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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Two dead in California attack, marking the 85th school shooting in the US this year

Enough!

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A student opens fire at a Southern California high school, killing two students and wounding three others before turning the gun on himself, authorities say.

The Tories rely on Russian money – that’s why they ignore Russian meddling | Chris Bryant

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If the intelligence report on this matter is not made public, voters can only conclude the party has something to hide

• Chris Bryant is a former chair of the parliamentary group on Russia

Anyone who really wants to understand the government’s determination to suppress parliament’s intelligence and security committee report on Russia needs to go back to 2009. I was the Europe minister and my opposite number, Mark Francois, made it abundantly clear that a future Tory government intended to “normalise” relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. So when David Cameron arrived in Downing Street he wiped the slate clean. Russia was one of the world’s major fast-growing economies. We needed to do more trade with Putin and let bygones be bygones.

That required quite a lot of wilful amnesia by Conservative ministers. Alexander Litvinenko had been poisoned with polonium in the UK in 2006. All the evidence pointed to the Kremlin, but as then home secretary Theresa May stated quite openly, the reason she was blocking an inquiry into his murder was that it would harm diplomatic relations. Likewise, Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian jail in 2009 after he discovered massive corruption by Kremlin officials while working for a British firm. But time and again when I asked Cameron and May whether they would bar anyone associated with his murder from entering the UK, they obfuscated and prevaricated.

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Majority of anti-vaxx ads on Facebook are funded by just two organizations

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Study finds Robert F Kennedy Jr’s World Mercury Project and Larry Cook’s Stop Mandatory Vaccinations bought 54% of ads

The majority of Facebook ads spreading misinformation about vaccines are funded by two organizations run by well-known anti-vaccination activists, a new study in the journal Vaccine has found.

The World Mercury Project chaired by Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Stop Mandatory Vaccinations, a project of campaigner Larry Cook, bought 54% of the anti-vaccine ads shown on the platform during the study period.

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Why is the world losing the fight against history’s most lethal disease?

Easy to catch but hard to diagnose, TB is almost as deadly today as it was 150 years ago. Better, cheaper drugs are a priority

Tuberculosis has killed more people than any other disease in history. Last year, 1.5 million people died from TB and 10 million more acquired it. A shocking one-quarter of the world’s population is infected. That’s not much better than 1993, when one-third of the world was infected and the World Health Organization declared TB a global emergency. We are losing the battle.

Earlier this month, experts gathered in Hyderabad for the 50th Union World Conference on fighting the disease. When the first such gathering was held in 1867, TB was the leading cause of death in industrialised nations. Today, it still ranks in the top 10 worldwide. Why, despite all the progress in medicine and public health over the past 150 years, is TB still the most common and lethal of all infectious diseases?

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Outcry after Facebook sponsors gala featuring Brett Kavanaugh

Pimping for cover and profit

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Company is listed as a ‘gold circle’ sponsor for rightwing group Federalist Society dinner where justice will be keynote speaker

Facebook is facing criticism for sponsoring the annual gala dinner of the Federalist Society, the powerful rightwing legal group behind the nomination of conservative supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Related: Nancy Pelosi accuses Trump of bribery after first public impeachment hearing – live

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Lawsuit Spurs Trump Administration to Suspend 130 Oil, Gas Leases in Utah

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Eagle Canyon in Utah’s San Rafael Swell. Photo by Ray Bloxham, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Lawsuit Spurs Trump Administration to Suspend 130 Oil, Gas Leases in Utah

Feds Ignored Climate Change, Opened Scenic, Cultural Lands to Fossil Fuel Extraction
November 12, 2019
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Contact:
Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org
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