As in India, China's economic surge has resulted in a massive increase in the number of private vehicles on its roads overwhelming the transport infrastructure. Shown here is a traffic jam in Beijing. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)TodayThe most popular stories in your feedly
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China unveils elevated bus to tackle traffic jams
As the world's most populated country, China's gridlocked traffic is legendary, especially in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai. To help combat the problem of traffic jams and maximise limited road space, the country's top engineers have unveiled the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo on Sunday. The TEB is an electric-powered elevated bus th
Rooster Teeth's new series 'Camp Camp' has 'South Park' vibes
LOS ANGELES — Rooster Teeth is continuing its "summer of animation" line-up with its new series Camp Camp. The Austin-based production company, behind hits such as Red vs. Blue, gave Mashable a sneak peak at the show (above), which debuts June 10 on RoosterTeeth.com. Camp Camp follows 10-year-old cynical camper Max, who finds himself stuck at a dysfunctional summer camp run by a shady
New optical clock is most accurate ever built
Scientists have come up with a clock so accurate that it could even redefine the length of a second. Currently, time is measured on the idea of a pend...
Aristotle's lost tomb has finally been found
The long-sought final resting place of the Greek philosopher has been unearthed at a site in Macedonia. Considered by many to be the world's first tru...
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What the hell are you doing, Bernie? The Vermont senator inexplicably agrees to debate Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Elaine Thompson/Gene J. Puskar/Photo montage by Salon) Unless Hillary Clinton is indicted (which remains unlikely), Bernie Sanders will not be the Democratic nominee. It’s a tiresome task, having to make this point over and over again. But it’s necessary. Sanders continues to campaign as though the race isn’t over, and that’s understandable. There are stil
Wish You Were Here: Royal Mail stamps honour 50 years of Pink Floyd
Stamps mark half-century since group turned professional, with albums and live performances represented A new set of stamps is being issued to honour Pink Floyd, featuring some of the band’s best known album covers. The 10 stamps will mark 50 years since the group turned professional, and will include album covers such as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were
China unveils 'straddling bus' design to beat traffic jams
The concept vehicle is designed to float above the clogged-up streets of some of the country’s biggest citiesA Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus capable of gliding over the nightmarish mega-jams for which urban China has become notorious.Plans for the so-called Transit Explore Bus or TEB were showcased earlier this month at a techno
Swiss boys' refuse to shake female teacher's hand, face $5,000 fines
The canton reversed the school's earlier compromise with the boys, who are Muslim Syrian immigrants. Switzerland, like much of Europe, faces cultural challenges amid an influx of asylum-seekers.
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Possible case for fifth force of nature
A team of physicists at the University of California has uploaded a paper to the arXiv preprint server in which they suggest that work done by a team in Hungary last year might have revealed the existence of a fifth force of nature. Their paper has, quite naturally, caused quite a stir in the physics community as several groups have set a goal of reproducing the experiments conducted by the team a
New calculations show Earth's core is much younger than thought
A trio of researchers in Denmark has calculated the relative ages of the surface of the Earth versus its core and has found that the core is 2.5 years younger than the crust. In a paper published in the European Journal of Physics, U I Uggerhøj and R E Mikkelsen with Aarhus University and J Faye with the University of Copenhagen, describe the math involved in their effort and their results.
Watch Edward Snowden Teach Vice How to Make a Phone ‘Go Black’
Shane Smith interviewed the whistleblower in Moscow and got the details on how to hack into smartphones so they can't be used for surveillance. The post Watch Edward Snowden Teach Vice How to Make a Phone 'Go Black' appeared first on WIRED.
Antarctic fossils reveal creatures weren't safer in the south during dinosaur extinction
A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to life in the polar regions. Previously, scientists had thought that creatures living in the southernmost regions of the planet would have been in a less perilous position during the mass extinction event than those elsewhere on Earth.
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Pitch, Please with Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse took a turn selling a mystery product in Ellen's hilarious game.From: TheEllenShow
It Shall Come To Us
Director: Machete Bang Bang Cinematography & Color: Rick Darge Concept: Machete, Toogiesauras, Smac Head Choreography: Toogiesauras Dancers: Smac, Toogiesauras, Machete Editor: Machete Special thanks to Brandon Hawkins Music: Plekete by Zap Mama & Work It by Missy ElliottCast: Machete Bang Bang
Animals Do the Darnedest Things
These videos of animals are sure to make you laugh. Check them out!From: TheEllenShow
Wi-Fi Brita vs. regular Brita comparison
Amazon teamed up with Brita to make a water pitcher that connects to Wi-Fi and reorders your pitcher filters for you. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: http://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: http://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More: http://www.
