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Sound the alarms: Simone Biles finally met Zac Efron
Is there anything Simone Biles can't do? The unstoppable gymnast just
won her fifth medal of the Rio Olympics — that's four gold, one bronze —
and is now pretty much universally regarded as the greatest gymnast of
all time. You'd think things couldn't possibly get better, right? Then
Biles met Zac Efron, her well-documented #1 crush. SEE ALSO: Bow down to
badass Simone Biles According to many, ma
Astrophysicist had the perfect response to climate change denier
It's August and climate change deniers/trolls are clearly out and
about, as a grim exchange between physicist Professor Brian Cox and
climate change denier Malcom Roberts shows . SEE ALSO: Physicist
explaining climate change to a skeptic on TV is grim viewing Another
astrophysicist had to face off trolls after she shared on Twitter her
worries over the consequences of climate change: Dr. Katherin
Weird googly-eyed squid found on sea floor
A recent deep-sea expedition off the coast of California has revealed a
rather unusual looking creature. Discovered by the research vessel EV
Nautilus...
Is Proxima Centauri home to a second Earth ?
Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet
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Q&A smackdown: Brian Cox brings graphs to grapple with Malcolm Roberts
One Nation senator-elect asks repeatedly for ‘empirical data’ – and
the celebrity physicist has plenty at hand The celebrity physicist Brian
Cox came prepared to the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night with graphs,
ready to counter claims by his co-panellist, the climate denier and
Australian senator-elect Malcolm Roberts . Roberts, one of four senators
elected from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, t
Louisiana’s quiet crisis: Cable news and the folly of disaster porn coverage
A young girl silently looks back at her family after being rescued
from floodwaters that overtook Comite Drive and the surrounding
neighborhoods in Central on Saturday. (Credit: The Advocate/Caroline
Ourso) Louisiana is underwater. If you don’t live in or around
Louisiana, you may not know that. And it’s not your fault. Cable news
has mostly ignored it. Sure, there’s been coverage, but not as muc
Anjem Choudary convicted of supporting Islamic State
Notorious hate preacher faces up to 10 years in prison after swearing
allegiance to Isis, it can now be revealed Anjem Choudary, one of the
most notorious hate preachers living in Britain, is facing jail after
being found guilty of supporting Islamic State. Having avoided arrest
for years despite his apparent sympathy for extremism and links to some
of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, Choudar
Have scientists discovered a fifth fundamental force of nature?
A recent analysis of data from scientists in Hungary may reveal a new
kind of particle that is not predicted by the Standard Model of physics,
possibly pointing to a fifth fundamental force of nature.
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10 Biggest Historical Mysteries That Will Probably Never Be Solved
From the identity of Jack the Ripper to the location of Cleopatra's
tomb to the fate of the Ark of the Covenant, some historical mysteries
may never be solved. Perhaps that makes them even more intriguing.
Googly-Eyed Purple Squid Sighting Delights Scientists
Scientists could not believe this googly-eyed animal was real.
This Supercomputer Will Try to Find Intelligence on Reddit
Researchers at OpenAI are developing algorithms capable of learning
language by reading the Web and controlling robots through practice.
Physicist claims to have observed quantum effects of Hawking radiation in the lab for the first time
(Phys.org)—Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at the Israel Institute of
Technology, has published a paper in the journal Nature Physics
describing experiments in which he attempted to create a virtual black
hole in the lab in order to prove that Stephen Hawking's theory of
radiation emanating from black holes is correct —though his experiments
are based on sound, rather than light. In his paper, he cla
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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 review
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Is Swimming With These Endangered Whale Sharks Helping or Hurting Them?
Whale shark swimming tours are a popular tourist draw in the Yucatan
Peninsula of Mexico. These tours are promoted as a way to boost the
local economy and the conservation of this endangered species, but
sometimes the tour operators and tourists don't follow the rules further
risking the well-being of the sharks. Read more about whale sharks:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/wha
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Louisiana Floods: A “Classic Signal of Climate Change”
At least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to “historic” flooding event
Louisiana Floods: A “classic signal of climate change”
At least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to “historic” flooding event
A Helping Hand for Fledgling Puffins and Petrels in Newfoundland
Local conservation group rescues stranded birds, assists them on their way to the ocean
A Refuge in the Mountains
Great Smoky Mountain National Park creates space for wildness, adventure, and imagination
The Rules of Exposition
Not for its economics
From The Economist : David Ricardo showed in 1817 that a country could
benefit from trade even if it did everything better than its neighbours.
