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Zelo Street

• A Serious Sabbatical

  I have to take a break. It may be a few days, it may be longer. But a break has to be taken. So there will

• Australia Rejects Murdoch

  It is the country where it all began: where so much of the print and online media, and indeed broadcast

• Sickness Of The Press EXPOSED

  O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us; To see oursels as ithers see us! The words of Robert Burns were

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Politics : NPR

• John Durham's case against lawyer Michael Sussman ends in acquittal

  A jury has acquitted lawyer Michael Sussmann on the charge of lying to the FBI, dealing a blow to special

• Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 31)

  A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

• Special Counsel Durham fails first courtroom test in his three-year probe

  Michael Sussmann was acquitted of one charge of lying to the FBI in the first verdict rendered during the

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Frenchman begins world bungee jump record challenge off Scottish bridge

  Francois-Marie Dibon has trained for five years to beat the current world record of 430 bungee jumps in 24

• How to have the stamina to survive festivals after a few years off

  Festivals are notorious for little sleep, fried food and more booze than normal – so how can you make sure

• New Love Island villa unveiled ahead of series launch

  The popular dating show returns to screens next Monday on ITV2 and the ITV Hub.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Cabinet approves plan for urgent data retention laws after Graham Dwyer

  Legislation proposed by Minister Helen McEntee aims to address the impact of a recent judgement at the

• Aer Lingus flight from Dublin declares emergency over the Irish Sea

  The flight, en route to Manchester, had to return to Dublin Airport shortly after take-off

• Six-year-old dies in 'tragic accident' at hotel swimming pool in

  The child was taken to Crumlin Children's Hospital but later died

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memeorandum

• Europe beefs up trade armoury for long-term fight with China (Finbarr

  Finbarr Bermingham / South China Morning Post : Europe beefs up trade armoury for long-term fight with

• U.S. asks court to reverse order lifting airplane mask mandate (David

  David Shepardson / Reuters : U.S. asks court to reverse order lifting airplane mask mandate  

• Sarah Palin Didn't Supply 'Even A Speck' Of Proof In New York

  Larry Neumeister / Associated Press : Sarah Palin Didn't Supply ‘Even A Speck’ Of Proof

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The Hayride

• APPEL: Biden’s Gaslighting Americans On The State Of Our Economy

  Have you seen President Biden’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal? Well, I know he didn’t write it, but

• KENNEDY: It’s Time To Strike Back Against Foreign Cybercriminals

  In 2015, Russian cybercriminals posed as ISIS members and targeted a military wife with a chilling message:

• “WE’RE MOVING:” Weaponized Governmental Failure Pays Off In New Orleans

  Here’s about as perfect a description of modern Democrat governance as you can get. From Fox 8 in New

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Winnipeg's Alternative Municipal Budget 2022 - Winnipeg at a

  17 Chapters! 27 Contributors! A community effort to establish a City Budget that takes into account

• Ontario school board funding fell by $800 per student over four years: CCPA

  A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that the  Ministry of Education

• Upcoming event: Mexico's failure to protect the vaquita porpoise: the

  April 26, 12 –1 pm EDT Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register

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Times of India

• J&K: Migrant Kashmiri Pandit teacher shot dead by terrorists in Kulgam

  The injured woman teacher, a Hindu and resident of Samba (Jammu division) succumbed to her injuries, the

• Satyendar Jain, Delhi health minister, arrested by ED in money laundering

  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain on Monday evening after

• In 8 years, no reason to hang head in shame: PM Modi

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday summed up his eight years in office so far as a relentless pursuit

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

• Chandra relying on 13 Independent MLAs and smaller parties

• 48 foreign universities interested in UGC’s twinning initiative

• Supreme Court: Education has become an industry, fees prohibitive

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Comair suspends its kulula.com, British Airways flights

  The flights are suspended pending Comair successfully securing additional funding.

• News24.com | Petrol, diesel hikes announced for Wednesday

  Petrol and diesel prices will still see sizeable hikes on Wednesday - despite the extension of the petrol

• News24.com | Two Dale College Boys' Primary School hockey players

  Two pupils from Dale College Boys' Primary School were killed and 14 others injured in an accident on

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | OPINION | Australian, Canada high commissioners: We stand by

  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unprovoked, unjust and illegal. It is not only a threat to stability in

• News24.com | ANALYSIS | The unresolved puzzle: Why does resource-rich

  Africa is blessed with vast and fertile mineral resources in abundance. However, the level of hunger in the

