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Brits are begging Obama to move to the UK and become Prime Minister
Obama's presidency may be rapidly nearing its end, but from the sounds of it, at least on social media, he could easily make a political career in the UK if he wanted to. SEE ALSO: British celebrities have very strong reactions to the U.S. election result Following Obama's post-election speech on Wednesday, British Twitter exploded with people calling for him to come and rule in Britain. Can the
Trump descends on White House for most awkward icebreaker ever
It's a moment many believed would never happen: President Obama and Donald Trump in the same room. Speaking. Shaking hands. Calling each other excellent. A grim but determined President Obama met the president-elect Donald Trump for the first time in the White House on Thursday and it was horribly uncomfortable. The heart-breaking expression on Obama's face said it all. SEE ALSO: Trump's kind wor
Real-life snake on a plane disrupts flight
The large green reptile slithered out of a ceiling compartment during a routine flight to Mexico City. In the cult classic movie 'Snakes on a Plane', ...
Mystery surrounds X-rays streaming from Pluto
Scientists have spotted X-rays trickling from the dwarf planet despite there being no obvious source. Pluto might be small, but when New Horizons obta...

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The VICE Guide to Right Now: Muslim Women Have Been Attacked at Multiple Colleges Since Trump Won
Photo via Flickr user Örlygur Hnefill Police are looking into multiple assaults on Muslim women that have taken place on university campuses in the days following Trump's election, the New York Times reports. On Wednesday, a female Muslim student at San Diego State University was reportedly robbed by two men as she walked to her car. According to police , the men took her purse, backpack, and car
Democrats once represented the working class. Not anymore | Robert Reich
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama helped shift power away from the people towards corporations. It was this that created an opening for Donald Trump What has happened in America should not be seen as a victory for hatefulness over decency. It is more accurately understood as a repudiation of the American power structure. At the core of that structure are the political leaders of both parties, their p
Trump to Create Jobs for Unskilled White Males
WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report )—Fulfilling a promise that was a hallmark of his campaign, President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Thursday that on Day One of his Administration he would create jobs for two unskilled white males. See the rest of the story at newyorker.com Related: Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned Is Late-Night Political Comedy Useless? Waiting for the Female Future at Wellesley
After the election of Donald Trump, we will not mourn. We will organize | Gloria Steinem
This is a time of great danger, as most of us try to escape control by some of us, and old hierarchies reassert themselves. The risk is great, but so is the prize In my country, the white-lash and the man-lash have just created President Donald Trump, an unqualified candidate who came up not through politics, but through inheriting money, a gift for bullying, and being on television. Though Hilla

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[Review] The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people
Most ecological processes now show responses to anthropogenic climate change. In terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, species are changing genetically, physiologically, morphologically, and phenologically and are shifting their distributions, which affects food webs and results in new interactions. Disruptions scale from the gene to the ecosystem and have documented consequences for peo
[Report] Single-molecule optomechanics in “picocavities”
Trapping light with noble metal nanostructures overcomes the diffraction limit and can confine light to volumes typically on the order of 30 cubic nanometers. We found that individual atomic features inside the gap of a plasmonic nanoassembly can localize light to volumes well below 1 cubic nanometer (“picocavities”), enabling optical experiments on the atomic scale. These atomic features are dyna
How the 18th-century steam engine helped physicists make a quantum breakthrough
The hissing sound you hear in the background when you turn up the volume of your music player is called "noise". Most of this hiss is due to the thermal motion of electrons in the music-player circuitry. Just like molecules in a hot gas, electrons in the circuitry are constantly jiggling about in a random fashion, and this motion this gives rise to an unwanted noise signal.
Nintendo Might Just Rule the Holidays With Its NES Classic Stocking Stuffer
Perfect renditions of classic 8-bit games like Super Mario and Zelda, plus a low price, all but guarantees success for the NES Classic Edition mini-console. The post Nintendo Might Just Rule the Holidays With Its NES Classic Stocking Stuffer appeared first on WIRED .

