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Utopia – you are standing in it!

• George Selgin | American Institute for Economic Research

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• Corrado Soprano talk with a lawyer

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• Joseph Stalin: Waiting For Hitler (Part 2)

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TARPLEY.net

• Time to aggressively prosecute Trump machine to the fullest extent of the law!

  House AND Senate committees close in on GOP crimes of January 6 and in months-long effort to use Department of Justice to subvert November vote count; Mitch blinks on debt default; Jobless rate falls from 5.2% to 4.8% in a month, but Wall Street’s...

  7 days ago

• Trump forces seen preparing creeping coup against US Constitution!

  Biden calls for patience to pass bipartisan infrastructure bill; Reconciliation bill likely to shrink below $3.5tr target; Neocons scare liberals with defeatist putsch scenarios, but forget Trump lacks magical powers; Government shutdown...

  14 days ago

• Arizona election fraudit by cyber-nimrods ends in humiliating fiasco

  Arizona election fraudit by cyber-nimrods ends in humiliating fiasco for MAGAts, confirming Biden win; On orders from Trump, Texas launches own fraudit; Pennsylvania GOP wants to intimidate all voters; Trump sponsors puppet secretaries...

  21 days ago

Sustainable Pulse

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  Expert Groups Urge European Health Commissioner to Base Glyphosate Assessment on Independent Science

  41 civil society organizations, including several of the organizers of the successful European Citizens’ Initiative #StopGlyphosate, have urged the EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to guarantee that the ongoing assessment...

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  Switzerland Extends its GMO Ban Explicitly Covering Gene-Editing

  The Swiss National Council (lower house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the parliament of Switzerland) has extended the moratorium on the cultivation of genetically modified plants in agriculture by another four years until the end of...

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• Hm. Think that should include alleged Covid 'vaccines' ?

sunshine hours

• Wind Turbine Fall Down Go Boom

  Only 13 years old. They die so young. “the company is asking the public to avoid the remote area, along with the sub-stations, access roads and more than 50 other wind turbines that populate the vast… More...

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 286 – 2021

  . South / North

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 285 – 2021

  Just the Arctic today  . South / North

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• Biden shifts to a more conciliatory approach toward China

  BY BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Hill In a defiant speech on Aug. 31, President Biden claimed that his precipitous exit from Afghanistan, which facilitated the terrorist takeover of that country, would allow the United States to focus on...

  7 days ago

• A Striking Paradox: The U.S. Engages Taliban But Isolates Myanmar

  Naypyitaw’s generals treated as bigger threat than the terrorists controlling Kabul Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia No sooner had the Taliban completed their lightning-quick conquest of Afghanistan than U.S. Secretary of State Antony...

  15 days ago

• Biden rewards Xi’s hostage diplomacy

  BRAHMA CHELLANEY, The Globe and Mail There is an old Chinese idiom: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” And in the political crossfire between Washington and Beijing over the 2018 Canadian arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on...

  16 days ago

Ramani's blog

• Shiva Temple Arizona US 10,000 Years Old Study By NATURE

  Now I have come across a research article in Nature and I am reproducing except from the expedition undertaken. The Shiva temple is dated at least 10,000 ago.

  15 days ago

• Navantika Ancient Indian Medical Text On Drugs In Oxford

  One important point is to find out where the ancient texts are now . One must remember that most of Indian philosophy,nay nearly all of it, has been transmitted orally since five thousand years ago.We should thank our ancestors for their foresight...

  15 days ago

• Best Probiotic For Gut , Immunity Recepie Saar Theertham, Nutritionists

  This water is called Saar Theertham, Essence of Rice and Water.This used to be consumed daily in Our homes daily.We eat the rice, which we have kept aside from the water with Pickles preferably,Tender mango,மாவடு. This is called...

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Texas: Teachers Told to Teach “Opposing Views” of Holocaust and Slavery

  As part of the Republican effort to eliminate teaching about slavery, racism, and other injustices, the state has banned “critical race theory” and requires teaching “both sides” of controversies. In the Carroll Independent School...

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• Carol Burris: The Myth of “Charter School Enrollment Growth” During Pandemic

  On September 22, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools put out a press release boasting of unprecedented enrollment growth during the pandemic. The report asserted that charter school enrollment increased during the pandemic...

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• The Sad and Unfree Life of an Anti-Vaxxer

  A few days ago, I was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge heading towards Brooklyn and saw that the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge was closed by a demonstration. I couldn’t make out what the signs said, so I turned on the local all-news radio...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• China Backtracking?

  By Paul Homewood   Signs that China is already backtracking on its climate pledges:   China plans to build more coal-fired power plants and has hinted that it will rethink its timetable to slash emissions, in a significant blow to the UK’s...

