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President-elect Donald J. Trump's ongoing one-sided feud with a weekly sketch comedy series took on a new wrinkle Sunday morning. The incoming United States president bemoaned Saturday Night Live 's "one-sided, biased" (presumably political) leanings in a Sunday tweet. He capped off the blast with a question: "Equal time for us?" SEE ALSO: Trump’s America will also be a new golden age of activism
Just days after defending Donald Trump , Kanye West called out Beyoncé and Jay Z on stage before ending his show early in Sacramento. West went on a Kanye West-style rant on Saturday evening after showing up to a concert 90 minutes late. Three songs into his performance, West stopped the show and went on a rant where he claims Beyoncé hurt him. SEE ALSO: Kanye West basically outlined his 2020 pre
A faulty fire suppression system managed to submerge a large area under a sea of white foam on Friday. Locals were left perplexed as the thick foam sp...
Via: CBC News: The agricultural scientist, then at Dalhousie University, helped test Dorgan’s seaweed mix, and discovered it reduced the methane in the cows’ burps and farts by about 20 per cent. Kinley knew he was on to something, so he did further testing with 30 to 40 other seaweeds. That led him to a […]
* * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs , usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie .
Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, pro-Western UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura made Damascus an offer it refused - dividing Aleppo, letting US-supported terrorists called “moderates” control eastern areas. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem slapped him down diplomatically, rejecting his outrageous proposal, saying: “We he
Under pressure to uphold liberal values in a climate of rising populism, Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for re-election next year.
‘These aren’t the times for self-loathing liberals to seek to understand the leaders of the global far right, or their supporters’ The danger in meeting politicians is that they seem all right and then, as a comedian, it is much harder to summon up the manufactured anger required to despise them for personal commercial gain. I have a mortgage. I can’t afford to find myself thinking things like “Yo
My classroom becomes a totalitarian state every school year toward the end of October. In preparation for teaching 1984 to seniors, I announce the launch of a new program aimed at combating senioritis, a real disease with symptoms that include frequent unexplained absences, indifferent reading, and shoddy work. I tell each class that another class is largely to blame for the problem and require,
The white nationalist group held a conference in D.C. this weekend after Trump's unlikely victory for president. Now, the controversial believers say they can be "an intellectual vanguard" for Trump.
She was 19 when they met on the set of Star Wars – and began a three-month affair. Fisher comes clean about the most ‘obsessive, confused’ time of her life • Scroll down for an exclusive extract from Fisher’s memoir Perhaps the most surprising thing is that it has taken Carrie Fisher so long to fess up. The famously candid actor and memoirist has been asked numerous times whether there was a real
Donald Trump's chief strategist and ex-Breitbart news executive Steve Bannon has the power to shape Mr. Trump's legacy. How does he see the real estate mogul impacting America?
An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics. The post Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions appeared first on WIRED .
The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives.
Ever wonder why CNN seems to constantly repeat itself with its coverage of the 2016 election and the future president of the United States? Turns out, it’s because they’re on a loop. Let’s hope the Man in Black doesn’t show up. Read more...
For decades, political scientist Gene Sharp has promoted nonviolent strategies for countering oppression -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