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Style Frames Opening Titles
Opening titles for Stash and Fitc's Style Frames conference. Directed, Designed, Animated by - Eran Hilleli Executive Producer for hornet - Hana Shimizu Producer - Anna Lauren Tufekci Music & Sounds by - Disasterpeace Additional Designs by - Jonathan Djob Nkondo Additional Animation by - Daniel Moos Additional Modeling & Animation - Yoav Shtibelman & Uri Lotan Thank you to - Hornet, Stephen Price
GLUE
GLUE - expressing a close perspective to the feeling of snowboarding. a film by CHRISTIAN HALLER KRIS LÜDI STEPHAN MAURER starring CHRISTIAN HALLER DAVID BERTSCHINGER KARG BEN FERGUSON SCOTTY JAMES JAN SCHERRER ALEX TANK GABRIELE TORRIANI supported by MONSTER ENERGY BURTON SNOWBOARDS Cast: Christian Haller , Kris Lüdi , HILLTON , Stephan Maurer , David Bertschinger Karg and Atagge
Ellen on Her Most Important Job
Ellen talks about her role for the country and how it's important now, more so than ever, to maintain a positive outlook. From: TheEllenShow
'Strange Doctor' Starring Ellen and Justin Timberlake
Inspired by Dr. Strange in no way at all, Ellen debuted the trailer for her new film, co-starring Justin Timberlake. The doctor will see you now! From: TheEllenShow

The Corbett Report

Interview 1225 – Larken Rose on the Immorality of Voting
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-07%20Larken%20Rose.mp3"][/audio] Your vote is statistically meaningless and will not sway the (s)election. Your vote is strategically meaningless and decides nothing about the future of the country. Your vote is useless, as the (s)election is rigged anyway. But as Larken Rose reminds us, what really matters is that voting is immoral, legitimizi
Interview 1226 – Financial Survival: The Day After the (s)Election
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-10%20Financial%20Survival.mp3"][/audio] The touchscreen voting machines have spoken: Donald J. Trump is now Lord Emperor of the American Empire. So what now? Join James and Alfred Adask for their weekly conversation on Financial Survival where they discuss the aftermath of the (s)election circus and where the world is heading now.
Interview 1227 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-10%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on the New World Next Week: Say hello to President Trump; sorting through ballot measures; and Pizzagate must not be allowed to go quietly.

The EnvironmentaList

Taking On Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia
Ongoing research project raises awareness of the issue while mobilizing affected residents to action
BLM Must Begin the Process of Tapering Fossil Fuel Development
Keeping climate change in check requires a halt to new oil and gas leasing
Two Years After the Colorado Pulse Flow — An Abundance of Life
Birds, plants, and groundwater continue to benefit from pilot effort to revive the Colorado River delta, says report
Why Oil Change International’s Report On Fossil Fuels is Even Better Than You Thought
It sets aside worries about “stranded assets” and recommends “managed decline” of fossil fuel use

The Rules of Exposition

It just sounds better
From an ad for my senator: "... We make more than a half million guitar strings a day ..." They say "a half million". But I hear "uh half million" and it sounds so dumb. Anyway, the units are not half-millions. The units are millions. So you don't say "a half million". You say "half a million". That way the units are right. Besides it just sounds better: "... We make more than half a million guita

A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

Information dumps as a tool to smother dissent
This feels like an important piece. It's a New York Times commentary from Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science who writes for the Times on occasion. Her point is that massive information dumps like the ones Wikileak is known for, one of which is currently making life miserable for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary C
The highs and lows of social media, as experienced through the issue I care most about
Social media is an interesting beast, most particularly for how each form appeals and responds to users in entirely different ways. This is fascinating stuff for us communications types. I’ve found kindred spirits on all three of the platforms I like best – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But they’re not the same kindred spirits. The people I want to know and connect with on one platform are not

Activist Teacher

Respecting 'Rules of War' in Societal Battles: Science, Sex and Hate Speech
This article was first published on Dissident Voice. By Denis G. Rancourt, PhDSummary: I argue that in the many societal battles that serve to repair continually arising unjust features of the societal hierarchy, individuals must respect two fundamental “rules of war”: (1) Not to violate the natural right of individual self-determination (control over one’s body and mind) and (2) not to violate
‘Black Lives Matter has a plantation mentality’ --Elaine Brown
There was a time, just a few decades ago, when "organizing" meant actual self-generated community self-defence and reparation programs, headed by an independent political party, and the language was not in any way polluted by "critical race theory" mush. I say do it or don't do it but stop asking the occupying government to do it, and stop "organizing" the asking of the master to be more
Harmful Idiocy Syndrome (definition)
Harmful idiocy syndrome is a widespread disease that affects many political commentators. There are several pathogenic and environmental causes. "Zero-tolerance" dogma is a main pathogen, whether applied to speech, social behaviour, political organizing, risk abatement, violence used in actual self-defence, or state violence in defending state sovereignty against a murderous attacker or

