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Jamie receives some troubling news in 'Outlander' sneak peek
This has been more than a tumultuous season for Jamie and Claire on Outlander, and Saturday's episode, promises to deliver another blow In the following sneak peek, which you're seeing first on Mashable, Dougal gives Jamie a letter that informs the Jacobite leader that the prince wants them gone. "Exile — that's what it is. They want rid of us — of you," Dougal says. "They want yo
Executive says Facebook will be all video, no text in 5 years
Video must be doing well on Facebook, because an executive at the company just predicted that's all Facebook will be in five years. SEE ALSO: Facebook just became a much better place to share 360 photos Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president of European, Middle Eastern and African operations, said at a conference Tuesday that in five years, Facebook "will be probably all video," Q
Only one mammal on tiny island supposedly wiped out by climate that has always changed
In a nutshell — this poor little rat lived on a outcrop in the ocean near Papua New Guinea that was 300m long. It’s now gone, and some people blame “climate change”. A thousand tide gauges show the oceans are rising at 1mm a year. We also know the world was much hotter 7,000 years ago, and sea levels rose 125m in the 7,000 years before that. Somehow the rat survived that massive natural shift. Now
Facebook CEO insists that he is not a lizard
The social media giant's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg made the bizarre comment during a recent Q&A session. As head of the world's largest social me...
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Trump Time Capsule #24: 'There's No Real Assimilation'
George W. Bush with American Muslim leaders in Washington, less than one week after the 9/11 attacks. He celebrated Muslim inclusion in the national family, rather than warning that it was impossible. (Doug Mills / AP)Executive summary: what’s most wrong with Donald Trump’s latest statement about Muslim immigrants is not its bias. What most wrong is its stupidity.A real president, or real presiden
LIVE VIDEO: Democrats Hold Senate Floor In Push For Gun Control
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said he was prepared to talk on the floor for "as long as I can." He added that he had had "enough."
WATCH: Utah’s GOP Lt. governor tearfully apologizes to LGBTQ community, admits “my heart has changed” following Orlando attack
(Credit: AP/Rick Bowmer) While there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that the attack in Orlando has done much to boost the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s standing in the polls, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States has managed to move at least some elected Republican officials (and even a Fox News anchor). Utah’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox delivered a mov
Cristiano Ronaldo is the person with a small mentality, not the Iceland players | Paul Doyle
We’d recommend Ronaldo take a long hard look at himself in the mirror if we didn’t know that he already spends several hours a day doing exactly thatOne week in and Euro 2016 has already delivered some intriguing ironies, the most spectacular one being Cristiano Ronaldo complaining about over-celebration after Iceland enjoyed taking a point against Portugal on Tuesday night. We’d recommend Ronaldo
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Gravitational waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes
On December 26, 2015 at 03:38:53 UTC, scientists observed gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime—for the second time.
Senate Democrats Are Filibustering for Gun Control. Watch Live
Sen. Chris Murphy is filibustering on the Senate floor right now to push for legislation that would prevent terror suspects from buying guns. The post Senate Democrats Are Filibustering for Gun Control. Watch Live appeared first on WIRED.
Systemic RNA delivery to dendritic cells exploits antiviral defence for cancer immunotherapy
Systemic RNA delivery to dendritic cells exploits antiviral defence for cancer immunotherapy Nature 534, 7607 (2016). doi:10.1038/nature18300 Authors: Lena M. Kranz, Mustafa Diken, Heinrich Haas, Sebastian Kreiter, Carmen Loquai, Kerstin C. Reuter, Martin Meng, Daniel Fritz, Fulvia Vascotto, Hossam Hefesha, Christian Grunwitz, Mathias Vormehr, Yves HĆ¼semann, Abderraouf Selmi, Andreas N. Kuhn, J
3-D printed polymer turns methane to methanol
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined biology and 3-D printing to create the first reactor that can continuously produce methanol from methane at room temperature and pressure.
NASA Posters Recruit Mars Explorers
Why having a ‘bird brain’ is actually awesome
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Riding the Superman virtual reality roller coaster at Six Flags
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The San Diego Highwayman
Thomas Weller, a.k.a. “The San Diego Highwayman” has been rescuing people stranded on the side of the road for 48 years. When he was 16 years old, he drove his car into a ditch. A man came along and rescued him, asking only that Thomas pay it forward one day. Since that time, Weller has rescued thousands of people who were stranded in one way or another. Weller hands them a card that says “You don
Howie Mandel's Last-Minute Gift for Ellen
The hilarious Howie brought Ellen an unexpected (and useful) present, before showcasing some of his most recognizable cartoon voices. For Howie's tour dates, check out http://www.howiemandel.comFrom: TheEllenShow
Howie Mandel Talks Simon Cowell's Personal Oxygen
Howie told Ellen about how the new "America's Got Talent" judge is a breath of fresh air.From: TheEllenShow
Koala Bears Aren’t Actually Bears
How Dirt Can Help Slow Climate Change
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THE CORBETT REPORT28 unread articles  //  actions

