Tuesday, July 04, 2017

4 July - My Feedly! 1 of 2

I'm going a bit grr! as I bought a Pelican kayak a few weeks ago - and just now spotted Hobie's Mirage Eclipse on Mashable. Oh, well. I'm too heavy regardless.

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Donald Trump talked about space and Buzz Aldrin's face says it all
Donald Trump's bizarre ceremony to bring back the National Space Council had a lot of people wondering what the president's baffling remarks about the cosmos really meant (one of them is J.K. Rowling ). SEE ALSO: Chrissy Teigen has some really important Twitter advice for Donald Trump But nobody was more purely and totally mystified than Buzz "second man on the moon" Aldrin. After Vice President
Irish teens sing 'Despacito' in Gaelic and they're better than Bieber
It takes a decent amount of nerve and courage to take on the song of the summer. But, one group of Irish teenagers absolutely crushed their rendition of "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber. Students at Irish language summer school Coláiste Lurgan in County Galway, Ireland, performed a version of "Despacito" in Gaelic. And they absolutely nailed it. The students didn't j
Coal Boom: 1600 new plants in 62 countries around the world – increasing 43%
“End-Coal” Global Coal Tracker does a magnificent job of showing how essential coal is around the world, and which countries are pathetically backwards in developing new coal plants. It’s probably not what the “CoalSwarm” team was hoping to achieve, but this map is a real asset to those of us who want to show how tiny Australia’s coal fired assets are compared to the rest of the world. The site i
The Non Compos Mentis Nimcompoop: 'BradCast' 7/3/2017
On today's BradCast , guest hosted by yours truly, Angie Coiro of In Deep Radio, we talk protests from a micro and macro view. Jan McKim adds to her history of San Francisco Bay Area protest attendance with this past weekend's impeachment march. We'll hear her from-the-ground report. Those marches will be followed up with sit-ins on Thursday telling Congress exactly how thrilled Americans are at
Pop Quiz: To get cheaper electricity should we build a/ new coal plant, or b/ pay $3b in renewable subsidies?
Tricky maths in Australia. Should we save $800 million dollars and get stable cheap modern electric power or give that money to renewables giants to help them compete with our fifty year old coal fleet and get us 0.0001% better weather in 2100*? Hmm. What to do?! A new HELE Coal plant (also known as an Ultra Super Critical — USC– coal generator) would cost $2.2 billion. We currently pay $3b a yea
1,800 Tons of Radioactive Waste Has an Ocean View and Nowhere to Go
Via: Los Angeles Times: The massive, 150-ton turbines have stopped spinning. The mile-long cooling pipes that extend into the Pacific will likely become undersea relics. High voltage that once energized the homes of more than a million Californians is down to zero. But the San Onofre nuclear power plant will loom for a long time […]

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Donald Trump did more than 'wrestle' CNN in a video. He attacked democracy | Robert Reich
Will news organizations and professionals be intimidated by the president? Probably not, at least not at this point – but we may be on a slippery path On Sunday morning, Donald Trump seemed to promote violence against CNN. He tweeted an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his opponent. In it, Trump is shown slamming t
White House says Donald Trump will not make snap visit to UK
US president will not travel to UK in next two weeks, spokesperson says, after speculation led to threat of protests Donald Trump will not be making a surprise visit to his Scottish golf course in the next two weeks, the White House has said, as the threat of short-notice protests mounted in Britain. A spokeswoman for the US president said on Monday that no trip was imminent, amid mounting specul
America, the diminished
What Trump has wrought. At the Washington Examiner, Byron York argues that those who fight Donald Trump on Donald Trump’s terms end up diminished. Trump sprays insults with abandon, mocking everything from his critics’ intelligence to their popularity to their ethics to their plastic surgery, but those who engage with the president of the United States on his own level make themselves look smalle
Florida law allows any parent to challenge how evolution, climate change are taught in schools
Gov. Rick Scott (Credit: AP/Chris O'meara) Less than a week after satellite temperature data was revised and the full extent of global warming became even clearer, Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott signed into law a bill that will make it easier for any Florida resident to object to science-based education in the classroom. The statute, which went into effect on July 1, forces school board
Chris Christie Closed New Jersey's State Beaches — And Then Went To The Beach
A government shutdown has shuttered state parks and beaches but photos showed the governor and his family enjoying the empty shoreline. "Run for governor, and you can have a residence there," he says. (Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Ancient virus DNA gives stem cells the power to transform
A virus that invaded the genomes of humanity's ancestors millions of years ago now plays a critical role in the embryonic stem cells from which all cells in the human body derive, new research shows. The discovery sheds light on the role viruses play in human evolution and could help scientists better understand how to use stem cells in advanced therapies or even how to convert normal cells into s