For decades, political scientist Gene Sharp has promoted nonviolent strategies for countering oppression -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Physicians are hired and fired by the team, not the athletes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Full CGI Music Video for KEØMA. Directed and animated by Dirk Rauscher dirkrauscher.de After performing some live visuals for the Band KEØMA in September 2016, they commissioned me to produce a simple Video for the Track „Gone“. Being inspired by the Song and without limitations, I picked up some personal style frames and woke them up, literally. In this way, the result is not only a music video
Baratunde Thurston investigates the disproportionate number of arrests of black residents for non-violent offenses in Gretna, Louisiana, and how the city racks up revenue from court fines and fees 16 times the national median. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Explorer: http://bit.ly/MoreExplorer ➡ EXPLORER AIRS MONDAYS 10/9c About Explorer: Explorer, the longest-running docum
Few Westerners have spent as much time in North Korea as National Geographic photographer David Guttenfelder, and no Western photographer has had better access to one of the world's most secretive countries. Working for the Associated Press in Pyongyang, North Korea, Guttenfelder has made more than 40 trips to the country over the years, documenting the lives of North Koreans and revealing candid
2016, 8.23 min, 16.9, 1080p24, Stereo Web Preview Only sound: Byron Scullin viola: Erkki Veltheim This file is for preview purposes only and is not to be exhibited or distributed in any form without the written permission of the artist or representing gallery. Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne; Starkwhite, Auckland; FuturePerfect, Singapore. © Daniel Crooks 2016. All rights reserved. Cast: Daniel
When Ellen heard about the amazing teachers and students of the Center for Advanced Learning (CAL) and how they continue to defy the odds with positivity, inspiration and success, she knew she had to do something special! From: TheEllenShow
Google’s Daydream View VR headset has a unique look and feel, but it took a lot of work to get there. Subscribe: https://goo.gl/G5RXGs We go to Mountain View for a behind-the-scenes look at its development. Check out our full video catalog: https://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: https://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Fo
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-11-20%20Newsbud%20Roundtable.mp3"][/audio] In this week’s edition of Newsbud’s Roundtable Spiro Skouras is Joined by Newsbud Founder Sibel Edmonds, Newsbud Sr. Producer Kurt Nimmo and James Corbett of Corbett Report to discuss potential candidates of the Trump Cabinet. We also discuss the indoctrination process of the youth in public schools and S
You'll no doubt remember the quotes from that 1998 60 Minutes piece on Soros from Episode 113 of The Corbett Report podcast. Well guess what? That clip actually emerged online this week. Let me walk you through a few of the highlights.
So you say you want a revolution? Well don't worry, it's already happening and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the political game that the ruling oligarchs entice you to play once every four years. As the radical decentralization transforms the economy and finance and manufacturing and the media itself, the only question is whether or not you're taking part in it. Yes, the revolution is happ
Do you have the sinking feeling that democracy is not what it's cracked up to be? Do you insist that Trump is #NotMyPresident? Well don't despair, get active. Take the #ClintonPledge, and pass it along to your friends. It may not be as scary as you think.
Do you have the sinking feeling that Trump may start backing off his promises now that he's in power. Is there the niggling doubt that the banksters, criminals and party insiders he's surrounding himself with may not follow through on that draining of the swamp? Never fear! You can show you're a person of integrity by taking the #TrumpPledge.

