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Another Sunday, another instance of President-elect Donald Trump using Twitter to wade into a political minefield. His target: Campaign adversary Hillary Clinton. Although the defeated Democratic candidate has yet to weigh in personally on the Jill Stein-led move to recount voting results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Marc Elias, the general counsel for Clinton's 2016 campaign, signal
A Japanese city has figured out how to create a place that will calm your senses, while driving your heartbeat through the roof. The mayor of Beppu, a city known for its hot springs, issued a challenge on social media last week: If this YouTube video hits a million views, he'll build a "spamusement park" in the city. SEE ALSO: 12 remote places to unplug from this suffocating election campaign Tha
Almost a century ago, 15 people were killed in Boston by a deadly and destructive tidal wave of syrup. It had been a cold January day in the Massachus...
Anxious to have his life back, Donald Trump donates $2 million to Jill Stein's recount efforts. pic.twitter.com/vkWLqIrP1r — Charlie Berens (@CharlieBerens) November 23, 2016 * * * 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 .
Via: Deutsche Welle: In the end, there were hardly any noticeable differences between the two groups of mice that were fed a normal diet. But among the groups that received a high-fat diet, the mice that drank the sweetener solution became considerably heavier than those who drank plain water. However, the blood sugar level was […]
Police State Closure of DAPL Protest Camp Announced by Stephen Lendman Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members and supporters face forced eviction from their Oceti Sakowin protest encampment site, protecting sacred ancestral land, water and wildlife habitat from destructive DAPL construction. According to theindigenouspeoples.com, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced closure of long ago stolen Nati
Experts say president-elect does not understand the law and must sell businesses to avoid electoral college disaster. He seems loath to do so Constitutional lawyers and White House ethics counsellors from Democratic and Republican administrations have warned Donald Trump his presidency might be blocked by the electoral college if he does not give up ownership of at least some of his business empi
No genre is as renowned for strewing the debris of trash culture across the cinematic landscape as the Disaster Movie. Virtually bereft of critically-acclaimed masterpieces and instead characterized by visceral (albeit empty) spectacles of annihilation, the genre provides audiences with an embarrassment of riches in the "So bad, it's good" department. Though often associated with the 1970s, the D
State broadcaster Channel 2M demonstrates how to cover up bruises with makeup and ‘carry on with your daily life’ Women in Morocco have reacted in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence. The segment in the daily programme Sabahiyat, on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup artist demonstrating how to mask marks o
Here is Question One on this year’s Constitutional Law exam. The “electoral college” is a terrible idea that has gone wrong repeatedly and now bids fair to destroy the Republic. a wise creation of all-wise “Founding Fathers” who foresaw precisely this moment and set up the “college” to protect the People from themselves. Both of the above, even though that makes no sense at all. WTF? How did we g
A two-day memorial and a period of “Duelo Nacional,” or national mourning, will offer Cubans a chance to pay their respects to the longtime leader.
Fijian ants have been farming plants for three million years, new research from the University of Munich suggests. The ants rely on these plants to provide them with shelter.
U.S. trade agency requires products say there is no scientific evidence for effectiveness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
U.S. trade agency requires products say there is no scientific evidence for effectiveness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Who knew that Yoda, Star Wars ’ true master of The Force, would be so damn scared of “rats with wings”? Alas, that’s what we discover in Bad Lip Reading’s full-length Star Wars track, “SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now).” Read more...
Or, someday, use it for your commute. The post Flee Your Family Aboard This Flying Saucer Concept appeared first on WIRED .
Greg Diesel Walck took this image of Jupiter and the Moon from Moyock, North Carolina as a thunderstorm drifted across the horizon on August 5, 2016.
The revelation that Facebook exaggerated its own reach shows there are real flaws in the narrative about what Facebook—and digital advertising—can do. The post Facebook's Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising appeared first on WIRED .
As China’s most populous city, Shanghai is well known for its sprawling urban landscape, bustling streets, and iconic skyline. Yet nestled between the towering skyscrapers, the residents of Shanghai’s historic Shikumen neighborhoods experience a different side of the city. In this captivating short, JT Singh explores the chaotic and vibrant street life in some of the city's most charming neighbor
You never know what the singing superstar's visit will bring. This time she brought an impressive set of… bling! From: TheEllenShow
Ellen sent her executive producer to learn some martial arts moves from the most decorated athlete in tae kwon do history. Ready, set, spar! From: TheEllenShow
Full screen with good speakers or headphone for best experience. A 4K version is available. Hand : " The terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting of the wrist, palm, four fingers, and an opposable thumb ". My purpose was to not cover the entire subject of hands. I think that the possibilities are way too wide. I was motsly interested o