Allen L Roland's Weblog

A Message From The Queen
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II . In the shocked aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, I think it imperative that we hear some stern advice from our former queen ~ to prepare ourselves for the consequences of our action and the difficult days that well may lay ahead. See video ~ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38318-a-divided-nation-as-trump-wins-electoral-college-clinton-wins-popular-vo
Two Political Clowns Ring Down The Curtain
The political circus of 2016 is winding down and the clowns are doing their best to make it all seem relevant as they engage in mock battle trading insults and innuendoes while many of the spectators, including myself, sense the Republic is in its final death throes. Our great 240 year experiment in Democracy is coming to a close as the plutocracy asserts itself through Citizens United and only t
Amy Goodman Speaks Truth To Power Defending Our 1st Amendment Rights
Amy Goodman reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. (image: Democracy Now ! "Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action " ~ Julian Bond "The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government…We have to protect all journalists
From The Sublime To The Ridiculous / Sf Giants Dynasty Unravels With A Whimper
The Dynasty is over for the 2016 Giants who won the world Championship in 2010, 2012 and 2014 and were three outs from another playoff elimination game win over the Chicago Cubs on October 11th, a day after a sublime come from behind win against the Cubs. Then the piano fell on their collective heads as manager Bruce Bochy obviously over managed his team, killing the momentum by replacing Matt Mo

Amused Cynicism

Donald Trump Will Win the Election*
* as predicted by my cat Caligula. In more detail, Caligula is predicting that it will look like Clinton is winning as the first results come in, but eventually it will be a Trump victory.
Merit Beliefs versus Crony Beliefs
Kevin Simler writes about crony beliefs : the human brain has to strike an awkward balance between two different reward systems: Meritocracy , where we monitor beliefs for accuracy out of fear that we’ll stumble by acting on a false belief; and Cronyism , where we don’t care about accuracy so much as whether our beliefs make the right impressions on others. And so we can roughly (with caveats we’
Pirates come 3rd in Iceland Election
(via Iceland Monitor )

Angola 3 News

UK Guardian interview Albert Woodfox: ‘I choose to use my anger as a means for changing things’
RELATED: Albert Woodfox and Robert King's European Tour in November A new UK Guardian article written by Rowan Moore features an interview with Albert Woodfox, where he reflects upon life after release, among other things. An excerpt is featured below, but you can read the full article here. It was, he says, “so disappointing when I got out to find that conditions when I left 45 years ago are sti

Big Dan's Big Blog

Trump's Rightwing Media Deplorables
People seem to be having a brain cramp and are forgetting that if you vote for Trump, you are also getting these rightwing media deplorables, racists, white supremacists, Archie & Edith Bunker's, Archie Bunkers, off-the-wall paranoid KOOKY conspiracy theorists, and more: In the top collage, 2nd picture top row, there's racist woman-hater Rush Limbaugh who never met a black group he didn't like. H

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Monsef "very very sorry" she cannot advocate for PR
Tweets like the above appeared today following Minister Monsef's Q&A at her Victoria BC public consultation. Her remarks echo those of Justin Trudeau earlier this week giving rise to the fear that the Liberals are backtracking on implementing electoral reform and their campaign promise that 2011 would be "the last election under FPtP". I've transcribed her responses to the two relevant questions
The Cons mini-referendum
This summer the Conservative Party Caucus had themselves a mini-referendum about having a referendum about electoral reform. ERRE Committee vice-chair Scott Reid held a presser about it last Friday and was very pleased to announce a 90.6% approval rating from the 81,389 returned responses. Sure, the ballot only went out to 59 ridings held by Con MPs and allowed 4 responses per household, but stil
Referendumpster fire
CPC MP and ERRE committee member Scott Reid held a presser today to lay out the CPC position on electoral reform : No referendum, no Consent to electoral reform. Mr Reid cites the results of a householder CPC MPs sent to their constituents. Shocker : 90.6% of them voted for a referendum. Wikipedia : "In Canadian politics, a Ten Percenter is a party political flyer that MPs have the right to mail
Justin Trudeau's 16 word report on electoral reform
Results of the public consultation on electoral reform in the Papineau riding " most were favourable to the idea of a proportional and mixed-proportional voting system" Discussion of electoral reform in Canada suffered from an almost total four month legacy media blackout on the more than 40 Electoral Reform Committee meetings held in June through October hearing from over 300 witnesses. Ditto th

DAMMIT JANET!

