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Zelo Street

• Is Sarah Vine Telling Us Something?

  In the immediate aftermath of the scandal - with now former Health Secretary Matt Hancock finally resigning

• Another Murdoch Libel Hushed Up

  In June last year, it was announced that “ At last night's digital AGM, the British Academy of Film and

• Hancock And Media Hypocrisy

  The Murdoch Sun has claimed a “ World Exclusive ” for its front page splash this morning, which tells

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Politics : NPR

• Adam Serwer On New Book: 'The Cruelty Is The Point' In Trump's

  NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer about his new book, The Cruelty is

• Trump Heads To U.S.-Mexico Border, Days After Kamala Harris Trip

  Former President Trump is set to visit the Southern border this week, just days after Vice President Kamala

• Mike Gravel, Former Alaska Senator And Anti-War Advocate, Dies At Age 91

  Gravel gained national attention in 1971 when he read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record as

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Five places to see amazing peonies in the UK and Ireland

  Because when they’re gone, they’re gone, says Sam Wylie-Harris.

• Five new books to read this week

  This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson and (

• How to clean your windows like a pro

  It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• ‘Red-hot’ housing market sees prices rise 13% in one year

  House prices have risen for four consecutive quarters for the first time since 2014

• Nphet to give Government advice about reopening in next 48 hours

  The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) will meet tomorrow night and formulate its advice around

• Warm week ahead with temperatures as high as 25 degrees

  Warm, dry and sunny conditions are forecast nationally until Friday.

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memeorandum

• The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out (Michelle

  Michelle Fay Cortez / Bloomberg : The Last-And Only-Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out  

• QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With 'Same Old' Trump Speech: '

  Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek : QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With ‘Same Old’ Trump Speech

• U.S. targets Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Syria strikes (Alex Horton

  Alex Horton / Washington Post : U.S. targets Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Syria strikes   —

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The Hayride

• Senate Panel Deadlocks On Chipman; Swing Voters Now Key To Blocking ATF

  A handful of Senate votes may be all that stands in the way of a “radical” and “divisive&

• BAYHAM: Republican Leges Owe Their Voters A Veto Session

  As expected, the governor vetoed State Senator Beth Mizell’s legislation (SB 156) to reserve

• Jay Johnson’s Top Five Immediate Tasks At LSU

  The news broke last night, and this morning it’s official – Arizona head baseball coach Jay

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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

• Dangerous Distractions: Canada’s carbon emissions and the pathway to net

  Net zero is an increasingly popular term used  by governments and industry as a target for managing our

• Canada’s Energy Sector

  The oil and gas sector alone will cause Canada to exceed its Paris Agreement target. Going into the G7

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Times of India

• Don’t generalise to say Delhi sought 4X oxygen needed: AIIMS chief Guleria

• Seven months of farm protests: Farm unions grapple with risky decision of ‘

• Imran Khan wants relationship with US like the one Washington has with New

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

• India's vaccination drive keeps gaining momentum: PM Modi

  PM Modi was reacting to a tweet of the Union health ministry that put out an infographic saying India has

• Over 1.15 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses still available with states: Centre

• Covid-19 curbs reimposed in Moscow as Asia-Pacific outbreaks flare

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Devastating Delta variant: Data shows how Covid-19 strain is

  President Cyril Ramaphosa has increased lockdown restrictions for the next 14 days and has warned of the

• Businessinsider.co.za | Level 4: Jail for going to church, or a sit-down

  Inciting someone to attend a gathering is now also a criminal offence in South Africa.

• News24.com | All gyms, casinos and cinemas must be closed from today

  The new regulations for the Level 4 lockdown, which was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Cyril Ramaphosa | Eskom and Transnet: Concerns that reform

  Our policy remains that SOEs must play a crucial developmental role in supporting the growth of our economy

• News24.com | OPINION | Dr Fani Ncapayi: Ingonyama Trust and Board hit hard

  The judgment enforces the tenure rights of rural residents. It points out that traditional authorities

• 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

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | 15 killed in horrific Burundi ambush - sources

  At least 15 people were burnt alive or shot dead in a horrific attack in central Burundi after armed men

• News24.com | Sisi makes first Iraq visit by Egyptian leader in decades

  Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, marking the first visit by an

• News24.com | SA and Mozambican state companies to shell out R4.1bn for part

  The gas subsidiaries of South Africa and Mozambique’s state energy companies, which together with Sasol own

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Nude sunbathers rescued from forest after being spooked by deer

  The two men were fined for breaching a public health order after Sydney began a two-week coronavirus

• Australia battles several clusters in new pandemic phase

  The new clusters have highlighted the nation’s slow vaccine rollout with only 5% of the population fully

• Florida rescuers stay hopeful about finding more survivors in rubble

  More than 150 people are still missing.