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Record-breaking 45-qubit quantum computing simulation run at NERSC
When two researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) announced in April that they had successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit, the science community took notice: it was the largest ever simulation of a quantum computer, and another step closer to simulating "quantum supremacy"—the point at which quantum computers become more powerful than ordinary computers.
Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start
Much of President Trump’s policy agenda is mired in delay, but Scott Pruitt has already achieved a major regulatory rollback.
New studies of ancient concrete could teach us to do as the Romans did
Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis Historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater waves, become "a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger."
Happy Aphelion! Earth Is Farthest from the Sun Today
The moment of greatest separation, known as aphelion, comes at 4:11 p.m. EDT (2011 GMT) today (July 3), when Earth and the sun will be 94,505,901 miles (152,092,505 kilometers) apart.
Court Blocks E.P.A. Effort to Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule
The ruling, on a regulation to restrict emissions from new oil and gas wells, signaled that President Trump’s plans to simply delay environmental actions are likely to face an uphill battle.
Monster Black Holes Spotted Orbiting Each Other for 1st Time Ever
For the first time ever, scientists have directly spotted a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other, a new study suggests.

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The Glass Frog: Ultimate Ninja Dad | Animal 24
A male glass frog is the lone protector of his eggs 24/7 until they hatch. Sometimes this means protecting them from their worst enemy. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ ANIMAL 24 AIRS SATURDAY JULY 8 at 10/9c. About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, j
Nick the Bachelor and ‘DWTS’ Partner Peta Perform!
“The Bachelor” himself Nick Viall and his “Dancing with the Stars” partner put on their dancing shoes for a live performance! From: TheEllenShow
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
Effervescing Elephant from the album "Barrett" by Syd Barrett, released in November 1970. Credits: Direction / Animation : Yoann Hervo Compositing : Hugo Moreno Additional Animation : Lucie Arnissolle, Remy Clarke, Hanne Galvez, Nathan Harbonn, Mathilde Loubes Sound design: Fabien Carouge Co-production: Eddy Cast: Yoann Hervo Tags: 1970 , syd barrett , music video , 16mm , effervescing elephant ,
Young Hippo Tries to Play With Crocodile | National Geographic
Video captured a playful young hippo relentlessly pursuing a crocodile around a watering hole in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you clo
Ellen’s Cat Song
Ellen reached out to some of the most talented names in music to help come up with a jingle for a cat video she found. From: TheEllenShow
Supernaive - Opal Waltz (2017)
An inflatable portrait of adolescence. __ Listen to Supernaive's Debut EP "Dazed & Confused" shlo-music.lnk.to/dazedandconfused An independent film by Vincent Tsui vincent-tsui.com/ Colorscript: Débora Cheyenne Cruchon Additional animation: Valentin Stoll Éva Lusbaronian Johan Ravit Pierre Pinon Hugues Opter Caroline Cherrier Hugo De Faucompret Arnaud Tribout Special thanks: Mavra Peponis Lucas M