Interview 1178 – Jerry Day Examines the Science of Social Control
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-06-14%Jerry%20Day.mp3"][/audio]Science is a method to help us answer questions about the physical world...but in this age of military/university partnerships, government grants and industry-funded research, who's asking the questions? Jerry Day of FreedomTaker.com joins us today to discuss the new technocratic overlords and how the tool o
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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST27 unread articles  //  actions

Defending Mongolia’s Growing National Park System
A visit with Tumursukh Jal, director of one of the largest protected areas in northern Asia
Tackling Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Blooms
US and Canada working together to reduce summer phosphorous levels in the smallest Great Lake
Australia’s Censorship of Unesco Climate Report is Like a Shakespearean Tragedy
The iconic Great Barrier Reef is clearly at risk from climate change, so why would Unesco agree to censor its own report?
Adventures of a Greenpeace Captain
The inside story of the Arctic 30, life in prison, and what it means to be free
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The invasion of Europe as a weapon to smash sovereignty world-wide
Alex Jones and David Icke have been working in the 'conspiracy' arena for decades.  Jones was infamous for his 'Germanic Death Cults' disinfo, Icke for his 'Shape-shifting Interdimensional Reptilians.  Jones was at the forefront of exposing the Saudi role in the 11th September 2001 massacre at the New York World Trade Centre, Icke propelled the Rothschilds beyond fringe politics and into the publi
The Sanity of Anti-Globalism versus the Lunacy of Nationalist Supremacism
I have been active politically for longer than I care to think about!  I have seen groups come, I have seen them go.  It is an unspoken rule amongst Nationalists to be generous to a fault when dealing with anyone who appears to be against the globalist agenda.  This has seen serious scum tolerated just because they happen to have a few points of ideology which are useful in confronting the forces
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A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE8 unread articles  //  actions

Fort Itaipu and Olavo Fontes Revisited
My recent postings on Fort Itaipu has ignited a firestorm of controversy. Well, not exactly. It sparked a semi-heated debate about the incident that seems to be more directed at the use of the term “fraudulent” in conjunction with information developed by Dr. Olavo Fontes than it was the facts of the case. It seems the alleged “character assassination” of Fontes was the source of the annoyance.Dr.
Ufology in Decline, Part Two
Back more years than I care to think about it, I developed my interest in flying saucers. At that time I had questions and wrote to both APRO and NICAP. NICAP responded with a membership package and nothing else. APRO responded with a membership package but also took the time to answer my questions. Naturally, I joined APRO and developed a relationship with both Jim and Coral Lorenzen.Over the yea
Mantell, Ruppelt and Blue Book
Bob Koford inadvertently opened a can of worms with a couple of his comments about the Mantell case. Using much of the Project Blue Book case file, he suggested that the balloon explanation didn’t work because the balloon was only at 20,000 feet and that a witness at Vanderbilt University had been watching it but saw no sign of Thomas Mantell’s F-51. Besides, the information suggested that Mantell
Chasing Notes... Sort Of...
Although this isn’t actually about chasing footnotes, it sort of began that way. I was trying to follow up on a comment about the Mantell crash and why it had happened. Nearly twenty years ago or so, I had a thought of creating a sort of peer review of UFO information using the Internet as the publishing vehicle as well as a way of getting that peer review. To that end, I selected the Mantell case
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A.E.BRAIN2 unread articles  //  actions