A country that is better at everything will still be “most better”, so
to speak, at something. It should concentrate on that, Ricardo showed,
importing what its neighbours do “least worse”. If bad grammar is not
enough to make the point, an old analogy mig
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Cranky in Paradise: How life in a fairly perfect place makes us angry
I felt a quick flash of annoyance during a swim this past weekend at
Thetis Lake when a group of young people on a raft of floaties cranked
up their music a little too much. I then felt an immediate and sobering
flash of alarm that a bunch of mild-mannered young people having a
little fun in the sun had annoyed me. Could it be that Cranky Capital
Regionite Syndrome is already upon me, a mere thre
On the road again: My writing goes wandering
Delighted to have my writing appearing on other sites every now and
then, the most recent examples being in the online B.C. newspaper The
Tyee and as a guest blogger on the web site Naked Truth run by
self-described "anarchist stripper mom" Annie Temple. Hope you'll check
them out! The piece I wrote for The Tyee grew out of some conversations I
had this week about my own experiences with
A Different Perspectiv
The Roswell Slides - Who Got the Five Grand?
I was reading Tim Printy’s SUNlite (which you can easily find by
typing Tim Printy and SUNlite into your search engine or use
www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/ SUNlite .htm ). He mentioned that Jaime
Maussan had paid Tony Bragalia five thousand dollars for finding another
picture of the mummy displayed in the so-called Roswell Slides. This
suggested a couple of things to me. Tim Printy First, I wondered,
Alien Photographed at Mutilation Site
Rob McConnell, on his X-Zone Radio program on Thursday, July 21,
interviewed Charles Stansburge, who is a MUFON State Section Director
covering some fourteen counties in Texas. According to what Stansburge
said, at that time, he had taken a photograph, or he had a photograph,
that showed an alien creature and something described as a portal close
to a mutilation site. He said that he was told by
UFO Sightings and Job Security
Got a telephone call the other morning from a guy who had seen a UFO,
or rather multiple UFOs, but had not reported them because he feared for
his job. He was sure that if he reported them, his superiors would deem
him unworthy of his position, or more to the point, think that he was
crazy because, as we all know, only crazy people, or drunks, see UFOs. I
suggested that very few people had ever l
Socorro, New Mexico and Lonnie Zamora - Revisited 2016
On April 24, 1964, Lonnie Zamora, a police officer in Socorro, New
Mexico, spotted a landed object and two small humanoids standing near
it. According to the Project Blue Book files, Zamora was chasing a
speeder when he heard a loud roar and saw a flash of light in the
southwestern sky. Fearing that a dynamite shed on the edge of town might
have exploded; Zamora broke off the chase and headed in
Activist Teacher
"Hate crime" is sick
"Hate crime", as a crime in state statutes, is a feature of a
totalitarian society. Democratic societies have only regular crimes and a
strong presumption of innocence until proven guilty, with no thought or
expression crimes. A regular crime must have a victim (different from
the accused, and not society at large) that was actually, measurably and
willfully harmed by the actions of the
Allen L Roland's Weblog
America'S Dark Side Is Hillary'S Cross Of Iron
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration,
with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit
Israel. See story ~
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/clinton-email-we-must-destroy-syria-for-israel/
America's Cross of Iron speech was immortalized by President Eisenhower
in 1953 as well as his farewell address to the nation in 1961 and he
correctly
Hillary Clinton'S General Election Strategy / It'S My Turn So Deal With It
Imperious Q ueen Hillary at the Podium When things get to politically
hectic or unpredictable, I usually turn to humor or satire to help lead
me to another perspective and in the case of this year's 2016
Presidential election ~ the Onion brilliantly assists along with a