• News24.com | OPINION | Herbert Kanengoni: The impact of ambiguity on work

  Herbert Kanengoni examines the meaning of organisational well-being and quality of work-life, post the

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | UK aims to send the first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda on

  Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks' time, as part of a policy

• News24.com | 'Situation is set to get worse' - drought threatens

  Millions of people face severe hunger in the Horn of Africa as the worst drought in more than 40 years

• News24.com | Talk to us: How does the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit

  Are you affected by the decision by government to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit? News24 wants

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Man found dead in alligator-filled lake near disc golf course

  The unidentified man was looking for flying discs in the water and ‘a gator was involved’, police in

• Experts: Iran disrupts internet as tower collapse deaths reach 36

  Outrage and grief over the disaster continued to grow in the country.

• Hurricane Agatha sets May record before weakening over Mexico

  The storm hit Oaxaca state on Monday afternoon as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained

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WebMD Health

• 'Smart Inhalers' May Help Diagnose and Treat Asthma – If Used

  Digital monitoring devices can help diagnose and treat hard-to-control asthma, potentially reducing the

• Type 2 Diabetes Speeds Aging in the Brain

  A new study suggests type 2 diabetes is linked to memory and thinking problems, and it's because the

• WHO Calls Monkeypox Pandemic Unlikely as CDC Issues Alert

  Globally, 23 countries have reported 257 confirmed monkeypox cases, along with 127 suspected cases.

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Science Blog

• SMART researchers enable early-stage detection of microbial contamination

• Convenience-sized RNA editing

• Cuttlefish camouflage may be more complex than previously thought

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Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

• Federalist Society captured our courts — now the GOP will abandon states

  The dynamics motivating the Republican Party and control of the courts by far-right judges will converge to

• Lin Wood loses appeal to block Georgia bar from seeking mental health exam

  A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that attorney Lin Wood cannot sue to stop the Georgia state bar

• Chiropractor with history of sex offenses faces new charges, lawsuit and

  A state-licensed chiropractor with a history of sex offenses has agreed to stop seeing patients due to new

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• PM’s Science Prize For Preventing Brain Damage In Newborns

  Congratulations to the winners of the Prime Minister’s Science Prize, Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a Te Pirimia,

• Scientists Use More Maori Bird Names

  A new edition of the ‘Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand’ was published by Birds New Zealand this week.

• Snapped! Tag Reveals Fish’s 20-year History

  A fish has been caught in the same location that it was tagged, nearly 20 years ago to the day. Mr Chilt

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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

• Inflation and Modern Monetary Theory- MMT

  How many of you have heard about “MMT” – Modern Monetary Theory? MMT says federal

• How To Fix The World

  I have come to believe it is a waste of time to discuss “policy” anymore. Billionaires and

• The Far Left

  Advocating for government to do things that make people’s lives better means you are on the “

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The Slog

• Deconstructing the Elon Musk fantasy, and quantifying the spooks’ ability

  An outcome whereby Musk gets control of Twitter would be nothing more or less than cutting out the middle

• EXPOSED: the cynical money-to-power of Western energy geopolitics players

  There are very few of them, but they are horribly malformed humans who can only be stopped by quantified

• Sunday Smiles

  If we accept the principle of equality of opportunity, why do we seem unable to grasp the Equality of Evil?

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Universe Today

• Could we Detect Dark Matter’s Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?

  A team of astronomers studied two nearby globular clusters, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, searching for

• Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze

  Way back in the late 1980s, the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune. During the flybys, we got

• Hubble Sees Two Spiral Galaxies Together

  Two peculiar spiral galaxies are in the latest image release from the Hubble Space Telescope. The two

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Whistleblower Network News

• The Baby Formula Shortage, A Whistleblower Ignored, and a Struggling Agency

  After a February recall of powdered infant formula manufactured in an Abbott Laboratories facility in

• Sen. Grassley Urges Supreme Court to Maintain False Claims Act’s Strength

  On May 20, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari

• SEC Announces First Enforcement Action by ESG Task Force

  On May 23, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges against BNY Mellon

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Andy Worthington

• “A Good Man With A Lot to Offer This World”: Khaled Qassim’s Attorney Urges

  My report about the case of Khaled Qassim, one of the last five "forever prisoners" in Guantánamo

• Now on YouTube: Tidemill Documentary ‘The Battle for Deptford’ Celebrates

  My review of Hat Vickers' documentary film 'The Battle for Deptford', now available for free on

• Videos: Speeches at the Close Guantánamo Protest in London, Jan. 8, 2022

  Recently discovered videos of speakers at the rally for the closure of Guantánamo that was held in London

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