A short film about a Dutch woman who secretly helps refugees in the southwest of Turkey, until she is confronted with the son she abandoned years before. Precursor to the feature film FOREIGNERS, currently in development, in production 2017-18. starring Carine Crutzen, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Hazal Selçuk, Reha Soysal, Aali Erguvanli, and Irmak Okcebe written and directed by Jordi Wijnal
Lofoten, Norway, has a mountainous landscape that may make you wonder if it's real or just a Hollywood movie set. This stunning landscape attracted filmmaker Michael Fletcher to film it by drone throughout midnattssol, or midnight sun, a natural phenomenon that occurs for several weeks during the summer in which the sun appears to never go below the horizon. During this time, the Earth's axis ang
So reddit has banned the pizzagate subreddit...but the investigation continues. A pizzagate forum has sprung up on voat.co and awareness of the scandal is spreading on YouTube, Twitter and other social media outlets. And now The Corbett Report community can collate information on the pizzagate scandal in this new open source investigation.
Yes, corbettreport.com has made this new, mysterious, anonymously-authored "propaganda list" of websites to watch out for in the era of #FakeNews and Russians under every rock. And yes, the list is as ridiculous as that sounds. Join me today as I look into the latest pathetic attempt by a flailing establishment to bolster their discredited mouthpiece media organs and counter the ascendant alterna
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-24%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on New World Next Week: As the MSM screams "Fake News!" they fail to realize that 4 fingers are pointing back at themselves. Meanwhile, free humanity is getting ready to purge the real liars with #UnfollowFriday.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-22%20Nomi%20Prins.mp3"][/audio] Today James talks to Nomi Prins, author of books like All The Presidents Bankers, about her recent article "The Central Bank Power Shift from West to East, Game of Thrones Style." We talk about the changing economic and monetary landscape and how the locus of central bank power is shifting to the East, with playe
This week on New World Next Week: As the MSM screams "Fake News!" they fail to realize that 4 fingers are pointing back at themselves. Meanwhile, free humanity is getting ready to purge the real liars with #UnfollowFriday.
This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order, James is joined by Prof CJ of the Dangerous History podcast to explore James Ellroy’s “American Tabloid.” What do you get when you have a novel with fictional FBI/CIA/Mafia/Anti-Castro Cuban stooges embroiled in a years-long mess that ends up with the assassination of the president? A more plausible scenario than 99% of the documentaries and
Researchers say warmer air and sea surface could lead to record lows of sea ice at north pole next year
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
Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental, two new magnolias were waiting for a conservationist turned photographer and a botanist to find them
First lions, tigers, and bears transferred to region’s largest wildlife sanctuary in Jordan

New in The Rules of Exposition

If you look up loan and lend you'll find some gibberish about how those words are interchangeable now, but once upon a time they were not. You can lend me money or loan me money, these days it's all the same. I need a word for the act of lending, and a different word for the thing itself, the loan. Everybody knows what a "loan" is: I don't think anyone would call it a "lend". We're not that far d

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I'm feeling rattled by Facebook, no longer sure if there's any point in sharing serious things there. It was the Trump election that did me in - things just got too weird. But then I see a story like this and I want to share it with people, because it's so damn interesting, so what can I do? When I want to be able to find something that I think is important enough that I'll probably want to track
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

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"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

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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
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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* 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’
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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 )
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
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
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
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
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
November 17, 2016 | : by Roberto Rodriguez By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced. Yet no one is feeling this hangover more so than the undocumented community. This election represents both the rise of fascism, and, literally, an existential threat to students and their families nationwide, includin
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

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.
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
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
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.

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