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Interview 1174 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-05-26%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the FBI fails to keep the lid on its biometric database; Detroit adds educational insult to chemical injury; and the Saudis say 9/11 was a US job.
Interview 1173 – Tim Anderson Exposes the Dirty War on Syria
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-05-20%20Tim%20Anderson.mp3"][/audio]Today we talk to Dr. Tim Anderson of the University of Sydney about his new book, “The Dirty War on Syria: Washington, Regime Change and Resistance.” From the Houla hoax to the chemical weapons false flag, Dr. Anderson rips the mask from the lies that have clouded the mainstream narrative of the Syrian
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Environmentalists, First Nations Vow Summer of Action Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
Canadian regulators’ OK of the tar sands pipeline expansion draws flack from activists
Environmentalists, First Nations Vow Long Summer of Action Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
Canadian regulators’ OK of the tar sands pipeline expansion draws flack from activists
The Real Threat to Europe’s Last Primeval Forest: Bark Beetles or Undemocratic Politicians?
Poland’s plans to increase logging in Białowieża may destroy this ancient forest
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Lack of support endangers rangers and global wildlife
Battling a global poaching crisis, wildlife rangers believe they lack the necessary equipment, training and support from their governments to protect themselves and the world's threatened wildlife from poachers, according to a new WWF study released today at the World Ranger Congress in Colorado, USA. Ranger Perceptions: Africa surveyed 570 rangers across 12 African countries and found that 82 per
Migratory fish species suffering severe population loss
In the past three decades global catches of sturgeons and paddlefishes have dropped by over 99 per cent, documenting severe population losses, according to a new WWF report. Released on the eve of World Migration Day, the report, Saving Sturgeons, highlights the main threats that the species are facing around the world. Although they outlived the dinosaurs, today up to 23 of all 27 sturgeon and pa
Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna catches need cuts to prevent collapse
Gland, Switzerland. Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna stocks may collapse without better regulation, warned WWF in advance of the annual meeting1 of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), the organisation responsible for the conservation and management of tuna and other marine resources in the Indian Ocean. The IOTC, which meets May 23-27 on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, has yet to set
Small businesses in Asia can help forests and economies grow, new report shows
GLAND, Switzerland – Small and medium-sized Asian businesses specializing in forest and ecosystem services can play a key role in reducing deforestation in the region, according to a new study. The Impact in the Forests: The potential for business solutions to combat deforestation in large forest landscapes in Asia report, released today, explores ways to create business solutions for deforestatio
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The Ultimate Graduation Speech By Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone / Filmmaker Oliver Stone just gave the ultimate commencement address at the University of Connecticut and it was remarkable for both its candor and cold hard truth ~ for what the average college graduate of today will most likely be facing in our interconnected world is that the ultimate gift they are searching for may just be the act of finding themselves and making a difference: All
John Bradshaw / Father Of Inner Child Movement Passes On At 82
Click on Photo to enlargeJohn Bradshaw, a pioneer in the self-healing movement and author of Reclaiming and Healing your Inner child was an important and underrated compass in the field of humanistic psychology. Bradshaw correctly maintained that our ultimate home coming was reclaiming a lost and alone child within ourselves and set the stage for my work in reclaiming the soul of that lost child b
Obama Visits Japan / Three Gifts For An Important Opportunity
Fuji the magnificent empowers all in its spiritual glow President Obama will visit Japan in late May for a Group of Seven summit but will enjoy an incredible opportunity to earn his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize by visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He must visit with some of the survivors and then offer sincere condolences with the promise to the world that we must never allow our national aims or differe
The Ultimate Reality Show / President Donald Trump
The Donald with AttitudeI used to think 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 electorate who have been left out of the political process and have
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2 out of 3 potholes fixed
I recently wrote about some potholes. I notified the council, and lo and behold, they’ve had a go at fixing them: Two of the three appear to have been fixed. The third one is still there, unfixed: it has a depression where the buses’ offside front wheel stops, and with a corresponding hump as the tarmac has been moved nearer to the pavement. I see this a lot at Edinburgh bus stops, but I have nev
Trump and Clinton are both unpopular; Sanders should run
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular mainstream candidates since records began, as this chart shows: If Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, as she may well do, Sanders should run as an independent, because he would have a very good chance of winning. If he does, Hillary supporters would no doubt cry foul, and accuse him of being a spoiler and not a real Democrat anyway.
