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President-elect Donald J. Trump's ongoing one-sided feud with a weekly
sketch comedy series took on a new wrinkle Sunday morning. The incoming
United States president bemoaned Saturday Night Live 's "one-sided,
biased" (presumably political) leanings in a Sunday tweet. He capped off
the blast with a question: "Equal time for us?" SEE ALSO: Trump’s
America will also be a new golden age of activism
Just days after defending Donald Trump , Kanye West called out Beyoncé
and Jay Z on stage before ending his show early in Sacramento. West went
on a Kanye West-style rant on Saturday evening after showing up to a
concert 90 minutes late. Three songs into his performance, West stopped
the show and went on a rant where he claims Beyoncé hurt him. SEE ALSO:
Kanye West basically outlined his 2020 pre
A
faulty fire suppression system managed to submerge a large area under a
sea of white foam on Friday. Locals were left perplexed as the thick
foam sp...
Via:
CBC News: The agricultural scientist, then at Dalhousie University,
helped test Dorgan’s seaweed mix, and discovered it reduced the methane
in the cows’ burps and farts by about 20 per cent. Kinley knew he was on
to something, so he did further testing with 30 to 40 other seaweeds.
That led him to a […]
* * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs , usually on
topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on
Twitter @PDiddie .
Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists by
Stephen Lendman On Sunday, pro-Western UN envoy for Syria Staffan de
Mistura made Damascus an offer it refused - dividing Aleppo, letting
US-supported terrorists called “moderates” control eastern areas. Syrian
Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem slapped him down diplomatically,
rejecting his outrageous proposal, saying: “We he
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Under
pressure to uphold liberal values in a climate of rising populism,
Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for re-election next year.
‘These
aren’t the times for self-loathing liberals to seek to understand the
leaders of the global far right, or their supporters’ The danger in
meeting politicians is that they seem all right and then, as a comedian,
it is much harder to summon up the manufactured anger required to
despise them for personal commercial gain. I have a mortgage. I can’t
afford to find myself thinking things like “Yo
My classroom becomes a totalitarian state every school year toward the
end of October. In preparation for teaching 1984 to seniors, I announce
the launch of a new program aimed at combating senioritis, a real
disease with symptoms that include frequent unexplained absences,
indifferent reading, and shoddy work. I tell each class that another
class is largely to blame for the problem and require,
The white nationalist group held a conference in D.C. this weekend
after Trump's unlikely victory for president. Now, the controversial
believers say they can be "an intellectual vanguard" for Trump.
She was 19 when they met on the set of Star Wars – and began a
three-month affair. Fisher comes clean about the most ‘obsessive,
confused’ time of her life • Scroll down for an exclusive extract from
Fisher’s memoir Perhaps the most surprising thing is that it has taken
Carrie Fisher so long to fess up. The famously candid actor and
memoirist has been asked numerous times whether there was a real
Donald Trump's chief strategist and ex-Breitbart news executive Steve
Bannon has the power to shape Mr. Trump's legacy. How does he see the
real estate mogul impacting America?
New in science
An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics
experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure
mathematics. The post Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle
Collisions appeared first on WIRED .
The
most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday
night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and
save lives.
Ever wonder why CNN seems to constantly repeat itself with its coverage
of the 2016 election and the future president of the United States?
Turns out, it’s because they’re on a loop. Let’s hope the Man in Black
doesn’t show up. Read more...
For
decades, political scientist Gene Sharp has promoted nonviolent
strategies for countering oppression -- Read more on
ScientificAmerican.com
For
decades, political scientist Gene Sharp has promoted nonviolent
strategies for countering oppression -- Read more on
ScientificAmerican.com
Physicians are hired and fired by the team, not the athletes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Full CGI Music Video for KEØMA. Directed and animated by Dirk Rauscher
dirkrauscher.de After performing some live visuals for the Band KEØMA in
September 2016, they commissioned me to produce a simple Video for the
Track „Gone“. Being inspired by the Song and without limitations, I
picked up some personal style frames and woke them up, literally. In
this way, the result is not only a music video
Baratunde Thurston investigates the disproportionate number of arrests
of black residents for non-violent offenses in Gretna, Louisiana, and
how the city racks up revenue from court fines and fees 16 times the
national median. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More
Explorer: http://bit.ly/MoreExplorer ➡ EXPLORER AIRS MONDAYS 10/9c About
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Few Westerners have spent as much time in North Korea as National
Geographic photographer David Guttenfelder, and no Western photographer
has had better access to one of the world's most secretive countries.
