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US Farmers, Tech Tycoons Square Off Over Plans For Utopian City | Glenn Chapman

Swaths of rural land between San Francisco and Sacramento, in the western U.S. state of California, were secretly purchased by tech tycoons keen on building a new city. Glenn Chapman -- TechXplore Sept. 22, 2023 A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics and their ...

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Climate Conflagration: Maui to Montana | Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

Amy Goodman Denis MoynihanAmy Goodman & Denis Moynihan -- Democracy Now! Aug. 17, 2023 Climate change-fueled drought and high winds created the perfect conditions for raging wildfires across the ...

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How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing

Francis Goodwin asks Bing: How to stop and reverse global warming? July 28, 2023 (Bing) -- Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and its inhabitants. It is caused by the accumulation of ...

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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown

Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s ...

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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney

Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...

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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown

Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other ...

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Leftists Once Hated Monsanto But Now They Love Moderna — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 16, 2021 Almost ten years ago, there was a ubiquitous two-word chant you’d hear loudly echoing through any and every Occupy Wall Street event: “Fuck ...

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Just Add Water — Mickey Z.

Photo: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 25, 2021 Back in the pre-mask era, I'd regularly venture into Manhattan to train fitness clients. On those early morning trips, it was not ...

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Sustainability: 3 Global Trends in 2020 — Mickey Z.

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. — Now With Purpose December 11, 2020 When we look back on 2020, one collective remembrance will be about how everything came to a halt. Well… not everything. Some ...

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All the Leaves are Brown | Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 16, 2020 “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” (Joni Mitchell) Each fall, even the most nature-oblivious humans can’t help but notice — ...

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‘Dying to Fish’: How Israeli Piracy Destroyed Gaza’s Once Thriving Fishing Industry | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2020 On Aug. 16, the Israeli navy declared the Gaza sea a closed military zone. A few days later, a group of Gaza fishermen decided to take ...

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Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation. www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/29/where-liquid-staking-meets-tokenization/

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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI | Nieman Journalism Lab Some of the funding will go to form a "studio" within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP's grantees. www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/openai-will-give-local-news-millions-to-experiment-with-ai/

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Mouthwash for dogs: Water additive with pomegranate helps to keep canine teeth healthy

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How Microsoft could supplant Apple as the world’s most valuable firm It hopes to seize on AI to transform the future of work | Briefing www.economist.com/briefing/2023/09/27/how-microsoft-could-supplant-apple-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-firm?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content

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Manchester Mill newsletter eyes expansion after £1.75m valuation | Regional & local newspapers | The Guardian Startup considers cities including Leeds and Glasgow for new versions of its paywalled local media model www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/30/manchester-mill-prepares-for-uk-expansion-after-valuation?_hsmi=76769268&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2SxuaW2Axl1BHKIamPkywITYo6r-0bBCoIY6QB5Xo9Tr5dgheWB1i28OXqqLr0UPOzzIYSWuuDlJRz-dH9WKkare06C1LWxgyEPOC3i4SuHaXJ2E

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