weekend major WikiLeaks release which nails Hillary on her principle
character flaw, trustworthiness: Allen L Roland. PhD "
The Greening Of America / It'S Final Act Is Approaching
THE GREENING OF AMERICA / IT'S FINAL ACT IS APPROACHING The Greening
of America is a 1970 book by Charles A. Reich. It is a paean to the
counterculture of the 1960s and its values. Excerpts first appeared as
an essay in the September 26, 1970 issue of The New Yorker. The book was
originally published by Random House . In 1970, Charles Reich wrote The
Greening Of America , a book that profoundly i
It'S In Our Hands, There Is Another Choice ~ Jill Stein For President
T he successful Bernie Sanders populist movement was most definitely
grassroots and anti-establishment and now that Bernie has submitted to
the Clinton machine, which raised its ugly head at the Democratic
Convention and showed its true colors, there is no one in the movement
more effectively carrying the progressive anti-war message than Green
Presidential candidate Jill Stein ~ whose trusted pr
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Albert Woodfox and Robert King in New York City, August 7 and 8
On Sunday, August 7, Robert King and Albert Woodfox will be at the Law
For The People Convention in New York City, organized by the National
Lawyer's Guild . They will be speaking on the Solitary Confinement panel
from 1-2:30 pm. Then on Monday, August 8, Albert and King will appear
at a book signing, from 6-9 PM at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor
Center, 310 West 43rd Street, in NYC.
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Machine Plant managed by Ho Chol Yong
We spend a lot of time reading North Korean propaganda. One interesting
thing the North Koreans do is try to obscure the location and purpose
of certain facilities. There are a small number of facilities in DPRK
propaganda that are identified by the name of the plant manager only.
These have always interested me. What …
Donald Trump’s Challenge to Nuclear Orthodoxy
The belief system in nuclear deterrence makes the most sense at the
most elementary level: nuclear weapons deter use by an adversary for
fear of retaliation in kind. Deterrence therefore requires survivable
nuclear capabilities. It doesn’t take much by way of force structure to
convey the threat that leaves something to chance, which is the …
The Lesson of Nagasaki
Hiroshima gets all the attention, but Nagasaki teaches the more
important lesson. The need to destroy Hiroshima will be forever debated,
but the counterarguments were unpersuasive to President Harry Truman
and Secretary of War Henry Stimson. A world war had taken the lives of
tens of millions. Noncombatants were not spared. When a war-ending
weapon …
3D Modeling as an Analytic Tool
For a few years now, we here at the James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies and our benevolent overlords at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative have been using 3D modeling as a way to create flashy
visuals to engage the public. We do so to remind them that nuclear
missiles are (a) horrifically dangerous instruments of …
Big Dan's Big Blog
Sgt David Clarke Of Milwaukee Gives Speech At RNC On July 18, Then
Milwaukee Cop Shoots Black Guy August 13 In Milwaukee, Then Sgt David
Clarke Becomes FOX's On-The-Scene Police Expert: HOW CONVENIENT!!!!!!
July 18 unknown Milwaukee black cop (who seems to hate blacks btw...)
gives speech at RNC: August 13, about a month later, Milwaukee cops
shoot and kill black guy: Guess where the shooting occurrred? In
Milkwaukee, where SGT DAVID CLARKE is from! The same guy who gave a
speech at the RNC a month ago! And guess who conveniently becomes FOX's
"on the scene police expert"? SGT DAVID CLARKE
Are Trump & Hillary Taking Down The GOP AND Rightwing Media?
During the Republican primary, in which Donald Trump ANNIHILATED the
rest of the GOP candidates, the establishment Republicans were trying to
gather together to take down Trump? Were they right? Was it because
they knew HE was taking THEM down? What else can explain Trump's
seemingly flipping a switch after the RNC and acting like a complete
NUT? It looks like he's throwing the general election t
Buckdog
"This Is How Fascism Comes To America" ....