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WebMD Health

• Lawmakers Seek to Address Medicare Vaccine ‘Sticker Shock’

  Bills introduced in the House and Senate would remove a financial barrier to vaccination for people

• First Signs of MS May Often Go Undiagnosed

  A new study suggests early symptoms of multiple sclerosis may commonly be missed for years before the right

• Can Statins Cause Brain Fog?

  Some people report side effects like brain fog and memory loss with this drug designed to lower cholesterol

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WhoWhatWhy

• The Trinity of Hypocrisy

  If there were a world record in irony, then the US Conference of Catholic Bishops would have broken it this

• How to Solve the Climate and Biodiversity Crises Together

  Global climate change and the unprecedented loss of species currently underway result from a similar suite

• Take This Job and Shove It

  A record 4 million Americans quit their jobs in April, looking for more money and better working conditions

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Science Blog

• Researchers find optimal way to pay off student loans

  After graduating or leaving college, many students face a difficult choice: Try to pay off their student

• Elephants Solve Problems with Personality

  Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the Journal of Comparative

• Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptive to Sleep

  Most people listen to music throughout their day and often near bedtime to wind down. But can that actually

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Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

• John Oliver schools Susan Collins in epic takedown — calling her more

  "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver handed it to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) after she delivered a

• Unemployment wasn't keeping people from work as Republicans claimed

  Republicans promoted the conspiracy theory that Americans weren't going back to work amid the COVID-19

• Toyota draws backlash for supporting GOP insurrectionists: 'So Toyota

  The car company Toyota is drawing criticism from those on the left for releasing a statement saying that

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Antarctic Blast

  MetService is forecasting a blast of Antarctic air rolling over Aotearoa in the next few days, bringing

• To Flush Or Not To Flush (Your Transmission) – That Is The Question

  There are a lot of specific services car owners have not always really considered in the past – especially

• 300BCE Mummy Shroud Fragment In NZ Finds Match In US

  A 2,300-year old fragment of linen from the wrap of an Egyptian mummy, which is held in the University of

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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

• Infrastructure “Deal”

  So there’s a “bipartisan deal” on infrastructure that cuts out much of the original

• We Are In Pre-WWII Germany

  I was thinking about the emotional desire for normal times we see in so many of our elites. It’s

• Blog Hero Award — Atrios

  I used to give a Blog Hero Award. Now “Atrios” has written one of the best blog posts ever so I

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The Slog

• TODAY’S LONDON DEMO: the beginning of the end for élite hanky-panky

  The Matt Hankypanky affair (if that’s not too narrow a term) is alternately hilarious, mysterious, a

• Five Whoppers & a Funny bit

  John Ward has concluded that the answer's a lie - now what's the question?

• Raise your vision above the trees, and you might see the rotten wood

  Data dystopia, monetised caution & the strangled Voyager Gene Yesterday I spent two hours going through

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Universe Today

• Most Exoplanets won’t Receive Enough Radiation to Support an Earth-Like

  According to new research, most extrasolar planets do not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis

• LightSail 2 Has Now Been in Space for 2 Years, and Should Last Even Longer

  The Planetary Society’s crowdfunded solar-sailing CubeSat, LightSail 2, launched on June 25th 2019

• Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Sense Merging Primordial Black Holes With

  A new idea for detecting gravitational waves might allow us to discover planet-mass primordial black holes.

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Whistleblower Network News

• Leading European MP Endorses Effective Whistleblower Laws

  In a recent interview with Whistleblower Network News, Member of Parliament (MP) Sebastian Burduja

• SEC Charges Guggenheim Securities for Violation of Whistleblower Protection

  On June 23, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it settled charges against

• AstraZeneca Whistleblower To Receive $2.4 Million For Damages And Lost

  On June 22, a federal jury awarded AstraZeneca whistleblower Suzanne Ivie over $2.4 million in back pay and

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Andy Worthington

• On UN Torture Day, Please Remember the 40 Torture Victims Still Held at

  On the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, marking the day, in 1987, when the UN

• Who Are the Two “Forever Prisoners” Approved for Release from Guantánamo by

  The stories of Abdulsalam al-Hela and Sharqawi al-Hajj, the two Guantánamo prisoners approved for release

• Remembering the Stonehenge Free Festival 37 Years On, and the Video of Last

  My thoughts on the summer solstice, 37 years after the last Stonehenge Free Festival, as 'Managed Open

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