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• Coldplay’s Virtue Signalling World Tour

  By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness     This must be in the running for the Virtue Signalling of the Year Award!     Coldplay’s next tour will partly be powered by a dancefloor that generates electricity when fans jump up and down, and pedal...

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• Switching Renewable Subsidies To Gas Will Make Little Difference

  By Paul Homewood   It is not only the UK that is thinking of switching green levies from electricity to gas. But this analysis inadvertently highlights why the whole idea is so ludicrous:     In the UK, consumer prices for electricity are five...

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NoTricksZone

• When 2 Parents Tried To Make Their Young Daughter Practice What Greta Preaches…All Hell Broke Loose!

  You think FFF kids are mad at their parents for trashing the planet? That’s nothing compared to their anger when you ask them to walk the talk. Angry Greta. Image cropped here. At FaceBook, two German parents of a young schoolgirl decided that...

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• 4 More New Reconstructions Affirm The Medieval Warm Period Was ‘Warmer Than Today’

  From Russia to the Indian Ocean to Antarctica, surface temperatures were much warmer than  they are today during Medieval times. 1. The Eastern Russia region was 1.5°C warmer than now during the Medieval Warm Period. The modern warm-up...

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• Injunction Ruling Against YouTube/Google Censorship! Removal Of Lockdown-Critical Videos “Illegal”

  YouTube suffered a major legal blow earlier this week on censorship. It’s a huge victory for free speech and the democratic right to open, unobstructed discussion on online platforms.  “Violate our guidelines” is no adequate basis…...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

• Answer Sheet: Florida Says It’s Ending Year-End, High-Stakes Standardized Testing. Here’s What It’s Really Doing.

  Answer Sheet: Florida Says It’s Ending Year-End, High-Stakes Standardized Testing. Here’s What It’s Really Doing. Strange things happen routinely in Florida — but nobody saw this one coming: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced...

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  The Conversation: Why Charter Schools Are Not as ‘Public’ as They Claim To Be

  The Conversation: Why Charter Schools Are Not as ‘Public’ as They Claim To Be Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all students.” But the truth is more nuanced. As an education policy researcher –...

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  Code Acts in Education: Nudging Assets

  Code Acts in Education: Nudging Assets The acquisition of learning management system Blackboard has opened up opportunities for the new company to generate value from integrating data and nudging student behaviour. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash...

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Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson

  Conceived in Liberty: Season 2, Episode 1 – Victor Davis Hanson from Ben Hannemann on Vimeo.

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• American Armageddon

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this...

  2 months ago

• The Great Leftist Bully Boy Hope

  By any empirical measure, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proven utterly disingenuous, and far more so than average politicians. Unlike other political mediocrities, his inanities have led to roughly 13,000 unnecessary deaths or more...

  2 months ago

The Moderate Voice

• Joe Manchin slams Bernie Sanders in battle over Biden spending plan

  Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia slammed fellow lawmaker Bernie Sanders late Friday over his attempts to garner support for President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar...

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• JON GRUDEN IS JUST THE TIP OF THE NFL’S RACISM PROBLEM

  by Elwood Watson He said the quiet part out loud is a phrase commonly used in the Black community when referring to whites and others who reveal their innermost thoughts. Former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned earlier this week...

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• FOR REPUBLICANS, IT REMAINS THE DONALD TRUMP SHOW

  by Carl Golden Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the free-spirited tart tongued daughter of Teddy, once described her president father as someone who “wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the infant at every...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• Will this revolution be televised?

  More than a century after the artists of the Vienna Secession declared “to every age its art; to art its freedom”, the Austrian capital has found a new site for artistic expression free from censorship: the adults-only platform OnlyFans...

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• What I’ve been reading

  1. Carole Angier, Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald.  Might Sebald be the only semi-recent writer who can hold a candle to Ferrante, Knausgaard, and Houllebecq?  This book is sprawling, and suffers somewhat from lack of access to...

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• Tyrone, your local Straussian, comments on “Trap House”

  I took it to refer to a place where drugs are sold, but you might be trapped either by the police or by the attendant lifestyle and its appeals.  The Yale Federalist Society was proclaming itself comparable to such a trap house, and thus at the...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• Denis Smith: If We Lose Public Schools, We Lose Our Democracy

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Denis Smith worked for many years in the Ohio State Department of Education, finishing his career in the Office of Charter Schools. He writes in the Ohio Capital Journal about the existential threat…...