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Why Climate Change Belongs in the Health Care Debate
We know climate change is affecting the environment, but it’s also threatening people’s health
A Million Plastic Bottles Are Bought Around the World Every Minute
World's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change,' say campaigners
DOJ Withdraws Plan for Kentucky Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site
Proposed prison would have been terrible for prisoner health and local wildlife, say advocates
Renewable Energy Projects Are Uplifting Maasai Women
Solar panel and clean cookstove programs are reducing emissions, electrifying remote parts of Kenya and Tanzania
Setting Free the Urban Tomato
Swiss project has city dwellers enthusiastically farming rare vegetable varieties while producing free seeds for all
Scientists Yet to Pinpoint Specific Cause of Shark Die-Off in SF Bay
Strandings can be stopped if efforts are made to improve Bay water quality and marine habitat, says conservationist

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NATO and Anti-NATO: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
If you want to oppose the NATO warmongers, you have to back whoever is opposing them and oppose whoever is backing them? Right?...But what does that look like in practice? And do we run the risk of allowing the globalists to marginalize entire peoples' points of view by seeming to support them? Wrap your head around these and other puzzling conundrums on today's (bumpy) Thought for the Day.
White House Prepares Another Chemical Weapon False Flag Attack in Syria
The White House announced on Monday that they are preparing to frame Syrian President Assad for the next chemical weapon attack in Syria, essentially giving the green light to their Al-CIA-da forces to proceed with another false flag event. So who is behind this, what is at stake, and where is the attack likely to take place? Join James for this Thought For The Day as he goes over the latest infor
Episode 319 – Psychographics 101
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode319-lq.mp3"][/audio] What do you get when you combine behavioural science with big data and use the new Frankenstein hybrid to better influence people's thoughts, opinions and desires? Why, psychographics of course! Join James today as he delves into the murky world of billionaire hedge fund owners, creepy thought manipulators and the Trump cam
Psychographics 101
What do you get when you combine behavioural science with big data and use the new Frankenstein hybrid to better influence people's thoughts, opinions and desires? Why, psychographics of course! Join James today as he delves into the murky world of billionaire hedge fund owners, creepy thought manipulators and the Trump campaign.
The Weaponization of Information in the War of Terror
In the wake of London and Manchester, politicians around the world are trying to convince the public that the free flow of information on the internet is a terror threat. In reality, independent online media are exposing the real terrorists: the politicians and their deep state handlers who are funding, arming, aiding and enabling false flag terror. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on GlobalResearch.

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WWF objection prompts review of Mexican tuna fishery's impact on dolphins in the Eastern Pacific
GLAND, Switzerland, 23 June 2017 – The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of an Eastern Pacific tuna fishery has been placed temporarily on hold following strong concerns raised by WWF that impacts of the fishery on depleted dolphin populations in the region have not been fully examined and addressed. In October 2016, WWF filed an objection to an MSC assessment conducted by an indepen
Croatia: Watershed moment for the Great Waterfall and Plitvice Lakes National Park
Zagreb – This week, local communities living in and around Croatia's Plitvice National Park and veterans' associations came together to symbolically halt traffic at a wooden bridge near Plitvice Sela to draw attention to the numerous threats facing Croatia's only UNESCO World Heritage site. Known worldwide for its lakes, Plitvice National Park has long attracted thousands of visitors and interest
WWF stands with victims' families of the devastating forest fire in Portugal
Lisbon, 18 June 2017 – WWF expresses solidarity with the victims' families and the firemen fighting the ongoing forest fire in PedrogĂŁo Grande, Leiria area, in the center of Portugal. WWF is deeply saddened by the numerous human victims. The arid and flammable nature of Mediterranean forests (which include Portugal), climate change, human neglect and, above all, the lack of adequate forest manage
First UN Ocean Conference signals global goal out of reach without major new action
New York, 9 June 2017 – On the concluding day of the first ever United Nations Ocean Conference, WWF calls for unprecedented action to achieve the agreed Ocean sustainable development goal. This comes as member states prepare to endorse a call for action that acknowledges the serious threats to the ocean from overexploitation and climate change, and the need for much greater ambition. John Tanzer
Leaders in U.S. Economy Say "We Are Still In' on Paris Climate Agreement
WASHINGTON, DC -- The broadest cross section of the American economy yet assembled in pursuit of climate action, today declared their intent to continue to ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions. Together, these leaders are sending a strong signal to the international community and the 194 other parties to the Paris Agreement about the continued commitment of the U.S

