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Lippi: Mijatovic’s goal in 1998 Champions League final was definitely offside Maradona

Lippi: Mijatovic’s goal in 1998 Champions League final was definitely offside

Real Madrid Former Juventus coach has no doubtsJuventus suffered a defeat in the Champions League final in 1998 with Real Madrid emerging victorious, yet Marcello Lippi, coach of the Italian side at the time, maintains that Predrag Mijatovic's winning goal was offside. The goal itself remains a controversial subject for the…
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May 20, 2020
Cycling: Pantano handed four-year ban following positive anti-doping test Doping in Cycling

Cycling: Pantano handed four-year ban following positive anti-doping test

PARIS (Reuters) - Former Tour de France stage winner Jarlinson Pantano has been handed a four-year suspension after failing an anti-doping test last year, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Wednesday. Colombian Pantano retired last June, two months after he was provisionally suspended following a positive test for the…
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May 20, 2020
Insane Nobel Peace Prize Betting Odds Has Liverpool Striker Roberto Firmino In 13th Place, Ahead Of Putin And Bill Gates Julian Assange

Insane Nobel Peace Prize Betting Odds Has Liverpool Striker Roberto Firmino In 13th Place, Ahead Of Putin And Bill Gates

Getty ImageOkay. Okayyy. Alright, now I’m certain of it: we’re living in a simulation. When I first came across this news, I literally could not believe it. “What? A soccer player? Nobel Prize? Betting odds?” It felt like one of those super niche memes created specifically for the intention of…
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May 20, 2020
UNHCR: Let Them In Refugees

UNHCR: Let Them In

DescriptionThey risked everything. Gave all they had. Endured smugglers, rough seas, hunger, sickness and death. Some even made it. Only to be kept out. Blocked. Kicked. Battered. Humiliated. Walls have been put up. Trains stalled. Gates closed. Xenophobia turned to full blast. The Syrian refugee crisis isn’t a third world…
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May 20, 2020
Condé Nast Announces Commitment to Become Carbon Neutral By 2030 Global Warming

Condé Nast Announces Commitment to Become Carbon Neutral By 2030

Photo: Getty ImagesCondé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker and more, announced on Wednesday its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030."The credibility of our environmental journalism depends on our willingness as a company to improve our own operations and supply chains in ways that dramatically reduce our…
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May 20, 2020
Coronavirus: What we do now could change Earth’s climate trajectory Earth‘s Climate

Coronavirus: What we do now could change Earth’s climate trajectory

by Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Felix Creutzig, Glen Peters, Matthew William Jones, Pierre Friedlingstein, Rob Jackson and Yu, The Conversation Victoria’s Yallourn coal station. COVID-19 offers a chance to restructure energy systems. Credit: Wikimedia The numbers of people cycling and walking in public spaces during COVID-19 has skyrocketed. Cities…
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May 20, 2020
It’s Possible to Run for Office as an Unapologetic Socialist and Win Meritocracy

It’s Possible to Run for Office as an Unapologetic Socialist and Win

Despite being an eternal disappointment to the majority of people, the capitalist-allied political establishment is able to remain in power in part by maintaining the illusion that politics is for experts, people with Rolodexes full of professional contacts, people who went to elite schools. Since the myth of meritocracy maintains…
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May 20, 2020
The Great Moving Left Show Tories and Labour

The Great Moving Left Show

Is this the start of a big left turn? The British death rate has been appalling. The politics of easing the lockdown – higher taxes, blurred rules – are already looking much harder than the politics of imposing it. The state has swollen hugely. You might assume, therefore, that the…
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May 20, 2020
Infected by ideas Biological Warfare

Infected by ideas

Is language a pestilence? Are bad ideas contagious? Is there safety in numbers? Are emotions dangerous? Or will they keep us going? Is the species frail? Is the species resilient and brave? Are we driven by prejudice and suspicion? Or can we put aside our grievances? Is love a disease?…
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May 20, 2020