Edinburgh Potholes Come In Threes
I was travelling down Pilton Street North today when I came across a trio of potholes. They were by a bus stop and from the pattern they made I presume the bus braking at the stop has abraided the road, causing them: Note that all three potholes show evidence of having botched repairs done to them, and then the potholes re-forming over the repairs. I have seen this many, many times with potholes,
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New UK Guardian interview with Albert Woodfox, two months after his release
In a UK Guardian article published today, Albert Woodfox reflects upon two months of life outside of prison walls and solitary confinement. The article concludes with the following excerpt: The most disturbing part of freedom, Woodfox says, has been the dawning realisation since his release that in America in 2016 there is very little sense of political or social struggle. When he entered prison i
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Admitting Non-NPT Members: Questions for the NSG
The Nuclear Suppliers Group in coming weeks may consider an application for membership from India, and perhaps also from Pakistan. Both states possess nuclear weapons and are outside the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Hence, they are states whose nuclear weapon activities the NSG has actively sought to inhibit. In its scope and activities, the NSG …
The Second Coming of MIRVs
Reminder! The book launch event takes place on Monday, May 16, at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. If the Pentagon is to be believed, the second coming of MIRVs is upon us, this time in Asia, with China’s deployment of the DF-5B missile. The advent of MIRVs in the first nuclear age was ruinous to …
Nuclear Weapons and the Laws of War (cont.)
Note to readers: Dr. Justin Anderson continues the conversation about nuclear weapons and the laws of war with this contribution. Rejoinders are, of course, welcome. Justin is a Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Center for the Study of WMD. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect …
Producing Tritium in North Korea
Jeffrey has asked me to post a blog written by Hugh Chalmers, who works with me here in London. It covers possible ways in which North Korea could produce tritium for its nuclear weapons programme. It first appeared in Trust & Verify, which is our centre’s quarterly publication. I’m not going to plug Trust & …
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Sponsored Post: FT Pub Quiz Takes Look at Wacky 2016 Election Season
By MARC McDONALDAs many pundits have noted, this has been one of the most wacky and bizarre political campaign seasons in decades. And I sometimes wonder if we've ever faced an election where the voters were less informed on the issues, and the candidates, than they are today.I recall reading once about the early days of television. The great TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, among others, had high hop
Progressive Music Classics. The Clash: "Something About England"
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of working-class people around the world.One of the highlights of The Clash's 1980 underrated masterpiece, Sandinista! is the haunting "Something About England," a song that gives a whirlwind tour of the disasters of the 20th century. Although the song was r
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Ted Cruz Drops Out Of Presidential Race The Same Day Trump Says Accuses Cruz' Father Associated With Lee Harvey Oswald
Remember when Ted Cruz said he was going to fight Donald Trump "ALL THE WAY TO THE END"? Yep, that was just yesterday. But TODAY, Donald Trump mentions that Ted Cruz' father was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald around the time of the JFK assassination, and Ted Cruz IMMEDIATELY drops out of the race. You don't have to put two and two together here. THEN couple it with the fact of doing the
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Bullying Is NOT Leadership Mr. Trudeau.
Bullying is not leadership, whether it is invoking Closure on an important Bill or testosteronic rampaging on the floor of the House of Commons which injured a fellow Member of Parliament. Just sayin' :(
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Do you ever wonder why Paul Craig Roberts refers to Hillary Clinton as "Killary"? Well read this. This artical was composed by Michael Collins, a friend of mine who writes factual articals on places and people that most U.S. readers would not learn about from the so-called "mainstream media".
What about violence from the Clinton campaign?Posted on May 18, 2016 by Michael CollinsBy Michael Collins (Creative Commons 4.0)Some rough housing at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce their actions. The double standard on this issue is s
Michael Hudson has long believed to me and others as the top economist looking after the rights of the people of the US and Europe. However, my attention to this particular Hudson column was thanks to ace economist Paul Craig Roberts, who summerized it in this way: "In his May 9, 2016, speech to European medical professionals, Michael Hudson points out that the result of TTIP for Europe will be the privatization of health care systems with the associated much higher costs. Hudson’s accurate description of TTIP shows that politically powerful corporations have gained the power in Western “democracies” to sacrifice the welfare of all populations to corporate greed for profit regardless of the cost to peoples, countries, and societies."
MAY 11, 2016 The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP's Threat to Europe's Elderly by Michael Hudson Buy his bookThe most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug trea
For once I am going to forgo composing a preamble, thus allowing you to read Paul Craig Roberts' latest super-important column exactly as he intended.