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Intl. Quds Day marks a global awakening leading to Palestine's liberation
This article is reprinted from its original publication at khamenei.ir. Intl. Quds Day marks a global awakening leading to Palestine's liberation Jun 20, 2017 Print Palestine is holding strong, and the world is
Culture revolution for aboriginal apartheid in Canada
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD Authentic culture trickles up not down... Left progressives correctly reject the economic trickle down fantasy. Why then do they accept the justice and equity trickle down model, in which state-increased access and advantages for collaborating professional class individuals ("role models") would solve the aboriginal apartheid by some unknown magic contrary to
Geopolitical Trajectories
As I see it... The USA wants continuous instability and violence because global stability and respect for national sovereignty (the very basis of the UN Charter) imply the natural development and independence of Eurasia, Latin America, Africa... and the natural loss of USA hegemony. Likewise, Israel wants continuous war and conflict in the Middle East to assert its military and
UN legalistic final sanitization plan for the post-genocide phase of the global aboriginal problem
The real face of "cultural appropriation" By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD (Originally a status post on the Facebook page of the Ontario Civil Liberties Association.) The latest United Nations (UN) Western-world-led globalist scam plan is upon us: Criminalization of "cultural appropriation": < Cultural appropriation: Make it illegal worldwide, Indigenous advocates say - Delegates in Geneva from
Can't leave scientists alone with science
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD (This article was first published on my climate blog.) If the generalized global warming fever and "climate change" hysteria has taught societal observers anything it is that you cannot leave scientists alone with science. The scientific enterprise is embedded, and scientists are manufactured service intellectuals. Two outcomes are possible. In the first extreme
Want to be oppressed fairly
Here is how I would put it: Most of us want to be oppressed fairly more than we want freedom, and that explains a lot.

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"Party of One" - A Belated Review
Found a signed hardcover version of this at Value Village a month or two ago. Just finished it. I hadn't forgotten how vile and loathsome stephen harper was, but this book does an excellent job of clarifying the details that demonstrated his banal evil, shallowness and stupidity. Some random impressions: I never clearly understood just how illegitimate and sleazy harper's attack on nuclear regula
War in Syria: Where are the protesters?
" The United States is at war with Syria . Though few Americans wanted to face it, this has been the case implicitly since the Obama administration began building bases and sending Special Ops, really-not-there, American troops, and it has been the case explicitly since August 3, 2015, when the Obama administration announced that it would “allow airstrikes to defend Syrian rebels trained by the U
Comparing Corbyn and Trudeau
Martin Lukacs has an editorial in The Guardian in which he says that Justin Trudeau is a counterfeit progressive. He wins accolades from the international press for his "sunny ways," which appears to be mouthing progressive rhetoric and/or lying while being very, very handsome. Corbyn, meanwhile, was written off as fringe, unelectable, unstable and charmless. Some liberal/Liberals here in Canada
Murderous "Bernie-Bro's"
So, the racist scum-bag who knifed three guys trying to stop his harassment of a Muslim woman on a Portland train (killing two and wounding one) was found to be a Bernie Sanders supporter. Then, a week or two later, the guy who shot the Republican politicians who were trying to practice baseball (between helping Wall Street rob people and helping health insurance companies kill people when all th
10,000 BC
"10,000 BC" is a silly movie. It's got an 8% rating on "Rotten Tomatoes" (meaning it's ROTTEN). I bought it for a few bucks back when I liked to get high and watch CGI. I have a bunch of such DVDs and I now only pull them out when the internet is down or so fucking slow that it might as well be down. I have stuff playing in the background as i work on my comics. And I'm usually high when I'm draw
Terrorism in the UK
So, apparently there was a terrorist attack on London Bridge carried out with a van and knives. A suicide attack. Then there was the Manchester concert bombing. Now, we know that the alleged perpetrator of the Manchester bombing was the member of a family of anti-Qaddafi Islamic extremists and that their war against the Libyan dictator was aided and abetted by British intelligence. This was "blow