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Deep in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental, two new magnolias were waiting for a conservationist turned photographer and a botanist to find them
Birds, plants, and groundwater continue to benefit from pilot effort to revive the Colorado River delta, says report
As rising seas swallow islands, turn farmlands fallow, everyday life becomes a challenge
Keeping climate change in check requires a halt to new oil and gas leasing
Decades-long conversation effort struck the right balance between visitor use and habitat protection
Ray of Hope Prize winners mimic Andean nurse plant to help restore depleted soils

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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

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This feels like an important piece. It's a New York Times commentary from Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science who writes for the Times on occasion. Her point is that massive information dumps like the ones Wikileak is known for, one of which is currently making life miserable for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary C
"International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Report 14 Nov. 2016 p. 32 “…Additionally, the Office engaged with the law faculty at Hebrew University….” LOL! On Land Stolen from the Palestinians in violation of the Laws of War and thus a War Crime. Meanwhile the ICC refused to go to Gaza to investigate the situation there after Israel’s slaughter of over 2000+ Palestinians in Gaza. So the War
This article was first publishe on Dissident Voice. By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD Summary: I briefly describe the anthropological origin and recent statutory embodiments of human rights of individuals. I show that the modern “democratic” state moderates the rights of individuals by both: (1) violating the said rights in order to maintain and enforce the societal dominance hierarchy, and (2)
This article was first published on Dissident Voice. By Denis G. Rancourt, PhDSummary: I argue that in the many societal battles that serve to repair continually arising unjust features of the societal hierarchy, individuals must respect two fundamental “rules of war”: (1) Not to violate the natural right of individual self-determination (control over one’s body and mind) and (2) not to violate
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 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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Make no mistake about my words, America is fast approaching a spiritual death with the election of Donald Trump and no one describes the causes and proportions of this eminent spiritual blackout better than teacher and philosopher, Cornel West. President Obama has, in essence, put an African face on American neoliberal Imperialism and Cornel describes our spiritual death throes with a knowing can
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
President-elect Donald Trump with attitude I originally posted this column in May, 2016 and posited that America had achieved the pinnacle of H.L.Mencken’s famous quote about the eventual election of a moron with the disputed election of George W Bush but that was just a rung above the growing possibility of a President Trump. Donald Trump represents the last desperate hope of an American elector
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II . In the shocked aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, I think it imperative that we hear some stern advice from our former queen ~ to prepare ourselves for the consequences of our action and the difficult days that well may lay ahead. See video ~ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38318-a-divided-nation-as-trump-wins-electoral-college-clinton-wins-popular-vo
The political circus of 2016 is winding down and the clowns are doing their best to make it all seem relevant as they engage in mock battle trading insults and innuendoes while many of the spectators, including myself, sense the Republic is in its final death throes. Our great 240 year experiment in Democracy is coming to a close as the plutocracy asserts itself through Citizens United and only t
The politics of fear is ruling this Presidential election and it's time for our conscience and self-respect to take over and erode fear in the process. There is no better reminder in this process than Chris Hedges whose activist voice to power echoes those of Amy Goodman and others, including myself, who know that this is our moment in 2016 and our conscience and self-respect, not our fears, must

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* as predicted by my cat Caligula. In more detail, Caligula is predicting that it will look like Clinton is winning as the first results come in, but eventually it will be a Trump victory.
Kevin Simler writes about crony beliefs : the human brain has to strike an awkward balance between two different reward systems: Meritocracy , where we monitor beliefs for accuracy out of fear that we’ll stumble by acting on a false belief; and Cronyism , where we don’t care about accuracy so much as whether our beliefs make the right impressions on others. And so we can roughly (with caveats we’
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People generally don’t think they are biased, and the less biased someone thinks they are the more biased they probably are. (via AI Safety )
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
By MARC McDONALD At long last, the ugly, bitter 2016 presidential election campaign is over. And we'd like to extend our congratulations to Hillary Clinton, the winner of the election. After a hard-fought campaign, she prevailed over Donald Trump, getting nearly 400,000 more votes than her challenger. The American people have spoken. Unfortunately, the Electoral College has also spoken. And this

