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'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin killed in automobile mishap at 27
LOS ANGELES — Anton Yelchin, a promising and prolific young actor beloved by his peers who recently caught a break playing Chekov in the new Star Trek films, was killed early Sunday in a freakish mishap with his own vehicle. He was 27. Publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed to Mashable that Yelchin had been killed in a collisionTMZ later reported that Yelchin was pinned between his Jeep and a brick p
Living legend: LeBron James delivers Cleveland first championship, ascends in NBA history
LeBron James just leveled up.  James on Sunday accomplished the goal he famously set when he returned "home" to the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent two years ago: Delivering the long-suffering sports city its first-ever NBA championship.  But that's just the beginning of this story.  SEE ALSO: NBA Finals: We need to talk about the Warriors' heel turn James scored had a triple-double
'Wife of Jesus' papyrus 'very likely' a fake
It is now almost certain that the 'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' is nothing more than a modern-day forgery. First discovered back in 2012 by Harvard professo...
Are our definitions of ‘college readiness’ too high?
David Freedman said: The College Board has suggested a “college readiness benchmark” that works out to roughly 500 on each portion of the SAT as a score below which students are not likely to achieve at least a B-minus average at “a four-year college” – presumably an average one. . . . How many high-school students are capable of meeting the College Board benchmark? This is not easy to answer, b
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'Angels' From Orlando's Theater Community Guard Mourners From Protesters
As mourners hold funerals in Orlando for the victims of Sunday's nightclub shooting, the Orlando theater community is banding together to protect them from anti-gay protesters.
Anton Yelchin, Star Trek actor, dies in car accident at age 27
The rising star – best known for playing Chekov in the new films – was found dead in his driveway early on Sunday morningAnton Yelchin, a charismatic rising star best known for playing Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films, has died at the age of 27. He was killed in a traffic accident early on Sunday morning, his publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed. Yelchin’s friends alerted police when he fail
The worst I've seen – trauma expert lifts lid on 'atrocity' of Australia's detention regime
Exclusive: In his 43-year career, Paul Stevenson has worked in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but says nothing he witnessed was as bad as the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus “In my entire career of 43 years I have never seen more atrocity than I have seen in the incarcerated situations of Manus Island and Nauru.”Paul Stevenson has had a life in trauma.
Antarctic carbon dioxide reaches highest levels in 4 million years
Antarctica has breached a symbolic threshold, seeing carbon dioxide levels of 400 ppm for the first time in 4 million years.
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Star Trek Actor Anton Yelchin Dies in Freak Car Accident [Updated]
According to the Associated Press, actor Anton Yelchin has died at the age of 27 in a car accident. Read more...
Roland Emmerich is Rebooting the Stargate Franchise From Scratch
We’ve known that Roland Emmerich has been planning on continuing his 1994 film Stargate for a while, but while chatting with the press about Independence Day: Resurgence, he and producer Dean Devlin have been dropping some more hints about what’s next for the franchise. Read more...
Blue Origin Aces 4th Reusable Rocket Launch (and Landing) in Live Webcast
Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has done it again. The private spaceflight company launched and landed a reusable rocket for the fourth time Sunday (June 19), with the typically secretive firm streaming live video of the successful test flight online.
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Happy Finding Dory Day!
All around the world, fans are celebrating Finding Dory Day, and Ellen found proof!From: TheEllenShow
Daddy Don't Go
vimeo.com/ondemand/daddydontgo Captured over two years, “Daddy Don’t Go” is a feature length documentary about four disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they struggle to beat the odds and defy the deadbeat dad stereotype. Find out more at daddydontgothemovie.com/Cast: Pureland Pictures
My Old Man | No.4 - Anchor Point
A poet and Texas songwriting legend, the infamous Townes Van Zandt left a powerful, if not destructive, legacy in his wake. And for his son JT, viewing Townes’ musical fervor encouraged him to find his own passion for the outdoors.Cast: YETI CoolersTags: yeti, yeti coolers, yeti cooler, yeti cup, yeti film, yeti movie, townes van zandt, jt van zandt, texas, fly fishing, fathers day and my old man
Oh, Puh-lice! Lucky Charms
Check out this hilarious installment of Ellen's segment, featuring police reports that are so funny, they're criminal!From: TheEllenShow
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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST24 unread articles  //  actions