US Potty Panic Hysteria - Multimedia edition
You're all going to HellA freshman U.S. Congressman quickly made a name for himself Thursday morning at a weekly early morning meeting of Republican lawmakers. GOP Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia quoted Bible verses and told his fellow Republicans that they are "going to hell" if they vote for the a vital spending bill later that morning because of an attached amendment that would protect LGB
A US Potty Panic Roundup
Anyone who's been watching the US political scene recently must be wondering if they've all suddenly gone crayzeee.The State of North Carolina was first cab off the rank. You see, the city of Charlotte, after years of debate and study, passed an ordinance that added 9 words to existing legislation.Sec. 12-58. - Prohibited acts.(a) It shall be unlawful to deny any person the full and equal enjoymen
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ACTIVIST TEACHER1 unread article  //  actions

Frightening Education
I was recently asked to evaluate grade-4 student answers to an open question for a prize. I accepted to study the answers as a favour to the person asking me. I don't want to identify anyone or any organization so I won't tell you the question, but is was a question of the type "Do bright colours make people more happy?" Open format, whatever you want to say. I found the exercise to be
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WPB/NYC AND ANYTHING ELSE; A GREEN RIGHTS COL...1 unread article  //  actions

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ALLEN L ROLAND'S WEBLOG7 unread articles  //  actions

Primary Election Advice For Democrats / Trust Your Base Or Lose It
Ever get the feeling that you have been marginalized and steam rolled by a giant political machine ~ welcome to California where two million plus primary votes remain uncounted, where voter suppression definitely occurred, and where Queen Hillary is being prematurely anointed by the party elite, President Obama  and the Main Stream Media. This is a desperate political attempt to avoid the stark re
My Macarthur Foundation World Peace Proposal
                                                    A Universal Brotherhood The MacArthur Foundation, known for bestowing ''genius'' grants on artists, actors and other creative people, introduced a new competition on Thursday that would award an organization with the best proposal to solve a global problem. The competition, called 100&Change, is open to organizations in any field, anywhere
Support The Troops / Empty Words For Betrayed Disabled Veterans
Pause this Memorial Day for a few moments and watch this documentary on how America has in many ways treated many of its active duty veterans like Lab Rats for the past 100 years ~ from WW I through the Gulf Wars, and still continues to pander or answer to the Military Industrial Complex: Allen L Roland, PhD and Disabled US Navy Veteran.   On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at patriotic cerem
Looking For God / Within The Kingdom Of Religious Confusion ~ Book Review
A layman's odyssey every 'open-minded' Atheist, Jew, Christian, Muslim, Agnostic or Spiritual seeker must read!Art Schade's tour de force work of creative fiction which focuses on looking for God in a world of religious confusion brought me face to face with how differently, regardless of religion, we all interpret God in a time of crisis ~ and yet how similar many of these interpretations seem to
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ANGOLA 3 NEWS1 unread article  //  actions

Support the Leonard Peltier Statue Project / Take Action w/ Amnesty USA
Take Action by joining Amnesty International USA's call for President Obama to release Leonard Peltier!Featured below is the full post from the Leonard Peltier Statue Project:9″ epoxy resin model, Alcatraz Prison Mess Hall, February 13, 2016 – First “Indians of All Tribes Day.”As you might already know, Leonard Peltier has now spent four entire decades behind bars for a crime he has not committed.
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ARMSCONTROLWONK7 unread articles  //  actions