Working for the Associated Press in Pyongyang, North Korea, Guttenfelder
has made more than 40 trips to the country over the years, documenting
the lives of North Koreans and revealing candid
2016, 8.23 min, 16.9, 1080p24, Stereo Web Preview Only sound: Byron
Scullin viola: Erkki Veltheim This file is for preview purposes only and
is not to be exhibited or distributed in any form without the written
permission of the artist or representing gallery. Anna Schwartz Gallery,
Melbourne; Starkwhite, Auckland; FuturePerfect, Singapore. © Daniel
Crooks 2016. All rights reserved. Cast: Daniel
When Ellen heard about the amazing teachers and students of the Center
for Advanced Learning (CAL) and how they continue to defy the odds with
positivity, inspiration and success, she knew she had to do something
special! From: TheEllenShow
Google’s Daydream View VR headset has a unique look and feel, but it
took a lot of work to get there. Subscribe: https://goo.gl/G5RXGs We go
to Mountain View for a behind-the-scenes look at its development. Check
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New in The Corbett Report
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In this week’s edition of Newsbud’s Roundtable Spiro Skouras is Joined
by Newsbud Founder Sibel Edmonds, Newsbud Sr. Producer Kurt Nimmo and
James Corbett of Corbett Report to discuss potential candidates of the
Trump Cabinet. We also discuss the indoctrination process of the youth
in public schools and S
You'll no doubt remember the quotes from that 1998 60 Minutes piece on
Soros from Episode 113 of The Corbett Report podcast. Well guess what?
That clip actually emerged online this week. Let me walk you through a
few of the highlights.
So you say you want a revolution? Well don't worry, it's already
happening and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the political game
that the ruling oligarchs entice you to play once every four years. As
the radical decentralization transforms the economy and finance and
manufacturing and the media itself, the only question is whether or not
you're taking part in it. Yes, the revolution is happ
Do
you have the sinking feeling that democracy is not what it's cracked up
to be? Do you insist that Trump is #NotMyPresident? Well don't despair,
get active. Take the #ClintonPledge, and pass it along to your friends.
It may not be as scary as you think.
Do you have the sinking feeling that Trump may start backing off his
promises now that he's in power. Is there the niggling doubt that the
banksters, criminals and party insiders he's surrounding himself with
may not follow through on that draining of the swamp? Never fear! You
can show you're a person of integrity by taking the #TrumpPledge.
New in The EnvironmentaList
Deep
in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental, two new magnolias were waiting for a
conservationist turned photographer and a botanist to find them
Birds, plants, and groundwater continue to benefit from pilot effort to revive the Colorado River delta, says report
As rising seas swallow islands, turn farmlands fallow, everyday life becomes a challenge
Keeping climate change in check requires a halt to new oil and gas leasing
Decades-long conversation effort struck the right balance between visitor use and habitat protection
Ray of Hope Prize winners mimic Andean nurse plant to help restore depleted soils
New in The Rules of Exposition
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
New in A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
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
New in Activist Teacher
"International
Criminal Court Prosecutor's Report 14 Nov. 2016 p. 32 “…Additionally,
the Office engaged with the law faculty at Hebrew University….” LOL! On
Land Stolen from the Palestinians in violation of the Laws of War and
thus a War Crime. Meanwhile the ICC refused to go to Gaza to investigate
the situation there after Israel’s slaughter of over 2000+ Palestinians
in Gaza. So the War
This
article was first publishe on Dissident Voice. By Denis G. Rancourt,
PhD Summary: I briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent
statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the
modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both:
(1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the
societal dominance hierarchy, and (2)
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
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 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
New in Allen L Roland's Weblog
Make no mistake about my words, America is fast approaching a spiritual
death with the election of Donald Trump and no one describes the causes
and proportions of this eminent spiritual blackout better than teacher
and philosopher, Cornel West. President Obama has, in essence, put an
African face on American neoliberal Imperialism and Cornel describes our
spiritual death throes with a knowing can
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
President-elect Donald Trump with attitude I originally posted this
column in May, 2016 and posited that America had achieved the pinnacle
of H.L.Mencken’s famous quote about the eventual election of a moron
with the disputed election of George W Bush but that was just a rung
above the growing possibility of a President Trump. Donald Trump
represents the last desperate hope of an American elector
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
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
The politics of fear is ruling this Presidential election and it's time
for our conscience and self-respect to take over and erode fear in the
process. There is no better reminder in this process than Chris Hedges
whose activist voice to power echoes those of Amy Goodman and others,
including myself, who know that this is our moment in 2016 and our
conscience and self-respect, not our fears, must
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New in Amused Cynicism
* 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.