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Happy Summer
Summer Fields Summer How green and bright they are! How still they lie! The summer fields out-stretching in the sun: An emerald glory, sharp as any cry, Dipping beneath the racing winds that run Across the summer day on swift light feet, To silver the little leaning, laughing grass, To gild the tossing beads of ripening wheat. Here is peace to store within the breast Against the days of tumult an
Connected / When We Demand Change ~ The World Will Change Through Unity Consciousness
Despite today's shooting in Virginia against Republicans ~ reflecting a deep anger which permeates much of our electorate ~ we must also be aware in our internet connected world where we are gradually feeling our collective innate urge to connect and unite ~ which is the principle property of a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness. This state of unity consciousness is also seen in our inn
Trump/Bannon Scuttle Paris Agreement / Go Rogue, Destroy Establishment And Media
What's next , Steve ? Now that Trump has abdicated his leadership of the free world ~ by scuttling the Paris climate accords ~ we may well be witnessing the next self- destructive step in the Bannon/Trump long range agenda which Bannon once described as " We want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment " which is now one step closer including the Trump administr

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Effective vs. Harmful Anti-war Activism
This : A lot of activism comes too late to be productive Stopping adaptation at the bottom of an adaptive valley is bad Activism which is not deeply intellectual and versed in real politics is a blunt instrument which may take away globally optimal policies as options inside democracies Policy is complex, the history of anti-war activism is not only good, there are times it has caused harm and su
The Young Vote
Whatever the result of the election — and the BBC are currently forecasting a Tory minority government with 322 seats — is it looks like young people have turned out in greater numbers in this election that they have done in previous ones. This is likely to have a big long-term effect on politics. In the past parties have cared about older voters, because they actually turn out to vote, and not c
BBC exit poll: Con 314
The BBC exit poll puts the Conservatives on 314 seats. This means they would lose their majority, and they would get 31 seats less than I predict (345, giving them a majority of 40). I hope the BBC are right, because I don’t want another 5 years of Tory government, but I expect my prediction will be a damn sight closer to the result than the BBC’s.
UK General Election Prediction: Con maj 40 seats
This UK general election is harder to predict than most. Polls vary between a Labour lead or 1 point and a Tory lead of 13 points. (1) polling organisations don’t know how bit the “shy Tory” effect will be and therefore don’t know how much to compensate for it, and (2) nor it is known what the turnout of younger voters will be — there have been reports of a million people registering to vote in r

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We Stand With the Prisoners Human Rights March
( PHOTO: Robert King and Albert Woodfox with a former Los Angeles Panther named Hakim, taken at the Los Angeles premiere of Cruel and Unusual ) A3 Newsletter, June 14, 2017: We Stand With the Prisoners Human Rights March Angola 3 stands strong with the upcoming Prisoners Human Rights March on August 19th in Washington D.C. Robert King will be a featured speaker at the Aug. 19 event and encourages