Charitable Status Is Key: "100 Who Care" Update
I said back here that I would report on any replies from the "100 Who Care" groups I blogged about. Only one has. And I had a private conversation with a member of another group in Atlantic Canada. The first thing to know: not all groups operate the same way. I got a reply from an organizer of 100 Women Who Care Ottawa , who used only her first name. In my initial email I advised that I would be b
New Kind of Fake Clinics
My, my. It seems that there is a "Wild West" of unlicensed, unregulated fake clinics offering bogus advice and treatment. Ha. You thought I was talking Fake Abortion Clinics. Nope. Fake Concussion Clinics. It seems anyone can start a hotline, or set up a clinic offering to treat concussions, a brain injury. There is no active federal or provincial oversight. It's an essentially unregulated field,
We Do NOT Need a Law
Contrary to the foot-stomping fetus fetishists , Canada does NOT need an abortion law. The foot-stompers shrieeeek: "Canada is the only country in the western world with no laws restricting abortion!!!!!!!!" Well, why would we want to use a law to restrict it? Does it need to be restricted because it's dangerous? No. Abortion is a very safe medical procedure. In fact, it is "markedly" safer than c
Taking Over Riding Associations For Life
Remember Liberals for Life ? Liberals for Life was a pro-life advocacy group that worked within the Liberal Party of Canada during the 1980s and early 1990s. Some of its members were also affiliated with the Campaign Life Coalition, and, as such, the group was often accused of entryism. According to its members, Liberals for Life was created after the national victory of Brian Mulroney's Progress

Dr Cintli

Election 2016 and Revisiting the New Jim & Juan Crow
As we all know, for probably three-fourths of the electorate ― between women and people of color ― the choice for president should have been a no-brainer. Essentially, the choice was made for us; that’s how many people one candidate intentionally insulted. Along with that, promises by politicians don’t impress. For many, day-to-day issues matter more than slick propaganda. For example, this past
The 2016 Elections. Flirting with Fascism, Dancing with Apartheid:
by Roberto Rodriguez As a lifelong writer, my journalist ethic has prevented me from ever endorsing anyone, yet, that has never stopped me from commenting on elections, especially ones in which a sizable portion of the electorate appears to be flirting with the twin evils of fascism and apartheid. Having lived through the Nixon, Reagan and Bush eras, one could legitimately ask: is the current mis
Rodriguez: Nightmare Looms for an Original DREAMER
by Roberto Rodriguez This is the story of Lizbeth Mateo, a young, bright Indigenous woman from Oaxaca, Mexico, and a recent graduate from the Santa Clara University School of Law, who today finds herself under threat of imminent deportation. There was a time when young brown peoples lived in the shadows, avoided the light of the day, and avoided all manner of authority and government officials. A
Standing Rock Standoff Just Latest in Pipeline Crises
October 30, 2016 by Roberto Rodriguez The historic battle over the 1170-mile Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) has consequences far beyond the environmental danger posed by what is deep below the Earth’s surface — what is referred to as “zuzeca sape” or the black snake — or the millions of barrels of oil that are slated to move from North Dakota to Illinois. This includes Lakota, Dakota and Nakota l

Fort McMurray Adventures

6 Months
It's hard to believe that six months have now passed since the day I was forced to leave work, my house and then my community due to a raging wildfire that has since been dubbed The Beast. Almost exactly six months ago to the minute I was sitting in my tenant's truck outside the recreation centre in Anzac still trying to wrap my brain around what was happening before slowly drifting off to sleep.

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Valerian - City of a Thousand Planets - Luc Besson sci-fi comic-to-film
Valerian - City of a Thousand Planets - Luc Besson sci-fi comic-to-film. I'm in...
Star Citizen - 5.0 sandbox rework - due in 2018?
look, I realise without even emailing my most recent C.V. to their H.R. Unit that C.I.G or Cloud Imperium Games aka C.R.I or Chris Roberts Industries i.e. the legendary W.G.C. or Wing Commander Creator ain't gonna whisk yours truly westward from Oxford UK across the Atlantic on an all-expenses-paid consultancy to work with his truly in Austin TX on the 5.0 sandbox iteration of his "Star Citizen"
Star Citizen? Will it ever be? Funda--mentally finished?
yeah, I know, "Star Citizen has not even been released yet," but this game that's been in crowd-funded production for four years looks like it's never going to be FUND-A-MENTALLY FINISHED to the point where the basic gaming world seems convincingly solid. And I'm not talking about the gorgeous ship design. I'm not talking about all the effort that's gone into the art direction and planet-renderin
Electric Universe - Space News - Pluto just got wierd--er...
Pluto is a diverse outer solar system set of self-orbiting rocks... but it also displays Electric Universe properties and has an x-ray signature associated with a comet-like corona extending many times the times of the planet indicating interaction with the solar wind. Pluto's probably going to show similar plasmatic stretch marks and birthing pains of a planet like Mars or Venus with its vast fl
 

