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Bill Murray can't believe it either
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together — mass hysteria! Bill Murray translation: Cubs win! Cubs win — Cubs win! Though Game 7 of this most improbable World Series in memory concluded in Cleveland, you bet your proton packs that Murray — as much a Cubs fan as he is a Ghostbuster — was there in the stands Wednesday night. SEE ALSO: Watch Bill Murray sing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' at Wor
UK High Court decided that the people can’t vote for a clear outcome, they have to vote for other people to vote for them.
The UK High court decides Parliament knows the will of the people more than the people do. A British court just prevented the prime minister from Brexiting. — Vox “The most fundamental rule of the UK constitution is that Parliament is sovereign,” the court writes in a summary document explaining the ruling. Naive me. I thought the people were sovereign? Isn’t the Parliament meant to serve the peo
Um, why am I being targeted with Australian anti-refugee ads on Facebook?
Those "No Way: You will not make Australia home," campaign ads from the country's government have made it to Facebook, and they're targeting...Australians. Earlier in the week, the government proposed a lifetime ban on refugees who arrive by boat. Now, some Australians are being served the same anti-immigration campaign as people in other parts of the world are seeing. Including myself. SEE ALSO:
'Lid Off Pandora's Box': Will Rightwing Extremists Disrupt Election Day?: 'BradCast' 11/3/2016
On today's BradCast : Rightwing extremist groups are reportedly plotting to wreak potential havoc on Election Day, as Donald Trump's candidacy has helped to mainstream previously fringe organizations. [ Audio link to show is posted below. ] Despite Trump's repeated claims that millions of 'dead people' are voting, the evidence --- reported many years ago by The BRAD BLOG and more recently even by
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Should Men Be Able to Opt Out of Fatherhood?
Image by Sarah MacReading Matt Dubay and Lauren Wells had broken up by the time she discovered she was pregnant. The two had only dated for a few months and had polar opposite views on parenthood: Wells wanted to keep the child; Dubay didn't want to become a father. When the state of Michigan pressed him to pay child support, he refused. The resulting legal battle became one of the most high-prof
'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say
Highly unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton intensified after James Comey’s decision not to recommend an indictment over her use of a private email server Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election. Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were
Sinosphere: An 80-Year-Old Model Reshapes China’s Views on Aging
Wang Deshun, known as China’s hottest grandpa, is being venerated in the country as an example of how to grow old without fading away.
Third-party voters are “trading votes” with Clinton voters to defeat Trump
A month ago, Amit Kumar sat in his office, nervously watching the Trump/Clinton polls intersect. As a Clinton supporter in deeply blue state, the Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur knew his vote wouldn’t do much to affect the outcome. He also knew that elsewhere in the country — particularly in the crucially important swing states — large numbers of third-party votes were tightening the race. Kuma
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Physicists demonstrate existence of new subatomic structure
Iowa State University researchers have helped demonstrate the existence of a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist.
GRAPES-3 indicates a crack in Earth's magnetic shield
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth's magnetic shield. The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona struck Earth at a very high speed causing massive compression of the Earth's magnetosphere and triggering a severe geomagnetic storm.
Fuel from sewage is the future -- and it's closer than you think
It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research. The technology, hydrothermal liquefaction, mimics the geological conditions Earth uses to create crude oil, using high pressure and temperature to achieve in minutes something that takes Mother Nature millions of years.
The New Wonder Woman Trailer Shows Diana In All Her Mythical Glory
The latest glimpse of the upcoming Wonder Woman movie takes us back in time, to show how an Amazon princess becomes a hero capable of inspiring the whole world. Read more...
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Maroon 5 Performs 'Don't Wanna Know'!
The band hit Ellen's stage to perform their new hit song on TV for the first time! From: TheEllenShow
Ellen and Adam Levine's Bathroom Scares
The Maroon 5 frontman joined Ellen to scare some unsuspecting audience members before the show! From: TheEllenShow
Unsatisfying
During the summer of 2016, We created and directed a video about unsatisfying situations: the frustrating, annoying, disappointing little things of everyday life, that are so painful to live or even to watch. We quickly realized that there are a lot of other situations that would be fun to see animated, so we decided to run an animation challenge around this idea. Join the Unsatisfying Challenge
The Dark Island
This film was shot over 11 nights in March on La Palma, Canary Islands. La Palma is often called ‘Europes’ Hawaii’ as it has all the ingredients for a perfect night sky cocktail; altitude, dry air and a lack of light pollution. These elements when combined make for a stunning night sky. Because of it’s clean air and clear skies many of the worlds top observatories have facilities on top of the is
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Interview 1223 – Parsing the Comey Letter with Michel Chossudovsky
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-10-31%20Michel%20Chossudovsky.mp3"][/audio] FBI Director James Comey threw the 2016 presidential (s)election into (yet more) chaos by delivering an October surprise: the re-opening of the Clinton email investigation. Are the string-pullers abandoning Hillary? Or would they prefer a lame-duck president to be the face of the declining American empir
You Are Being Programmed to Hate
With the world spinning into hatred and violence as the two most hated (s)election candidates of all time tell us to hate one another, one might almost think there is a coordinated effort to drum up outrage. And one would be right!