This is How Fascism Comes To America by Robert Kagan - The Washington
Post "The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal
political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the
republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative” principles,
all would be well. But of course the entire Trump phenomenon has nothing
to do with policy or ideology. It has
Cherchez la Verite
Paul Craig Roberts is only one year younger than me, and we both got
under-graduate degrees in technical universities, his at Georgia Tech,
mine at Carnegie Tech. Moreover, we both took six years to get our PhDs,
his in economics from from the University of Virginia, after also
studying at University of California at Berkeley and Merton College at
Oxford University. Thus he became a top knotch economist, becoming
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan and an associate
editor on the Wall Street Journal before giving up such paying jobs in
order to expose the crimes of our government. Less importantly, I became
a prize winning physicist after Graduating from Brown University. But
in the present situation you will learn more of what you need to know
from him than from me. So my readers should peruse PCR's posts that I
have reposted today and yesterday. All that I can give you now is how to
make money when the stock market crashes ...which is beginning happen
as we speak.
How Long Can Economic Reality Be Ignored? — Paul Craig Roberts August
10, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via
email go to Original and sign up at bottom. How Long Can Economic
Reality Be Ignored? Paul Craig Roberts Trump and Hitlery have come out
with the obligatory “economic plans.” Neither them nor their advisors,
have any idea about what really needs to be done, bu
The Felder Report speaks for itself. Speaking separately is my silver
and gold companies at 9:50am EDT today. The top four are companies that I
own shares in, which process and sell gold and/or in the case of SLW,
silver. (UEC is a uranium company.) Note that a little arithmetic leads
to the fact that the average of my four gold and silver companies at
this point in morning is 34 times the (then) upward movement of the
DowJones (DJI). Now at 11:35am, the gold and silver companies are beaten
down a bit by the stock market criminals who can borrow as much cash as
they need to do this kind if faking. However, at the moment I am
composing this, the Dow is MINUS 44! I sure hope that the readers of my
blog will learn something from these things before it's too late.
The Felder Report It’s earnings season once again and it looks as if,
as a group, corporate America still can’t find the end of its earnings
decline since profits peaked over a year ago. What’s more analysts,
renowned for their Pollyannish expectations, can’t seem to find it,
either. So I thought it might be interesting to look at what the stock
market has done in the past during earnings recessi
Today, I (the blogger) amplify Paul Craig Roberts’ piece below. In his
second paragraph he provides a link which he says “The person who
prepared this …is a bit crude in his language, but his point is
nevertheless sound.” However, when I went to this link I spent maybe 15
or 20 minutes watching the video of that person, whose language I
thought was OK but who might well have edited out a lot of stuff without
losing the high points. I was about to leave this link when I realized
that the work of a second photographer of the alleged truck massacre was
to follow. It was at a different location and did seem strange. Then
there were additioal amateur photographers displaying their work. I
think it was the third one that was truly revealing. This woman found
herself exactly alongside of the parked truck that was supposed to run
over many people a few moments later. This place was not very far from
the small town to the west where the truck was supposed to have come
from. Yet in this…
France’s Minister of the Interior Is Withholding All Security Camera
Evidence of the Nice Truck Massacre and Demands that the Evidence be
Destroyed July 26, 2016 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive
email notice of this news letter France’s Minister of the Interior Is
Withholding All Security Camera Evidence of the Nice Truck Massacre and
Demands that the Evidence be Destroyed Obviously,
Oh how our government lies! But when it comes to the economy, the bigger
the lies the bigger will be the crash. Here I'm talking about the stock
market. And the only good news is that the banksters and stock market
riggers will "go down with the ship" due to their own greedy ignorance.
However, you honest folks with small savings should either sell all now
...or actually make money during the crash by buying into companies that
already own large quantities of silver and gold ore which they can melt
into those precious metals whenever the demand increases. (I provide
you with several tried and trusted such companies in my second blog
below.)
