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Citing Covid threat, Australian council SHOT SHELTER DOGS dead instead of allowing volunteers to collect them

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A government probe has been launched after officials in New South Wales, Australia, shot and killed shelter dogs that were due to be rescued by volunteers – allegedly in an effort to prevent the volunteers spreading Covid-19. … Read More >Citing Covid threat, Australian council SHOT SHELTER DOGS dead instead of allowing volunteers to collect them

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Company towns make a comeback, US blunders its escape from Afghanistan, update from Sheikh Jarrah

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Naomi Karavani introduces viewers to a retro development in corporate totalitarian power. ‘Company towns’ were made famous by coal towns where miners and their families would live in houses, shop at grocery stores, spend independent ‘scrip’ currencies, and send their kids to schools owned by their employers. Modern corporations are trying to bring back this practice in towns across the US. … Read More >Company towns make a comeback, US blunders its escape from Afghanistan, update from Sheikh Jarrah

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Rare earth minerals: The real reason the US is threatening China with war (full show)

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You want to know the real reason why the United States is going after China? Rick explores rare earth minerals–the raw material used to create almost all of our high-tech products. And guess where 90% of our planet’s rare earth minerals come from? You guessed it–China. … Read More >Rare earth minerals: The real reason the US is threatening China with war (full show)

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Giant panda no longer on ‘endangered’ species list as wildlife conditions improve – China’s top conservation official

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The giant panda has been moved one level up on China’s extinction threat scale due to its increasing numbers, the country’s conservation chief has said. … Read More >Giant panda no longer on ‘endangered’ species list as wildlife conditions improve – China’s top conservation official

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‘Catastrophic impact’: Tasmanian devils ‘wipe out’ large penguin colony on Australian island as animal introduction goes wrong

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Australia’s endangered Tasmanian devils have eliminated a local colony of penguins and decimated other bird fauna after they were brought to Maria Island in a bid to save them from extinction due to animal cancer. … Read More >‘Catastrophic impact’: Tasmanian devils ‘wipe out’ large penguin colony on Australian island as animal introduction goes wrong

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Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’

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Researchers at an Australian university have been granted thousands of dollars from the government to work on AI-based devices that would help identify individual koalas crossing the roads in the country. … Read More >Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’