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China — Paul Craig Roberts May 5, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China Can the world wake up?Paul Craig RobertsOn September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph reported:“Declassified American government documents sh
Dear friends, I came across this article last Thursday and the stock market continued its fall on Friday. What's going on? Well the market dropped greatly in January and only recovered in February because the big companies were buying back their own stocks. The only reason I can think of was to convince "mom and pop" that it is safe to invest again, whereupon the big companies could then buy back their stocks during a momentary drop and later sell them at higher prices thanks to "mom and pop's" investments. But the truth of the matter is that the U.S. government has been lying about the prosperity of the country. They claim that there is only 5% unemployment and that all who want jobs have found one. Big lie! Actually there is 23% unemployment. Moreover, about 50% of American "moms and pops" have no money to spare whatsoever. Playing the stock markets is out of the question for them. Ironically, the big corporations have bitten the government's lies hook, line, and sinker. So dear…
This Indicator Is Still Flashing A Bear Market Warning The NYSE just released the margin debt numbers for March and, considering the rally in stocks we’ve seen, it wasn’t much of an uptick. In fact, the nominal level of margin debt remains well below its 12-month average.The 12-month rate of change, which is pretty tightly correlated with stocks’ same rate of change, is also still negative.Now thi
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Pay to Play in BC with Spectra
Six years ago the BC government decided not to bother doing its own environmental assessments any more because it was so much more efficient to hand that responsibility over to the industry-captured federal National Energy Board for rubber-stamping. That deal was called the Environmental Assessment Equivalency Agreement. In January the BC Supreme Court ruled that the BC government did not have the
National Energy Board Ok's Trans Mountain Pipeline
You're shocked, I'm sure.National Energy Board presser in Calgary today, Robert Steedman : "The NEB recommends that the Government of Canada find the Trans Mountain expansion project to be in Canada's public interest. ... The project would not likely cause significant environmental effects."The Texas-based Kinder Morgan twinned pipeline will run from Alberta to Burnaby and Burrard Inlet
Marc Mayrand on Election Reform and Referendum
Elections Canada CEO Marc Mayrand at PROC (Procedures Committee), excerpted :"With a majority government in place, as well as a fixed election date of October 21, 2019, there is an opportunity now to bring the electoral process, currently anchored in the 19th century, in line with contemporary Canadian expectations."On holding an election reform referendum as advocated by the Cons :"
Liberal Majority Electoral Reform Committee
Electoral Reform Committee announced today: Liberal Chair. Six Liberals, three Cons, 1 NDP. Elizabeth May and one Bloc sit in but no voting rights. That's likely 9 to 1 against adopting any form of proportional representation.For a preview of how 9 to 1 committee dynamics work, take a look at last week's Finance Committee vote, same numerical party makeup as above, as they debated a motion to &qu
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SHOCKER! Fake Clinics Lie
The Abortion Rights Coalition has released a major study into the online presence of Canadian fake clincs, or crisis pregnancy centres (full PDF report).From the press release:Anti-abortion counselling agencies in Canada often present misinformation on their websites or fail to disclose their anti-choice or religious agenda to prospective clients, according to a new study published today by the Ab
March for Lies 2016, Part 2: UMPTY-GAZILLION ATTENDEES!
There were great expectations for this year's March for Lies. First, its traditional organizer, Catholic Campaign Lies, graciously invited all anti-choice groups to participate. And second, Parliament is debating and will pass the tragically flawed medical assistance in dying act, which one would have thought would rev up the "womb to tomb" gang.So the turn-out was going to be MASSIVE, y
March for Lies 2016, Part 1
Clever me. I saved screen shots of the 4/20 marijuana rally from the Hill Cam to compare with March for Lies, Futility on the Hill Bunfest.Top image today at 1:26, just before the marching, at max attendance.Bottom image 4/20 at 4:20.Compare.Speakers at today's bunfest claimed there were 20,000 people there. David Akin, veteran reporter of these events, estimated 4,500, adding that that might be g
Kill C14: Trust Patients and Doctors on Assisted Dying
DAMMIT JANET! has a not-so-radical proposal. Treat medical assistance in dying (MAID) like abortion. In other words, adapt no new law on it and let patients and medical professionals figure it out. In both Carter and Morgentaler, the Supreme Court called on Parliament to craft new laws.In declining to create a Charter exemption, SCC said in the "remedy" section of Carter:Complex regulato
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