” threat to the health of vaccinated people, even in places with high vaccination rates, says a study published in the Canadian Medical Association...

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• 'Brain Zap' Technology May Help Hardcore Smokers Quit

  According to a new study, using low-intensity electric or magnetic impulses helped people go without smoking cigarettes.

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WhoWhatWhy

• Wildlife Conservation Can Help Stabilize the Climate: Study

  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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• How Beef and Leather Supply Chains Pose Threat to South America’s Last Forest

  Despite deforestation pledges, agribusiness is still clearing forest in the Gran Chaco — but Indigenous people are fighting to expel ranchers from their ancestral lands

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• A Look Inside a Pro-Russia Telegram Channel

  In May 2020, the first post of the Telegram channel U_G_M — a Ukrainian flag emblazoned with a swastika — set the tone for what was to follow.

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