Home Nature Report

ELECTION NEWS 2016 ~Stay in the How & Imagine a Better Reality
Here's a round-up of the stars that now form a bright constellation around Jill and Ajamu - and what they have to say: 1.) Dr. Cornel West "I wholeheartedly support Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. And I’m writing to you today to let you know, they have my endorsement - and I know they have your support as well." 2.) Chris Hedges "It is imperative that you join me in contributing to the Stein/Baraka
 

Middle Class Political Economist

Need Readers' Advice
Yesterday, a non-plurality of the voters chose a new President. Just like in 2000, the Electoral College is not going to the candidate with the most votes. As this new President has also shown himself to not share our democratic ideals, I find it difficult to have much respect for him. Indeed, I am considering not calling him by his name, ever. But perhaps I am just reacting out of the immediate s
Election of popular vote loser proves necessity of abolishing Electoral College
For the second time in just 16 years, the new President is actually the loser of the national popular vote (click on "Popular Vote"). This is the fifth time this has happened in U.S. history; the last time it happened prior to 2000 was in 1888. As children, we were all taught to believe in democracy and majority (or as we later learned, sometimes just plurality) rule. But with the way that rural a
New study casts more doubt on data center subsidies
A new report by Good Jobs First confirms what has been long-suspected: Data center megadeals of over $50 million in subsidies create very few jobs at a cost per job that easily exceeds $1 million. Indeed, the average for 11 megadeals going to tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft came to $1.8 million ($2.1 billion/1174) nominal cost per job. As I have discussed before , such a fi
 

Middle East Today

The Use of Gold as reserve to Support the Egyptian Pound Arab Net News reported (10/19/2016) that the Egyptian governme...
The Use of Gold as reserve to Support the Egyptian Pound Arab Net News reported (10/19/2016) that the Egyptian government is shipping to Canada its monthly gold production of 344KG from the Sukari mines to be purified and sold in the world market. The Sukari mine of Egypt is classified as one of the ten largest gold mine in the world. In some western countries such as the US, gold has been kept a
 

Morton's Musings

What Is the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement All About?
Unlike most jurisdictions Nunavut was recognized as a result of negotiation and a statute. The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) created Nunavut as jurisdiction and recognized the right of the Inuit of Nunavut to self-government and a separate territory. The basis for the NLCA was an exchange or conversion of existing Inuit rights into a new form – the Territory of Nunavut together with specifi
Lawyers and Conflict of Interest
Suppose you are married and you and your spouse decide to split up. Everything is very amicable and everyone agrees on everything. There really is nothing to fight about but money is (as always) a little tight. You and you spouse both want a separation agreement and a divorce and since everything is agreed decide you will both use one lawyer since that's a bit cheaper. At first blush it may seem s
Division of powers: Vires and Paramountcy
CITATION: Canada Post Corporation v. Hamilton (City), 2016 ONCA 767: [31] The following section first articulates the general principles of the division of powers analysis, specifically the doctrines of ultra vires and paramountcy, and then applies them to the facts of this appeal. (1) The general principles (a) Pith and Substance [32] The first step in a division of powers analysis is to charact
Limitations Defences Must Be Pleaded
Singh v. Trump, 2016 ONCA 747: [132] This court has consistently held that "[t]he expiry of a limitation period is a defence to an action that must be pleaded in a statement of defence": Collins v. Cortez , 2014 ONCA 685, [2014] O.J. No. 4753, at para. 10, per van Rensburg J.A. (citing S. (W.E.) v. P. (M.M.) (2000), 50 O.R. (3d) 70 (C.A.), at paras. 37-38, leave to appeal to S.C.C. refused, [2001
 

New Orleans Ladder

Consider The Alligator II: Big Changes Come To Louisiana’s Gator Ranching Industry ~Scrumptious Chef
Consider The Alligator II: Big Changes Come To Louisiana’s Gator Ranching Industry ~Scrumptious Chef
Attorneys in BP settlement will divide $555.2 million, modest compared to similar cases, judge says~ The Advocate
Attorneys in BP settlement will divide $555.2 million, modest compared to similar cases, judge says~ The Advocate
A home for The Music Box, the musical architecture village opens its permanent space in Bywater ~Gambit
A home for The Music Box, the musical architecture village opens its permanent space in Bywater ~Gambit

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