7 November - iG Tab - 9

 

Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Madonna – Into The Groove

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• Sonny and Cher: The beat goes on

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• UK to be ‘clean energy superpower’?  

  Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: CO2 is not pollution Without sufficient dispatchable electricity generation the UK could become a low-energy power on windless nights. Alarmist talk of ‘worst droughts in 500/1000 years’...

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TARPLEY.net

• 1933 in Germany or 1934 in US? The choice Is in Your Hands!

  36 million early voters nationwide by late Friday, a midterm record, while Trump is reportedly preparing to announce a new bid for power on November 14; That makes this is a referendum — on Trump! MAGA is now the party of Quislings appeasing...

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• On hundredth anniversary of Mussolini’s march on Rome, attacker targets Speaker Pelosi

  Would-be killer severely wounds husband Paul Pelosi, showing fascist threat is real today; Pelosi demonized in countless GOP cable ads; Corrupt corporate media reach new low with their fatuous narrative of red wave and Democratic defeat...

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• Biden pledges to enact Roe into law on first day of new Congress!

  McCarthy shares his nightmare agenda with Punch Bowl News — Woe to the vanquished: Speaker wannabe plans early betrayal of Ukraine, citing exorbitant costs to justify treachery; National ban on abortion looms, with no exceptions likely...

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Sustainable Pulse

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  Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby

  The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and no person...

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  Secret “Paraquat Papers” Reveal Corporate Tactics to Protect Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

  For decades, Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has manufactured and marketed a widely used weed killing chemical called paraquat, and for much of that time the company has been dealing with external concerns that long-term exposure to the chemical...

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  Roundup Affects Vital Fine Color Vision of Bumblebees – New Finnish Study

  Finnish researchers have discovered how Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate, affects the learning and memory of bumblebees. A small dose affected their ability to learn and memorize connections between colors and taste. This weakened...

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sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 310 – 2023

  South / North

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• Fanaticism Of The Apocalypse

  In Europe, they’re burning garbage to stay warm. “It’s so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new,”  said the 35-year-old mother of three from Jablonna, Poland, near Warsaw. “Rarely…...

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 309 – 2022

  South / North

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Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The Red Emperor

  Brahma Chellaney, OPEN magazine Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure has already been marked by high ambition and aggression, including territorial and maritime expansionism. Xi’s vision, the “Chinese dream,” is to make China...

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• The US-India Partnership is Too Important to Lose

  Tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan have strained the strategic partnership between the US and India. But President Joe Biden cannot afford to alienate America’s most important partner...

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• China’s expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

  India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asia China’s relentless expansionism in the frigid high Himalayas through furtive territorial encroachments has fostered a...

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Ramani's blog

• Sanyasis Should Not Perform Yagnya?

  While the meaning is that those who show off as one who is a Yogi ,is not really a Yogi but a pretender, the translation shown in the image conveys the exact and mischievous misinterpretation of the Bhagavad Gita...

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• Reverse OF Aryan Invasion Why English Dictionaries Do Not Credit Sanskrit Etymology

  Reverse of Aryan invasion. From India , Details. While the Oxford people wrote back that they wouldn’t like to drift away from teir 150 year-old etymological moorings, Wedster’s argued that since Englishmen were not even aware of the...

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• Abhirami Andhadhi Classes Online

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Diane Ravitch's blog

• Miami Herald Endorses Crist for Governor

  Ron DeSantis is a bully and a braggart. Under his autocratic rule, the people of Florida are “free” to do what he tells them to do. The Miami Herald endorsed his opponent Charlie Crist. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is a place of meanness...

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• Texas: Public Schools Are on the Ballot

  Texas Republicans have been longing to pass a voucher bill, but they have been stymied by grassroots opposition and by our friends, Pastors for Texas Children, who believe in separation of church and state. This year, Governor Greg Abbot and...

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• Please Vote Tomorrow! Every Vote Counts!