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Australia and Nuclear Submarines
Australia for many reasons is an exceptional country, including in the nuclear policy area: Nuclear weapons were tested on Australian territory, Australia owns intellectual property for enriching uranium, and uranium mined in the outback today fuels the world’s peaceful nuclear applications, but Australia has no nuclear weapons and it produces no nuclear electricity. And so far, …
Anheung Proving Ground
Pssssst! Want to see South Korea’s missile test site? South Korea’s recent launch of a Hyunmoo-2C ballistic missile was notable for many reasons. The missile was launched from a truck on a jack-up barge that Dave Schmerler identified as the SIRIUS. Planet has images of the barge at the dock at the Anheung Proving Ground (on June …
Second Time is NOT a Charm for the Nuclear Ban Treaty
So the well-intended states and civil society groups in New York have produced a second draft of the nuclear weapons ban convention. The draft shows real work, and drafters deserve credit for some notable improvements. However, aside from questionable nature of the exercise to begin with, the second draft retains many of the specific problems …
Chance Encounter with Chauncey Gardiner
Quote of the week: “Chance favors the connected mind.” — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From Long time readers will recall that Chauncey Gardiner has occasionally imparted his wisdom to readers of ACW. I went looking for him last week, notebook in hand, seeking firmer ground in these unsettling times. MK: Chauncey, you …
U.S. Leadership on the Rocks
Quote of the week: “He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits. His whole career was devoted to raising these half-wits against their betters, that he himself might shine… What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition – the ambition of a …
Sechser & Fuhrmann: Deterrence Yes; Coercion No.
Quote of the week: “How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity? The great golem we have made against our enemies is our culture, our bomb culture—its logic, its faith, its vision. … Is it possible that the bomb, in its inventions and reinventions, is not …

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Blogtalk Radio..End of the Road for Christy Clark
The archive is up.....Blogtalk radio featuring Norm Farrell...Canadian Glen and yours truly..topics covered... Site C.....BC Hydro..Run of River....our never ending election, lazy agenda driven mainstream media...Judith Guichon...Craig James....Mike De Jong..Christy Clark.....we cover a myriad of BC centric topics....have a listen. Tune in, Turn on, get angry.....become informed...2 hours of The
Will the Real British Columbia Government please stand up, or is that sit down
Tune in Wednesday June 28th 6:00 PM PST for an enlightened BlogTalk radio broadcast featuring the illustrious Norman Farrell .....BC's foremost critic of BC Hydro...Norm has revealed so many BC Hydro inconsistencies...illusionary profits, forecast failures going out over a decade, debt accumulation, and now of course...the impending Site C boondoggle...no economic case, dire warnings from a myria
Judith Guichon and Craig James..Partisans?
Written by Grant G " What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive " There has been much blather by corporate newspapers and BC Liberal pundits about Judith Guichon ordering a snap election rather than letting John Horgan and Andrew Weaver attempt to govern.. What I am about to say must be clearly heard by Judith Guichon and Craig James... We just has a provincial election(May 9th
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Nonpartisan Speaker of them All(B.C.'s New Government a Cometh)
Written by Grant G Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the most nonpartisan speaker of them all.....? I've often wondered just that. Boy oh boy....Michael Smyth is Postmedia's pointman in trying to incite a new election, rather than let Judith Guichon allow/decide to give John Horgan and Andrew Weaver a chance governing with a bare majority.....Postmedia and Michael Smyth are corporate agenda driven
John Horgan and Andrew Weaver, British Columbia's New Government, Closer To The Heart
Written by Grant G ( With a little help from Rush) " And the men who hold high places... Must be the ones who start... To mold a new reality.. Closer to the heart .. Closer to the heart" By the end of July John Horgan and Andrew Weaver will be the architects of not only a new government but creators of a new governance model, at least new to British Columbia...one molded in cooperative progress f

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"Proud Boys" a national shame
Due to employment related restrictions I'm not as free to post opinions on the internet as I once was, but when I saw this I thought it was something the ink strained wretches should know about and possibly look into. Seem a bunch of Gavin McInnes' little brownshirts decided to disrupt a First Nations and Metis event on Canada Day. Further, it seems they are all serving members of the Royal