Another Phony Jobs Report — Paul Craig Roberts August 8, 2016 |
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Original and sign up at bottom. Another Phony Jobs Report Paul Craig
Roberts As John Williams has made clear, the monthly payroll jobs number
consists mainly of an add-on factor of 200,000 jobs. These jobs are a
product of the assumption in the Birth-Death Model th
Craig Murray
The Dysfunctional United Kingdom
Recently an Angus mother of three infant children was separated from
them and jailed for ten months for over-claiming £10,000 per year in
benefits. Meanwhile the Duke of Westminster evades £3.6 billion in
inheritance tax through a transparently fraudulent use of trusts which
“have the option” to give the money to someone else instead. The United
Kingdom is a socially backward and sometimes viciou
The Cynicism of Hillary
Hillary Clinton’s completely unfounded claim that Russia was behind
the passing to WikiLeaks of Democratic National Committee documents was
breathtakingly cynical. It was a successful ploy in that it gave her
supporters, particularly those dominating mainstream media, something
else to focus on other than the fact that the DNC had been busily fixing
the primaries for Hillary. It was however gross
Doune the Rabbit Hole 19-21 August
As regular readers know, this blog is intimately connected to the
Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival. I always enjoy meeting many of you there
in the eponymous Whistleblower bar, and this year the tremendous moral
uplift I personally get from our pop-up community will be more welcome
than ever, after a difficult few weeks coping with family illness. There
are a couple of short videos from last year w
Barbarians at the Gates
A Typical Raiding Party of Corbynistas and Cybernats A key weapon of
the neo-liberal establishment in delegitimising the emergence of popular
organisation to the left, is to portray all thinkers outside the
Overton window as dangerous; actively violent, misogynist and racist.
WikiLeaks have once again done the world a great service by publishing
smoking gun evidence that the Democratic National C
Creekside
Balancing jobsjobsjobs with destroying the planet
Brilliant one minute speech New Zealand MP James Shaw made to an almost empty house. .
Loopholes and Libya
Really? Because a mere two weeks ago, Steven Chase was reporting:
Ottawa rewrites mandate for screening arms exports "The Canadian
government has quietly watered down its own mandate for screening the
export of military goods, rewriting parts of the only substantive public
statement available on Ottawa’s responsibilities for policing foreign
sales." Previous policy on military exports :
Dear Elizabeth May
Letter to Elizabeth May from the former Green Party dcomm : I served
as Director of Communications for the Green Party of Canada during the
2011 election. Here is the letter I just sent to Elizabeth May: Dear
Elizabeth, Since leaving the employ of the Party in 2011, I have kept
quiet, avoiding commenting on or becoming involved in party activities
and policies. I do feel compelled to comment now,
Another Clark Park Day in BC
So remember this? April 2014 Natty Post: Christy Clark once served as
chairwoman of B.C. company that she has promoted since becoming premier
"The 2007 document has surfaced one week after it was revealed that the
Premier was a partner in her former husband’s lobbying firm, which
formerly listed its office at her residence and boasted such clients as
Enbridge and B.C. Rail. In the fall of 20
DAMMIT JANET!
BREAKING! Feminist™ PM Declares "What's Sauce for the Goose. . ."
DAMMIT JANET! has learned that Canada's feminist Prime Minister has
taken note that just about nobody is pleased with Health Canada's
idiotic rigorous dispensing rules for the so-called abortion pill,
Mifegymiso. From Newfoundland and Labrador , to Prince Edward Island's
pharmacists and physicians , to Manitoba and British Columbia , just
about everybody who has anything to do with reproductive h
Fatally Flawed Survey on C225, "Cassie and Molly's Law"
It's a truism because it's true: You get what you pay for. Cathay
Wagantall, sponsor of the latest sneak attack on abortion rights , C225,
glurgily nicknamed "Cassie and Molly's Law," bought six questions on a
Nanos omnibus poll . Here's her media release trumpeting the results.