The Cruel Politics of Arms Limitation
Arms limitation is ridiculously hard to explain and even harder to accomplish. Arms limitation is useful when dealing with bad actors that possess fearsome weapons. If success requires self-limitation as well, the results are often met with derision, since bad actors cannot be trusted. (See U.S. vs. Soviet Union/Russian Federation.) Even when success occurs without …
The Clothes Geolocate the Man
Or, geolocating Kim Jong Un by his (somewhat questionable) fashion choices. A joint post with Dave Schmerler. Surely, you remember this image, notable because it shows a mock-up of a compact nuclear warhead and Kim Jong Un in a ridiculous coat, hat, and eyeglasses. KCNA reported on the visit on March 9, 2016. One question …
The Humanitarian Pledge, Nuclear Weapons, and the Laws of War
Dear Readers of ACW: I have posted the perspectives of others in this space on whether the explosive use of nuclear weapons can be reconciled with the laws of war. This discussion is useful, in my view, because it clarifies that the continued abundance of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Russian …
MIRVS!
“MIRV” stands for Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicles, the ability to put lots of very accurate nuclear warheads on a single missile.  Michael Krepon watched the US-Soviet arms race dangerously accelerate as both sides deployed large numbers of MIRVed missiles in the 1970s. Now other countries, like China and India, seem to be heading down this …
Announcing Geo4Nonpro!
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Sponsored Post: FT Pub Quiz Takes Look at Wacky 2016 Election Season
By MARC McDONALDAs many pundits have noted, this has been one of the most wacky and bizarre political campaign seasons in decades. And I sometimes wonder if we've ever faced an election where the voters were less informed on the issues, and the candidates, than they are today.I recall reading once about the early days of television. The great TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, among others, had high hop
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Bullying Is NOT Leadership Mr. Trudeau.
Bullying is not leadership, whether it is invoking Closure on an important Bill or testosteronic rampaging on the floor of the House of Commons which injured a fellow Member of Parliament. Just sayin' :(
"Trudeau's Rampage"
Trudeau's Rampage it is :)
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CHERCHEZ LA VERITE4 unread articles  //  actions

Dear friends, Normally I would find the video on YouTube and put it in a blog re-post. However, there was no YouTube version. Why? Likely because
Western Financial System Looting Greece June 2, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. http://kyklosproductions.com/video/160526_pressTV_greece/ Cherchez la Verite
Do you ever wonder why Paul Craig Roberts refers to Hillary Clinton as "Killary"? Well read this. This artical was composed by Michael Collins, a friend of mine who writes factual articals on places and people that most U.S. readers would not learn about from the so-called "mainstream media".
What about violence from the Clinton campaign?Posted on May 18, 2016 by Michael CollinsBy Michael Collins (Creative Commons 4.0)Some rough housing at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce their actions. The double standard on this issue is s
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Pay to Play in BC with Postmedia real estate
In June 2013, the ailing Vancouver Postmedia papers The Sun and The Province dumped 100 employees plus two out of four floors of their downtown Vancouver offices. Colliers International, "the biggest player in the domestic commercial real estate industry", subleased the two now empty floors.The previous year, Colliers and Postmedia had launched their joint venture "Property Post&qu
Pay to Play in BC with farmland
1. BC has no restrictions on foreign donors to political parties.2. BC has no restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland.3. Legislation protecting farmland is a provincial responsibility.In 1974, BC passed Agricultural Land Reserve legislation to protect farmland but two years ago Christie Clark's government weakened its mandate :National Farmers Union : Losing Our Grip 2015 Update : How Corpor
Canadian Cynic Legal Defence Fund
Ezra Levant of Rebel Media is suing the Big Dog for defamation.Go show him some support :https://www.gofundme.com/28gudysBonus track : Ezra Levant sues self for defamation.
The Curious Case of Michael Sona
These few lines at Radio Canada and Adam Donaldson's Guelph Politico Blog are the only mentions I have found anywhere that Michael Sona, convicted of aiding and abetting unknown perp(s) in an unsolved crime of unknown proportions, lost his sentence appeal last Wednesday and headed back to jail to serve out his nine month sentence.Sona, with nothing to deal and no electronic or material evidence of
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DAMMIT JANET!4 unread articles  //  actions