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Coyne : You gotta give them an F- on this.
Transcript of Coyne interview on Trudeau's broken promise of electoral reform, Coyne, who voted Liberal in the 2011 election: "You gotta give them an F- on this. There could not have been a more unequivocal promise in that election platform among all those other promises but this one was in black letters designed to be believed. There's a reason they put it in the platform - it was to try to attr

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No funding for rights-denying outfits
Volunteers for Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC) are continuing their research that we reported on here into the funding of rights-denying anti-choice organizations. Specifically, we are looking for public money — government, arms’-length granting bodies — going to these gangs. Remember DJ!'s success in getting an Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) grant rescinded from Lambton Crisis Pregn

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The Existentialist Cowboy: Life, Logic and Meaning:
The Existentialist Cowboy: Life, Logic and Meaning : "An ancient problem is unresolved by 21st Century technology: how can we as human beings learn to think better, to free ourselves from superstition and prejudice, to achieve the full potential implied in our very 'humaness'? Plato espoused an ideal Republic ruled by 'philosopher kings'. However, we don't live in an ideal society. We live in a i

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The X In Latin-X
Twenty years ago, I wrote “The X in La Raza,” a political essay I referred to as an “anti-book.” I did so at a time when people were beginning to write Chicano or Chicana with an X as in Xicano or Xicana. Though “The X in La Raza” was not a response to this development, rather, it was a response to myself, an essay I had written in 1981, titled “Who declared War on the Word Chicano? For the rest
Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz Identity. Part I of 2
A couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano Movement, and thus identified as such during that time, though throughout most of my life, my

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Grand Solar Minimum - atmospheric compression - impact on food production, location and energy
NASA admits it's going to be a long-term sunspot activity minimum, but what does this really mean? Food impacted. Locations impacted. Energy production impacted. Basically, you'll pay more for less in the coming decades - and the Grand Chess Game economic game theory amoral corporate monsters KNOW THIS - the 2030s are gonna be a very interesting time, and we know what the Chinese say about 'inter
Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille - solid Hydrogen lattice - data supports pseudo-metallic sun
c/o Robitaille 2014 and when you think of how Saturn or Jupiter are supposed to have been made, it all might make sense. Brown dwarfs are plasmas ejected from stellar bodies, they quickly lose their high-red-shift values and start to glow based on electrical input from their surroundings. Matter condenses and brown dwarfs extinguish when they no longer have the electrical input of the entire univ
Electric Universe - proto-Saturn - Ruler of Aquarius
Saturnian configuration prior to Solar incursion in 10,000 BC before the Crescent of the Sun marked Saturn's eye the obvious (mainstream) question, "Why Saturn? Why now?" Good morning, readers of the Free Planet blog, as you can all see my love/hate relationship with this " brown-dwarf proto-Saturn was our ancient Sun " aspect of the Talbott/Thornhill electric universe continues... Why Saturn? We
Mike Philbin abstract art - Wix site overhaul - 2016 and 2017 content update
I realised this morning that I hadn't updated my WIX art website for most of 2017, so I spent a few lunchtime hours on Sunday adding new categories, arrangments and content. The newer, shinier, smashingier Mike Philbin abstract art site , cheers wixy .
David Talbott - Thunderbolts Project - Saturn Ra Solar Battles
David Talbott , director of the Thunderbolts Project needs to put together a believable TIME-FRAME for his contention that, "Saturn was once our primary Sun." How far back do we have to travel before our ancient Sun i.e. proto-Saturn, was captured by our current Sun. Are we talking aeons or millennia? Not millions, but thousands of years. These dramatic sky transitions were, after all, recorded b
Electric Universe - Hertzan Chimera Unit 2017 - reappraisal and reassessment
Back in 1985, I had a single dream about a waterfall... Seriously, this is how my pseudo-physics entity, the Hertzan Chimera Unit , came about. I was nineteen years old, and knew no better. The HC Unit was about the size of a hydrogen 


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