Anthrax: The Forgotten Iraq War Lie
Although it is difficult to remember at this point, the anthrax scare of late 2001 was widely seen as a follow-up to the 9/11 attacks, and a sign of things to come at the dawn of the so-called War on Terror. It did not take long, however, for the neocons in the Bush administration to start insinuating that the anthrax scare was tied to their two favourite boogeymen: Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin L
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Army Corp of Engineers Ordered Police to Arrest Standing Rock Water Protectors
Police deployed pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets in 'standoff with protestors'
White-Haired Goldenrods Are Thriving Again in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
Decades-long conversation effort struck the right balance between visitor use and habitat protection
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
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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
Easy to fix
Reading How high debt leads to income inequality by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi. I thought I'd be interested in the economics. Instead I focus on this: Money can’t make up for the loss of one’s home, but it ensures that a family can begin rebuilding their lives during such a desperate time. "A family" is singular. "Their lives" is plural. How can I assume that Mian and Sufi's economic logic is sound w
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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
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‘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
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Chris Hedges Endorses Jill Stein
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
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
The King Is Dead But Arnold Palmer Legend Lives On
Arnold Palmer with ever present cigarette tossing ball to his caddy on practice tee. Arnold Palmer was my hero in the 1960's for his swashbuckling style of play and willingness to take risks on the golf course endeared him to millions, including myself, who saw him as the king of the links and a man of the people. His passing on at 87 years old leaves golf with an unfillable void for he brought a
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Pirates come 3rd in Iceland Election
(via Iceland Monitor )
On Cognitive Bias
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 )
Infogalactic, a fork of Wikipedia
Alt-right blogger Vox Day has launched Infogalactic , a fork of Wikipedia , in order to correct what he sees as the left-wing bias of Wikipedia. This is something I take an interest in because some time ago I launched my own fork of Wikipedia, Includipedia (which failed due to inadequate execution). Will Infogalactic succeed? If it confines itself to promoting a more right-wing point of view to W
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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
Albert Woodfox & Robert King's European Freedom Tour in November
Announcing Albert Woodfox & Robert King's European Freedom Tour Events - November 2016 The International Angola 3 Coalition is delighted to announce the first European visit from Albert Woodfox in November 2016. Albert Woodfox (the last remaining member of the Angola 3 to be freed from prison in Louisiana, USA in February this year after 43 years in solitary confinement) and Robert King (released
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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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Cherchez la Verite 4 unread articles  //  actions

You won't learn this from the so-called mainstream media. "Russia has a sufficient nuclear arsenal capable of inflicting a deadly blow on the United States. Washington recognizes this as well." "the State Department’s statement was immediately followed by the Pentagon's announcement that it is ready to launch a preventative nuclear strike on Russia." Thank goodness that Putin does not want a war with the US. But "we don’t know what choice Washington will make."
Following the president of the Russian Federation’s decree on suspending Russia’s compliance with agreements with the US on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium and the submission of the corresponding bill to the State Duma, disputes have begun in the media on whether this is connected to the rupture of the Syria deal. The second stumbling block is a question: Why is Russia, having known that
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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
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
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
Electoral Reform for Dummies - that would be us.
Well that was then. Today some sixteen months later, having attended exactly zero electoral reform committee road meetings or community-based townhalls these past few weeks, our legacy media is jointly suggesting Trudeau throw in the towel. Susan Delacourt : Time for Trudeau to cut his losses on electoral reform "Mayrand just gave the Liberals a face-saving excuse. They should take it." Ms Delaco
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Ruckus Raising Time. Again.
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
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
The Uberization of Charitable Giving
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
Wham! Bam!
As You Were, Troops
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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
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
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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.
Lifers
With the weather getting colder, I knew that this would likely be my last chance to do any serious birding, at least for places out of town. So I found myself anxiously watching the weather forecast in the days prior to my trip down to Calgary this past Sunday. Things didn't look promising as it was cool and overcast in Edmonton and the downright wet and dreary by the time I reached Red Deer. For
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Star Citizen - so what is this - game I'm flying?
STAR CITIZEN , is it a singleplayer with an optional sandbox, or is it a sandbox with scripted missions? You'all have read my first and most recent Star Citizen post entitled DOORS where I went into gruesome detail about how to salvage some multiplayer usability from the product SC's sold itself as. But what really is it? This game? What is its user-end experience? SC's universe is being rendered
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
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
John Wick - Keannu Reaves - the Roman episode
I don't care what anyone says about the John Wick films. I really enjoyed the first one, and now there's a second one on the way. This one's set in Rome.
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White Privileged Bernie Supporters Need to Hold their Noses and Vote for Clinton
I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton's, but I am going to vote for her anyway. I believe the Bill Clinton White House destroyed the liberal left in the United States. The first Clinton administration acted like a wolf in sheep's clothing, gutting social infrastructure, advancing the prison industrial complex to an unprecedented degree and masterminding the destructive global trade deals (WTO and NAF
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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
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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
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Judicial Officers show presumptively have their costs of a discipline hearing regardless of result
Massiah v Justices of the Peace Review Council, 2016 ONSC 6191: [ 49 ] In my view, the 2012 Panel started from a flawed premise, that is, that where there has been a finding of judicial misconduct, the presumption should be that compensation will not be made. Specifically, the 2012 Panel said: … it is only in exceptional circumstances that the public purse should bear the legal costs of a judicia
The Elks Want to Throw Me Out – What Are My Rights?
One of the most obscure areas of law is "club law". This deals with the rights of members of clubs to have fair hearings when dealing with clubs they belong to. Usually in Canada the clubs involved are sporting clubs but the area of law includes pretty well all voluntary organizations. So if my Freemason Lodge decides to expel me I have certain rights to a "fair" hearing. At the outset, while thes
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
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