According to the Nanos poll, a majority of Canadians are in favour of
Cassie and Molly’s Law, with nearly 70%
Fort McMurray Adventures
Cairn
A simple stone cairn lies not far from the Clearwater River
commemorating what was once a vitally important link in Canada's
cross-country transportation system. While having long been surpassed by
road, rail and air, the Methye Portage (also known as the Portage La
Loche) played a key role as the link between the Athabasca River and
Lake Winnipeg. At a length of around 19km (12 miles) it the lon
Sorry, But I'm Not Desperate
Have you ever gotten one of those political fliers in the mail? I
have. Normally, I don't pay them much attention as they are full of
loaded questions that reverberate within the politicians own little echo
chamber. Usually these things find their way into my recycling bin long
before they ever see the inside of my house. This particular one from
my MP, David Yurdiga, however, caught my attention
Deluge
As if dealing with the aftermath of the largest civil evacuation in
Alberta history wasn't enough, parts of the city are now dealing with
the aftermath of yesterday's deluge of rain. I suspected it was going to
be an unusual day when I was woken up early yesterday morning by some
pretty intense thunder and lightening. In a span of about 2 hours the
city reportedly received something in the neighb
Borealis Park and The Snye
For the second part of yesterday's trip, I left the Snye for a few
minutes to take a look at a small pond at Borealis Park. It was my first
time here in quite awhile and usually I can find something of interest
swimming around....more grebes and common goldeneye as it turned out. A
good reminder that yesterday's retreat from the far side of the Snye was
a good idea. Once back to the Snye, I didn'
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Mexico: A UFO in San Baltazar Atlimeyaya?
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Grafico (www.elgrafico.com.mx) Date:
08.16.2016 Article by Yohanan Díaz Vargas Mexico: A UFO in San Baltazar
Atlimeyaya? 08.13.2016-14:49 - An impressive UFO sighting was recorded
at San Baltazar Atlimeyaya, Puebla, on Saturday 6 August at 10:58 p.m.
before the startled eyes of nearly 50 people who met to commemorate the
25th anniversary of the Great UFO Wave of 1991 or
Diminutive UFO Occupants or Elementals?
Diminutive UFO Occupants or Elementals? By Scott Corrales (c) 2016
Traditional cases involving “close encounters of the third kind” are as
rare as hens’ teeth these days. These occurrences – involving contact
between alleged non-human entities and ordinary humans – filled magazine
articles and news columns in the ‘60s and ‘70s, petering out in the
1980s as UFO research went into a deep sleep, or
Mexico: Are UFOs Tampering with Volcanos?
Source: El Gráfico (Mexico) Date: 07.16.2016 Mexico: Are UFOs
Tampering with Volcanos? By Yohanan Díaz Vargas An increase in volcanic
activity is directly proportional to an increase in UFO sightings. We
are dealing with anomalous objects shaped like disks, cigars or spheres
flying over the volcanos without suffering any ill effects, as they
appear to be impervious to the high temperature in the
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters By Scott
Corrales 1991 seems so long ago that the details of what took place so
long ago have been erased from the minds of most people, but this is
surely not the case with the pilots of a Boeing 727 flight from
Barcelona to Madrid. The Iberia airliner was at an altitude of 30,000
feet when it encountered some unexpected and unwelcome co
killing Mother
Alaska - The Final American Frontier*
3 rd August 2016 March 24, 1989, 12:27 A.M.: “We’ve fetched up hard
aground…evidently we’re leaking some oil, and we’re going to be here for
a while” – Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazlewood to the U.S. Coastguard
The end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Valdez *Alaska is known as
America’s final frontier. A Google search of the term “frontier” yields
the following definition: “The extreme limit of
Dawson City and the Top of the World - Thawing Rivers and Wildfires
19th and 20th July 2016 Dawson City feels like the most remote city on
Earth. To get there by road, one can travel 532 kilometers northwest
from Whitehorse on YT2 or 298 miles northeast from Tok, Alaska on the
Taylor Highway and then YT9 (a.k.a. "the Top of the World Highway").
Neither one of these options offers easy open highway. Both involve
narrow, two-lane roads, with long areas of
Whitehorse, Yukon - A Start to Healing?
16th and 17th July 2016 Canada's Yukon Territory is one of the most
sparsely populated regions on Earth. The land area, which stretches
across 482,443 square kilometers, supports a human population of 37,566
(2015). The capital and most-populous city, Whitehorse, is tiny by city
standards, with a population of 23,276 people (2015). The city's
namesake, the Whitehorse rapids, once graced the Yukon
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