  Many of the contested seats for the House and the Senate are very close. I stopped watching the polls a week or so ago, and I no longer believe in them. They are often wrong, and they tend to depress the vote if your candidate is either far ahead or...

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Matt Ridley: Green zealots are threatening real conservation

  By Paul Homewood     Obsession with climate change is now actively harming the environment Environmentalists are increasingly finding themselves at odds with conservationists. Last week the head of the National Grid said the planning...

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• Dominic Lawson: You can have green or growth — but not both

  By Paul Homewood Dominic Lawson nails it:     Just think of all the important world leaders that Rishi Sunak could persuade to join the UK in the great “net zero carbon” campaign when the British PM makes the trip this week that he originally...

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• Would We Be Better Off Now, If We Had More Renewables?

  By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk   For a change, a slightly more objective analysis of our energy policy from the BBC:     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63477214 It covers some of the main factors, such as:   The dash for gas in...

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NoTricksZone

• New Paradigm-Shifting Study Finds Annual CO2 Flux Is Driven By Temperature-Dependent Sea Ice Flux

  Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) change rates lag behind changes in sea ice extent by 7 months and 5 months, respectively. This robust correlation is consistent with the conclusion that CO2 (and CH4) changes are responsive to...

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• Germany Sees Record Warm October, Helps Ease Heating Costs And Gas Shortage

  How was October in Germany in 2022? An extremely warm October, 2022, with record potential is how the German Weather Service describes the month from a weather and climate perspective. October 2022 was extremely warm in Germany. It is still...

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• Tokyo Mean October Mean Temperature Has Been Falling For Decades

  Charts produced by Kirye This October, according to the (untampered) data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the mean temperature in Tokyo came in at 17.2°C, making it it one of the coolest over the past decades: Data source: JMA. ...

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NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools

  10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools After taking a couple weeks to take my youngest son on a Great Western Road Trip, I have returned to be gob smacked yet one more time about what a problem Ohio’s voucher...

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• Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold?

  Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold? They say it started with Kansas irregulars attacking Missouri. Missouri replied in kind. It was an unneighborly kind of war. Little mercy was asked and little...

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• Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights

  Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights By Amanda Nelson  LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 8, 2022) — A newly published analysis of how dollars are distributed to schools in the U.S. posits that funding...

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The Moderate Voice

• ‘Impeachmentpalooza’: Rick Wilson previews House Republicans’ agenda with control of Congress

  Published by Raw Story By Matthew Chapman On Monday, former Republican strategist and Never Trump conservative Rick Wilson took to Twitter to outline what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his allies will do with a House majority...

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• Midterms: Five examples of online misinformation ahead of the polls

  Published by Euronews (English) Fears have been raised once again that an election in the United States could be marred by online misinformation. False claims about voting and elections have spread widely on social media ahead of the midterms...

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• Mastodon: What is the social network hailed as a Twitter alternative?

  Published by Reuters By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – With Twitter in disarray since the world’s richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen...

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Marginal REVOLUTION

• China fact of the day (with the usual grain of salt)

  Nucleic Acid Testing 'Now Accounts for 1.3% of China’s GDP' https://t.co/sFw8zdNdk1 — That's Shanghai (@ThatsShanghai) November 7, 2022 The post China fact of the day (with the usual grain of salt) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION...

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• Lu Wei Peter Zhang

  If you want to open a new Peter Chang restaurant in Fairfax, but not quite tell people it is Peter Chang…call it Peter Zhang!  (Isn’t that a bit like hiding the kid from Anakin Skywalker and calling him Luke Skywalker?) This is the most casual...

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• Monday assorted links

  1. Are people in rice-farming areas less happy on average? (speculative) 2. Individualism and the decline of homicide (but does this hold in the broader cross-section?) 3. Earlier Twitter markets in everything. 4. The economics of writing...

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Lloyd Lofthouse

• The Scourge of the Internet: Political Panhandlers

  This is a rant about political panhandlers sending out emails asking for donations. When I was still a child, I remember my dad’s reason for not voting. He said, “All politicians are liars and crooks and can’t be trusted.” But as soon...