Lynx May Once Again Roam Free in the UK
Proposal to rewild cats across England and Scotland moves forward in the British Isles
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?
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THE CORBETT REPORT31 unread articles  //  actions

Did A New Study Just Find GMOs Safe? – Questions For Corbett #030
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc030-lq.mp3"][/audio]Why does America attack the I-CIA-SIS it created? Was Gladio an outgrowth of SOE? How do you get a loved one out of the military? And did the National Academy of Sciences just find GMOs to be safe in a new study? Find out the answer to these and other burning questions as James opens the mailbag for this month's edition
Interview 1180 – Sibel Edmonds Reveals the Khomeini / America Connection
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-06-17%Sibel%20Edmonds.mp3"][/audio]Last week I reported on the recently declassified cables that show how Ayatollah Khomeini had a secret channel with the US through which he negotiated his return to Iran during the 1979 revolution. Today Sibel Edmonds of Newsbud.com joins us to discuss these newly-released documents, their significance a
Interview 1179 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-06-16%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: Governments trying to make gardening illegal; white collar robots are starting to manage offices; and governments want to regulate space travel.
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Should I forget who I am, please give me the music to remind me
      If you haven’t already seen the 2014 documentary “Alive Inside,” fire up Netflix tonight and watch it. And as soon as it’s done and you’ve mopped up what might very well be a small bucket of sad-happy tears at all the lives changed by something so small, you just might want to get started on your own music playlist.      The documentary is about a quest to give people back their music, most
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Ramey Memo and the $10,000 Reward
In recent posts about the Ramey Memo, there have been complaints about the lack of progress in clarifying the text so that much of it can be read to most people's satisfaction. It is quite possible we will never be able to fully clarify the text but that won’t stop us trying.Photo copyright by the University of Texas at Arlington.Many people who visit here will be aware of David Rudiak’s on-going
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.
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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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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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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Brexit / Escaping Fortress Europe
Clip on photo to enlargeA referendum is being held on Thursday, June 23rd, to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.To many, Britain leaving the EU is the equivilant of escaping fortress europe, with all its stifling rules, tariffs and regulations, as well as the growing possibility of a United States of Europe and new world order. As expected, Prime Minister David Ca
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
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it's crunch time at the bargaining table
Now here's an interesting calendar of events.June 27-29: The Negotiating Committee for CUPE Local 1989, Mississauga Library Workers Union, returns to the bargaining table for three days.June 30: The Negotiating Committee presents membership with a settlement offer. If the bargaining team recommends ratification, there is a ratification vote. If we do not recommend ratification, there is a strike v
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.
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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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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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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If Obama is responsible for Orlando, is Bush responsible for 9/11?
By MARC McDONALDSen. John McCain got a lot of flak on Thursday for saying that President Obama is "directly responsible" for the shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub in which 49 people were killed.I've got a couple of observations about this remark. First of all, McCain jumped the shark for me a long time ago. I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised at this latest nutty remark. Some
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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Overwhelming Evidence Points To Orlando Shooting Being A FALSE FLAG
It looks like the government and mainstream media are once again LYING to us and pushing the usual FALSE FLAG stories: either a Muslim terrorist lone nut gunman or a white supremacist rightwing lone nut gunman. In this post, I will provide all the information the government and mainstream media aren't telling us about the Orlando shooting and Omar Mateen. Some of the information is actually FROM t
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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
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A Last Stand for Lelu
The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary – Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas  –  without the consent of the people who rejected a $1.15 billion dollar deal from Petronas to gain that consent.The undersigned First Nation leaders and citizens of the Nine Allied Tribes of Lax
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.
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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

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