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People seem to be having a brain cramp and are forgetting that if you vote for Trump, you are also getting these rightwing media deplorables, racists, white supremacists, Archie & Edith Bunker's, Archie Bunkers, off-the-wall paranoid KOOKY conspiracy theorists, and more: In the top collage, 2nd picture top row, there's racist woman-hater Rush Limbaugh who never met a black group he didn't like. H
A Sucker's Rally Like No Other By David Stockman. Posted On Friday, November 11th, 2016 This week has seen a political earthquake followed by a financial eruption. But don't be fooled. The Dow's 500 point surge amounts to a Sucker's Rally like no other; it was just a case of raging robo-machines determined to tag an all-time high on the charts After all, what happened Tuesday night is that for al
Chop, Chop, Choppin' In Harm's Way By David Stockman. Posted On Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 The stock market has been chopping sideways for the last 100 days, but it's not evidence of a pause that refreshes. What is actually happening is that the smart money is getting out of dodge---even as the clueless day traders and headline-stalking algos keep the bubble inflated on purely speculative fume
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/28/2016 at 00:09:51 Russia Calls the War Party's Bluff By Pepe Escobar opednews.com Headlined to H2 10/28/16 Snowden/Obama -- Double Focus Prism Cold War 2.0 has reached unprecedented hysterical levels. And yet a hot war is not about to break out -- before or after the November 8 US presidential election. From the Clinton (cash) machine -- supported by a neocon/neoliberalcon th
Tweets like the above appeared today following Minister Monsef's Q&A at her Victoria BC public consultation. Her remarks echo those of Justin Trudeau earlier this week giving rise to the fear that the Liberals are backtracking on implementing electoral reform and their campaign promise that 2011 would be "the last election under FPtP". I've transcribed her responses to the two relevant questions
Results of the public consultation on electoral reform in the Papineau riding " most were favourable to the idea of a proportional and mixed-proportional voting system" Discussion of electoral reform in Canada suffered from an almost total four month legacy media blackout on the more than 40 Electoral Reform Committee meetings held in June through October hearing from over 300 witnesses. Ditto th
There are many whackadoodles among the fetus fetishist set, but Frank Pavone of Priests for Life is one of the whackier. He was one of the vultures hanging around not-quite-dead Terri Shiavo and practically did a jig when Dr. Tiller was assassinated. He's been in trouble with his titular bosses, the Catlick Church, for among other things, financial improprieties. But just before The Tragedy, he ou
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
I said back here that I would report on any replies from the "100 Who Care" groups I blogged about. Only one has. And I had a private conversation with a member of another group in Atlantic Canada. The first thing to know: not all groups operate the same way. I got a reply from an organizer of 100 Women Who Care Ottawa , who used only her first name. In my initial email I advised that I would be b
My, my. It seems that there is a "Wild West" of unlicensed, unregulated fake clinics offering bogus advice and treatment. Ha. You thought I was talking Fake Abortion Clinics. Nope. Fake Concussion Clinics. It seems anyone can start a hotline, or set up a clinic offering to treat concussions, a brain injury. There is no active federal or provincial oversight. It's an essentially unregulated field,
Up here in smug Canada -- and getting smugger by the minute as the US election approaches -- it's not often that the US has us beaten on any aspect of abortion care. Well, they've got us all beat to hell on medical abortion . Although many limitations remain, innovative dispensing efforts in some states, restricted access to surgical abortions in others and greater awareness boosted medication abo
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
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
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
Historical Appreciation: Reflecting on the 2016 Presidential Election November 11, 2016 | : by Roberto Rodriguez On election night, I received hundreds of messages from friends and colleagues from throughout the country. Most seemed to be in utter disbelief. When I got to campus in the morning, I went into the student lounge where I came upon students who were crying. All day, everyone kept askin
As we all know, for probably three-fourths of the electorate ― between women and people of color ― the choice for president should have been a no-brainer. Essentially, the choice was made for us; that’s how many people one candidate intentionally insulted. Along with that, promises by politicians don’t impress. For many, day-to-day issues matter more than slick propaganda. For example, this past
October 30, 2016 by Roberto Rodriguez The historic battle over the 1170-mile Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) has consequences far beyond the environmental danger posed by what is deep below the Earth’s surface — what is referred to as “zuzeca sape” or the black snake — or the millions of barrels of oil that are slated to move from North Dakota to Illinois. This includes Lakota, Dakota and Nakota l

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If I could only get to one concert this season it would have to be this past Saturday evening's concert with the Calgary Philharmonic. Featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4 and the Mozart Requiem, I truly would have walked to Calgary if I had to. Fortunately, Greyhound took me instead. I spent a couple of nights in the city so that I would be well-rested and focused. I also used mu time to pick
By the time I reached Prince's Island Park, the last place I wanted to get to before my weekend concert, the light was really starting to fade on me. Again, I didn't see anything new but it gave me a chance to have some camera fun and grab a few close ups. I had no shortage of willing subjects.
After visiting the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary I headed to an urban park closer to the downtown. I didn't expect to see much in terms of birds (and I didn't) but it gave me an opportunity to play around with my camera and see a bit of wildlife I don't usually see close up. There actually IS a common merganser swimming around out there. Friendly neighbourhood squirrel. These little guys were all over
After a series of delays, many of which brought on by the May fire, I was finally able to get down to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary this past weekend. This place had long been on my radar. and while I doubted I would see anything new for my year list at least I got there, which was just fine with me. While it was quite overcast, it didn't rain and the temperature was a balmy 12C so I wa
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.

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