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’
(via Iceland Monitor )
People generally don’t think they are biased, and the less biased
someone thinks they are the more biased they probably are. (via AI
Safety )
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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
New in BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com
By MARC McDONALD At long last, the ugly, bitter 2016 presidential
election campaign is over. And we'd like to extend our congratulations
to Hillary Clinton, the winner of the election. After a hard-fought
campaign, she prevailed over Donald Trump, getting nearly 400,000 more
votes than her challenger. The American people have spoken.
Unfortunately, the Electoral College has also spoken. And this
New in Big Dan's Big Blog
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
A Sucker's Rally Like No Other By David Stockman. Posted On Friday,
November 11th, 2016 This week has seen a political earthquake followed
by a financial eruption. But don't be fooled. The Dow's 500 point surge
amounts to a Sucker's Rally like no other; it was just a case of raging
robo-machines determined to tag an all-time high on the charts After
all, what happened Tuesday night is that for al
Chop, Chop, Choppin' In Harm's Way By David Stockman. Posted On
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 The stock market has been chopping
sideways for the last 100 days, but it's not evidence of a pause that
refreshes. What is actually happening is that the smart money is getting
out of dodge---even as the clueless day traders and headline-stalking
algos keep the bubble inflated on purely speculative fume
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/28/2016 at 00:09:51 Russia Calls the War Party's
Bluff By Pepe Escobar opednews.com Headlined to H2 10/28/16
Snowden/Obama -- Double Focus Prism Cold War 2.0 has reached
unprecedented hysterical levels. And yet a hot war is not about to break
out -- before or after the November 8 US presidential election. From
the Clinton (cash) machine -- supported by a neocon/neoliberalcon th
New in Creekside
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
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
New in DAMMIT JANET!
There
are many whackadoodles among the fetus fetishist set, but Frank Pavone
of Priests for Life is one of the whackier. He was one of the vultures
hanging around not-quite-dead Terri Shiavo and practically did a jig
when Dr. Tiller was assassinated. He's been in trouble with his titular
bosses, the Catlick Church, for among other things, financial
improprieties. But just before The Tragedy, he ou
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
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
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,
Up
here in smug Canada -- and getting smugger by the minute as the US
election approaches -- it's not often that the US has us beaten on any
aspect of abortion care. Well, they've got us all beat to hell on
medical abortion . Although many limitations remain, innovative
dispensing efforts in some states, restricted access to surgical
abortions in others and greater awareness boosted medication abo
Like most "disruptive" new ideas, at first the "100 Who Care" movement
-- if it can be called that -- seems marvellously simple. There's a good
cause in your community. It needs a dose of cash. Call a few friends,
who call a few friends, you get the idea. All get together and each
write a cheque directly to the worthy cause and BAM! Done. That's what a
woman named Karen Dunigan did . The first 10
New in Dr Cintli
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
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
Historical Appreciation: Reflecting on the 2016 Presidential Election
November 11, 2016 | : by Roberto Rodriguez On election night, I received
hundreds of messages from friends and colleagues from throughout the
country. Most seemed to be in utter disbelief. When I got to campus in
the morning, I went into the student lounge where I came upon students
who were crying. All day, everyone kept askin
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
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
New in Fort McMurray Adventures
If I could only get to one concert this season it would have to be this
past Saturday evening's concert with the Calgary Philharmonic.
Featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4 and the Mozart Requiem, I truly
would have walked to Calgary if I had to. Fortunately, Greyhound took me
instead. I spent a couple of nights in the city so that I would be
well-rested and focused. I also used mu time to pick
By the time I reached Prince's Island Park, the last place I wanted to
get to before my weekend concert, the light was really starting to fade
on me. Again, I didn't see anything new but it gave me a chance to have
some camera fun and grab a few close ups. I had no shortage of willing
subjects.
After visiting the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary I headed to an urban park
closer to the downtown. I didn't expect to see much in terms of birds
(and I didn't) but it gave me an opportunity to play around with my
camera and see a bit of wildlife I don't usually see close up. There
actually IS a common merganser swimming around out there. Friendly
neighbourhood squirrel. These little guys were all over
After a series of delays, many of which brought on by the May fire, I
was finally able to get down to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary
this past weekend. This place had long been on my radar. and while I
doubted I would see anything new for my year list at least I got there,
which was just fine with me. While it was quite overcast, it didn't rain
and the temperature was a balmy 12C so I wa
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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