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• The End of the Forever War, leaving Afghanistan in 2021

  I’m a former U.S. Marine and was sent to Vietnam in late 1965. I returned home to the states in December 1966. At the end of the Vietnam War, according to History.com, about 7,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various … Continue...

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MintPress News

• How Feminists Can Support Afghan Women Living Under the Taliban

  When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The US government must release those funds. The post...

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• Lee Camp: Julian Assange’s Father, John Shipton, on the U.S. Government’s ‘Scandalous’ Plan to ‘Murder’ His Son

  "These people want to destroy Julian and destroy Wikileaks," warns Assange's father ahead of the whistleblower's final extradition hearing next month. The post Lee Camp: Julian Assange’s Father, John Shipton, on the U.S. Government’s...

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• US Writes Belarus into Its Familiar Regime-Change Script

  The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, join NATO, or open the country up for...

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Made from Truth and Lies

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  instagram cross-post

  Sophia insisted I shave off my whole beard yesterday. So, of course, I did it in stages. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there.

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  Interesting Links for 16-10-2021

  Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform(tags:Steam cryptography money games )Facebook claims to take down 94% of hate speech. It's actually 3%(tags:Facebook hate ai abuse )How cricket works(tags:cricket games rules comic...

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  instagram cross-post

  Ah well, if you can't be in nursery then you might as well go for a walk somewhere where you won't be close to people. Original is here on instagram. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are comments there...

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www.gurukalehuru.com

• Retirement Schedule

  I woke up at 11 a.m. this morning. That’s not that unusual for most people, and there are some who would even consider it early. Our internal clocks are not all set at the same time, and don’t even operate … Continue reading →...

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• A Sci-Fi Lesson

  Sort of a science fiction day. Watched Valerian. I’d seen it before, and remembered I liked it, but, like a goldfish in a bowl, I guess, it was interesting straight through. One thing I really liked about it, was the … Continue reading →...

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• It’s a Puzzle

  Once again, my view of reality is shattered, and one more pillar holding up the ceiling of how I thought the world worked has crumbled.Over the past couple of days we put together a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Well, mostly … Continue reading...

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16 October - iG Tab - 8

 

Have You Heard

• A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose

  Tweet#122 A Mind at Work: Remembering Mike Rose In this special episode, Have You Heard remembers the extraordinary Mike Rose. Special guests Erika Kitzmiller, Janelle Scott, Chris Buttimer, Michael Moses and Rema Reynolds help us recall...

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Chicago Boyz

• Random Pic

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• World Ocean Shipping at a Glance

  …well, it will probably take more than one glance, because there is a lot of traffic on the map.  This is a near-real-time display of the positions of almost all large vessels and many not so large ships and boats. Easy to zoom in on an areas or...

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• Scorched Earth

  Is an epidemic like a war? Yes You have an identifiable enemy that is killing you. You have reasonably clear and achievable objectives. To be accurate, the USA has not fought with clear and achievable objectives for several wars now, but that’s...

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Centinel2012

• Victoria, Australia, Police Speak Out

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Police State Re-Posted Oct 16, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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• Violence up 42% over 2019

  Armstrong Economics Blog/Crime Re-Posted Oct 15, 2021 by Martin Armstrong A Conservative British lawmaker, a member of  Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Party, was stabbed several times while meeting his constituents at a church...

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• Did Klaus Schwab and World Economic Forum Admit The COVID Vaccine Injects Traceable Markers? Their Promoted “COVIDPass” Blood Test Requires Them

  Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 16, 2021 | Sundance | 158 Comments An article and video promoted by the World Economic Forum, intended to propose and outline a globally accepted “COVIDPass”...

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The BRAD BLOG

• Why Dems Should Partisan Gerrymander the Hell Out of 'Blue' States (and Why They Shouldn't): 'BradCast' 10/15/2021

  On today's BradCast, I share an idea that I've thought long and hard about, struggled with and, frankly, never thought I'd have, much less recommend, as this idea is essentially counter to everything I have long fought for as a democracy advocate...

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• Why the Last Remaining 2020 Election Challenge in Georgia Should Not Have Been Dismissed: 'BradCast' 10/14/2021

  From legal and election wonkery to supply chain wonkery, there is no wonkery that is too wonky for today's BradCast! But I suspect (or, at least, hope) you'll find it a pretty good show nonetheless. And you'll even find out why I actually agree...

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• 'Green News Report' - October 14, 2021

  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Supply chain disruptions spike global energy prices; Putin says Russia would never artificially limit natural gas deliveries to Europe; California bans gas-powered lawn and leaf blowers; PLUS: Biden Administration...

