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Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
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Needs to be full contact.

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"Cyber Real Kung Fu In the Year of the Horse"

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Unitree Spring Festival Gala Robots —a Full Release of Additional Details

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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Happy Louis Riel Day Manitobans, Métis, (and other Canadians)!

"Across Manitoba today, Louis Riel Day is being marked with reflection and celebration recognizing the Métis leader’s role in the creation of the province. More than 150 years after the Red River Resistance, Riel’s legacy continues to shape how Manitoba understands its history and identity. Riel helped negotiate Manitoba’s entry into Confederation in 1870, leading […]"

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Louis Riel Day celebrated across Manitoba Across Manitoba today, Louis Riel Day is being marked with reflection and celebration recognizing the Métis leader’s role in the creation of the province. More than 150 years after the Red River Resistance, Riel’s legacy continues to shape how Manitoba understands its history and identity. Riel helped negotiate Manitoba’s entry into Confederation in 1870, leading […]

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"As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”"

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Post by Faine Greenwood As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
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My 85 yr old dad unloading his pottery from a kiln and 100% also looking like a dwarven craftsman you meet in a dungeon who will sell you wares.

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"The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5..."

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Post by Justin Wolfers The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

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The people who developed the clots had a reaction to the virus used to make the shots and were genetically prone.

“By modifying or removing this specific adenovirus protein, future vaccines can avoid this extremely rare reaction while continuing to provide strong protection against disease"

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Scientists say they now know what went wrong with Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine Some people who took the shots developed a rare and severe type of blood clot called VITT
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