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The Deadly Toll of the Red Tide

Oops! Has everything to do with climate change but some will deny it until Florida floods and fries. In southwestern Florida, the harmful algal bloom has lasted about 10 months and continues to kill large amounts of marine life.

Louis CK’s comeback shows nine months is long enough, apparently

Choose another career and media needs to ignore you.

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We should be asking ourselves how CK’s abuse of power robbed his victims of opportunities – and that he’s is not the victim

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Fear in Chemnitz: ‘I’m used to neo-Nazis, but not my neighbour mixing with them in broad daylight’

Cut off at knee! or we will have to refight WW@

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Tensions are rising in the east German city after violent demonstrations by the far right

Packing away her metal trays of breads and biscuits in Chemnitz’s Peukert bakery, famous for its century-old recipes, the shop assistant says she is glad it is closing time. Outside, police and protesters are gathering ahead of the latest far-right rally. “We’ve been here before,” she says, pulling down the window blinds and shrugging, saying that the insurers will pay for any damage. “Thirty years ago we also had to tell the state what’s what.”

“It’s just like way back then,” the woman, who declined to give her name, says of the 1989 protests that brought down the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). “It feels like no one really listens to us ordinary folk, which is why people are on the streets again.”

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Rupee has now breached 71 for the first time

Modi great neo-fascist talker but hurting economy – his “friend” Trump of no help. On Friday Rupee breached the 71-mark for the first time against the dollar, hitting a fresh low. The weakening of the rupee over the last few days has been attributed to month-end dollar demand from importers, the pressure being on currencies by Turkish lira and Chinese offshore yuan and rally in crude oil.