LifeSite Is Just Embarassing Itself: Fetal Pain Redux
They really got nuthin'. Look at this from yesterday's LieShite.The Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] is facing calls to retract a 2005 study that pro-lifers have labeled a “propaganda tool” for abortion activists.In 2016, fetus freaks are attacking a study from 2005 still deployed to refute the BAD (biased, agenda-driven) science used to pass "fetal pain" laws, lowering
New! Fraudster Certification
Hey, fetus freaks! Want to make money from your fetish? Of course you do!Get certified in Fake Clinic Management!OKWU [Oklahoma Wesleyan University] is launching an “applied bioethics” certificate program this July that will train students in pro-life activism and pregnancy center management. It’s a partnership with the Life Training Institute and Care Net.The "credits" will be transferr
Fake Clinics Respond! With More Lies!
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada's (ARCC) review of websites for 166 fake clinics, aka crisis pregnancy centres. (PDF link to entire study.)LifeShite has since published a hilarious "rebuttal" that says, in essence, "sure, we lie, but we could lie a LOT more."Some examples: [Jared] White [executive director of Advokate Life and Education
SHOCKER! Fake Clinics Lie
The Abortion Rights Coalition has released a major study into the online presence of Canadian fake clincs, or crisis pregnancy centres (full PDF report).From the press release:Anti-abortion counselling agencies in Canada often present misinformation on their websites or fail to disclose their anti-choice or religious agenda to prospective clients, according to a new study published today by the Ab
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we movie to canada: wmtc annual movie awards, 2015-16 edition
I'm posting my annual movie awards later and later every year. I'm also watching fewer movies, because I'm watching more TV shows. When I come home on Friday or Saturday, exhausted and needing total downtime, sometimes even a movie is too much mental effort; binge-watching a series is somehow easier. So I end up with a ton of movies on the List, unwatched, year after year.But no matter. Here's wha
happy birthday to me
Apparently I have been alive on this planet for 55 years. That seems completely impossible. Yet there it is.As always on my birthday, I feel incredibly fortunate to be alive and living such a good life. Thanks for still reading my (now occasional) blather.
pupdate: happiness is a cancer-free dog
Tala's stitches were removed last week, and we got the full biopsy results: clean margins all around. The surgeon says she does not expect to ever see us again. A week later, I'm still feeling waves of joy and relief. Allan takes the good news in stride, by not letting himself fully contemplate the bad news to begin with.Watching Tala's crazy-thick fur grow in is interesting! A soft undercoat has
the greatest, forever. rest in power muhammad ali.
Revolutionary thought of the day, from a revolutionary American.Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to conti
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As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Pro...
As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA, State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death. This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive, and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorg
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WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE2 unread articles  //  actions

How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
Here’s a new creature provided for your amusement by the wonderful folks at Dark Mountain:  How Did Things Get To Be This Way?   
The Myth of Human Supremacy
 When an unlucky person has been swept away by the brainwashing of a wacko cult, concerned friends or family members sometimes seek the assistance of a skilled deprogrammer to exorcize the demons.  It’s a painful process.  The scrambled soul is blasted with a fire-hose of strong rational arguments, hour after hour, hammering away at the many contradictions in the cult’s beliefs.  Ideally, the shi
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GREG MANKIW'S BLOG9 unread articles  //  actions

Bad ideas never die
In the Silicon Valley suburbs, activists are pushing for laws that limit rents, even though, as the article says, "economists have an almost universally dim view of rent control."
Summers on Trump
Larry says the Donald would be a disaster.
Elinor Ostrom in the news (sort of)
A friend emails me:This article in the today's NY Times discusses how musicians who play near the site where John Lennon died have had trouble managing the common resource of a strategically placed park bench. Currently, however, they have worked out an informal arrangement that appears to work well. The article reminded me of the work of Elinor Ostrom, who was awarded  the Nobel Prize in part for
What I am doing today
Conversing with the Fed chair.Update:
Sachs on Sanders
McCloskey on Growth
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THE RULES OF EXPOSITION1 unread article  //  actions

Formatting HTML, a detail
On the econ blog I'm complaining about Martin Feldstein. Yeah you should have heard of him // I'm not gonna say who he is // It doesn't matter anyway.I looked him up on Wikipedia. Copied the first paragraph & pasted into my blog. Pasted it in the "compose" view. That way the links and HTML formatting gets pasted in, along with the text. So I get to see how (in this case) Wikipedi

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