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bluebird of bitterness

• Cat rests up in preparation for long night running up and down stairs

  From The Babylon Bee. MENIFEE, CA—Local unemployed cat Autumn got another good day’s rest Thursday in preparation for a long evening running up and down the stairs at random times. “Sporadically running upstairs, and then downstairs...

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• Caturday funnies

  The day Rover carelessly wandered into the wrong neighborhood.

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• Fractured fairy tales

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BlackListed News

• Los Angeles County Sheriff Won’t Enforce “Poorly Thought Through, Poorly Executed” Vaccine Mandate

  Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is declining to enforce the county’s wide-ranging vaccine mandate, accusing the county’s Democrat leaders of a political stunt in trying to force every Los Angele County employee to receive...

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• 'White Is Not Right': Walmart Training Manual For White Employees Leaked by Whistleblower

  "Walmart has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a 'white supremacy system' and teaches white hourly-wage workers that they are guilty of 'white supremacy thinking' and 'internalized racial...

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• Report: New WHO COVID Origin Investigation Team Includes ANOTHER Peter Daszak Minion

  The World Health Organisation recently put together a new team of researchers to ‘investigate’ the origins of COVID-19, pertaining specifically to the lab leak theory, and declared that this time conflicts of interest would be avoided...

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Research Digest

• Episode 28: Why Songs Get Stuck In Our Heads

  In Episode 28 of our PsychCrunch podcast, we explore the psychology of earworms.

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• Scared Of Spiders? There’s An App For That

  By Emma L. Barratt. Exposure therapy through an augmented reality app was effective at reducing fear.

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• A Jekyll And Hyde Emotion? Research On Anger, Digested

  By Emma Young. If we can rid ourselves of the dark, destructive side of anger, what is left can act as a force for good.

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  The Canadian Team on the Hunt for Radioactive Artifacts

  Since 1997, the Diefenbunker Museum of Cold War history has occupied a 100,000-square-foot bunker just outside the Canadian capital of Ottawa. Commissioned in 1959 to become the heart of government in case of a nuclear attack, the bunker...

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  9/11 Spirit of America Memorial in Cashmere, Washington

  Located adjacent to Riverside park, this incredibly detailed memorial has several unique monuments dedicated to each group that perished on 9/11. The centerpiece of this memorial is the four, life-sized bronze statues holding hands. They...

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  How a Librarian and a Food Historian Rediscovered the Recipes of Moorish Spain

  “Take large fine-tasting carrots, lightly scrape their skins, cut them in half lengthwise, and then split each half into two pieces.” For centuries, that’s as far as any cook could get when preparing “A dish [of carrots in sauce]”...

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Accidental Deliberations

• Musical interlude

  The War On Drugs feat. Lucius - I Don't Live Here Anymore

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• Friday Morning Links

  Assorted content to end your week.- Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public - rather than engaging in the wishful thinking, sugar-coating and general...

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• Thursday Morning Links

  This and that for your Thursday reading.- Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists' recognition that the UK's deadly second COVID wave...

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16 October - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

WIRED

• Hackers Keep Targeting the US Water Supply

  Plus: The biggest Twitch hack, an iOS zero day, and more of the week's top security news.

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• Ground-Level Ozone Is a Creeping Threat to Biodiversity

  Scientists are learning how this pollutant damages plants and trees, setting off a cascade of effects that harms everything from soil microbes to wildlife.

  6 hours ago

• Turn Your Smart Home Into a Haunted House With Spooky Tech

  Add some high-tech horror to your Halloween decorations with scary sounds, frightening lights, and more.

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NYT > Home Page

• Money Floods the Race for Control of Congress, More Than a Year Early

  The main House war chests for both Democrats and Republicans have a combined $128 million in the bank — more than double the sum at this point in 2020.

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• Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills Dozens as Shiites Are Targeted Again

  It was the second week in a row that attackers had struck a Shiite place of worship during Friday Prayer.

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• Mayor Fights Chicago’s Largest Police Union Over Vaccinations

  The agency’s advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend the boosters for all adults at least two months after the first dose. An official said the agency might consider allowing Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients to get boosters...

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India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti

• PM Modi congratulates newly elected Norwegian counterpart on assuming office

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• Six overseas players among top 20 in cumulative ranking of global crossword contest IXL

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• 'Back-door' appointee, Geelani’s grandson sacked from govt job on grounds of security

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BBC News - UK

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British-Iranian aid worker loses court appeal in Iran

  Her family has told the BBC that they fear she could be returned to jail at any time.

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• Soldier dies during Army training exercise

  The 23-year-old was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle on the UK's largest training area.

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• Sir David Amess killing: MPs will not be cowed, says Patel

  The home secretary calls Sir David Amess "a man of the people", as police say the stabbing was terrorism.

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