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• Is this an Indie Troll or a Russian, Iranian or North Korean Hacker trying to trick me with a Trojan Horse?

  A few weeks ago, two e-mail alerts landed in my Gmail inbox telling me new comments had been submitted to two of my four blogs. This isn’t anything new. My four blogs have had more than one million views over the years, and I get e-mail alerts like...

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• The trail that may lead to Traitor Trump’s Alleged Guilt

  I think there is interesting circumstantial evidence that may offer proof that Traitor Trump’s theft of classified documents has led to the mysterious deaths of 7 (or more) Russian oligarchs that may have been assets working for the CIA...

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MintPress News

• Chasing a Mirage: How Israel’s Arab Parties Validate Apartheid

  By remaining loyal participants in Israel’s democracy charade, Palestinian citizens of Israel continue to validate the Israeli establishment, thus harming, not only Palestinian communities in Israel but, in fact, Palestinians everywhere. ...

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• The Truth About Cargill, The World’s Most Evil Company

  Let’s learn a little more about Cargill. Known to friends as the evilest company in the world – and to enemies as even worse than that – Cargill Inc. is the biggest privately owned company in the U.S., and they own a large chunk of every portion...

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• The BBC’s Connections to the Conservative Party, and Unit 8200 Infiltrating Social Media, with Alan MacLeod

  Lowkey talks to Alan MacLeod about the BBC’s extremely close links to the UK ruling Conservative Party and MacLeod’s latest findings on Israeli military surveillance organization Unit 8200. The post The BBC’s Connections to the Conservative...

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7 November - iG Tab - 8 - MSM

Chicago Boyz

• What is the Purpose of Holding & Expressing Political Beliefs?

  The late Clay Christensen, IMO one of the relatively few business academics whose books/articles contain ideas that are genuinely thought-provoking and useful, discussed the ‘job’ for which a product is ‘hired.’  An example...

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• Casting the Oracle Stones

  So the voters go to the polls tomorrow – well, those who haven’t done early voting or mailed in their ballot – and possibly by Wednesday, we will know the results from those places which have it together in tallying up the ballots. (It might...

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• Midterms and Mayhem

  Abstract: A “red wave” midterm election seems about to occur. Notwithstanding the apparent (relatively) recent precedent of the 1994 midterms, the eight weeks from Tuesday 8 November 2022 to Tuesday 3 January 2023 may become the most...

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Centinel2012

• Cooperate or perish – U.N. chief tells COP27

  Reuters Published originally on Rumble on November 7, 2022 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told leaders gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday (November 7) they face a stark choice: work together...

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• Bolsonaro Hands Over Power to Lula

  Armstrong Economics Blog/South America Re-Posted Nov 7, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Jair Bolsonaro did not immediately concede to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after the close election of 49.1%-50.9%. This is the closest presidential race in Brazil...

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• Oprah’s Old Posse Weighing in on PA Senate Race

  Armstrong Economics Blog/USA Current Events Re-Posted Nov 7, 2022 by Martin Armstrong The corrupt celebrity Oprah Winfrey (a separate blog post for another day) and her old posse are weighing in on the Pennsylvania Senate race. John Fetterman...

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The BRAD BLOG

• Sunday 'Blood Moon Election' Toons

  Support a disappearing craft with a subscription to a political cartoonist. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

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• A Progressive's Closing Argument for Voting Democratic in 2022: 'BradCast' 11/4/2022

  After a few quick words about the "Goldilocks" final jobs report to be released by the federal government before Tuesday's critical midterms on today's BradCast, we get right to what might be regarded as a closing argument for progressives...

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• Forewarned: GOP Manufacturing Midterm Chaos to Create APPEARANCE of Corrupt Elections: 'BradCast' 11/3/2022

  Today on The BradCast, we continue our focus on next Tuesday's critical midterm elections by picking things up, somewhat, from our conversation on yesterday's program. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] We were joined yesterday by...

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bluebird of bitterness

• Reptile dysfunction

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• Monday chuckles

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• Sunday funnies — end-of-daylight-saving-time edition

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BlackListed News

• Twitter advertiser boycott organized by dark money Soros, Clinton, and foreign networks

  A dark money outfit funded by progressive billionaires.

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• National Guard to activate cybersecurity teams in 14 states ahead of midterm elections

  The National Guard will be activating cybersecurity teams in 14 states ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday to counter any potential interferences, Politico and StateScoop reported on Friday.

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• State Dept. gives law enforcement, intelligence agencies unrestricted access to Americans' personal data

  The State Department is giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies unrestricted access to the personal data of more than 145 million Americans, through information from passport applications that is shared without legal process...

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Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar in Broxburn, Scotland

  Edinburgh is known as the Town of Eden for its abundant greenery, and Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, located just outside the Scottish city, is no exception. Though it contains a rather unique feature: a celestial map of the solar system...

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  Shake Up Your Cocktails with Miso and MSG

  THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEMBER 5, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. A couple of weeks ago, I was at Wiggle Room, a cocktail bar in New York’s East Village, when the contents of my...

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  Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles, California

  Established in 1952, Travel Town is a free open-air museum and park, tucked obscurely on the far east side of Los Angeles' Griffith Park. It primarily concerns itself with American rail transportation from the 1880s to the 1930s. On the surface...

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Accidental Deliberations

• Monday Afternoon Links

  Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Erin Prater reports on research showing how long COVID may be traced to excessive pruning of connections in the brain. Faye Flam highlights why anybody who's been infected will need to be on the outlook...

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• Sunday Afternoon Links

  This and that for your Sunday reading.- Keenan Sorokan reports on the unprecedented number of students out sick from school in the Saskatoon area, while Karen Bartko reports on a spike in respiratory illnesses among Edmonton students. And...

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• Musical interlude

  Sneaker Pimps - Fighter

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7 November - iG Tab - 7 - MSM

 

WIRED

• How to 'Quiet Quit' Elon Musk's Twitter

  The chaos engulfing the platform provides an opportunity to reclaim control of your online life, without logging off for good.

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• The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense

  Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you.

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• IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

  A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards.

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NYT > Home Page

• LA Voters Are in a Foul Mood. Will a New Mayor Change Anything?

  Residents are frustrated over homelessness, crime and rising costs. Two candidates for mayor, Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, say they can turn the tide.

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• Paxlovid May Reduce Risk of Long Covid in Eligible Patients, Study Finds

  The research looked at patients who qualified for the antiviral through age or health conditions. Those who took it shortly after infection were 26 percent less likely to have symptoms 90 days later.

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• China’s Business Elite See the Country That Let Them Thrive Slipping Away

  The business class, which shunned politics, is now questioning if there is still a place for it in a system dominated by one ruler, Xi Jinping.

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

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  UK court order puts focus back on UPA defence deals

  A UK court’s order allowing the Enforcement Directorate’ plea for the extradition of fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari has come as a boost to the investigating agencies while putting the spotlight again on the alleged payoffs in defence...

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  In Delhi HC, govt opposes dilution of surrogacy & ART law clauses

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  Jharkhand governor hasn’t sought fresh opinion, EC tells Soren

  The Election Commission on Monday informed Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren that no fresh communication had been received by the poll panel from state governor Ramesh Bais since it rendered its opinion on the disqualification plea against Soren...

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BBC News - UK

• Woman's oxygen tube possibly crushed by trolley wheel, inquest told

  Jasmine Hill, 19, went into cardiac arrest after being moved from an operating table to a trolley.

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• Just Stop Oil: Dozens of activists arrested over M25 protest

  Multiple junctions of the M25 were closed and police made 35 arrests during the latest protest.

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• Channel crossings deal with France in final stages, says No 10

  Rishi Sunak says there's no "simple solution" to illegal migration, after meeting President Macron.

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