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Another Sunday, another instance of President-elect Donald Trump using
Twitter to wade into a political minefield. His target: Campaign
adversary Hillary Clinton. Although the defeated Democratic candidate
has yet to weigh in personally on the Jill Stein-led move to recount
voting results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Marc Elias, the
general counsel for Clinton's 2016 campaign, signal
A Japanese city has figured out how to create a place that will calm
your senses, while driving your heartbeat through the roof. The mayor of
Beppu, a city known for its hot springs, issued a challenge on social
media last week: If this YouTube video hits a million views, he'll build
a "spamusement park" in the city. SEE ALSO: 12 remote places to unplug
from this suffocating election campaign Tha
Almost
a century ago, 15 people were killed in Boston by a deadly and
destructive tidal wave of syrup. It had been a cold January day in the
Massachus...
Anxious to have his life back, Donald Trump donates $2 million to Jill
Stein's recount efforts. pic.twitter.com/vkWLqIrP1r — Charlie Berens
(@CharlieBerens) November 23, 2016 * * * 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 .
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Deutsche Welle: In the end, there were hardly any noticeable
differences between the two groups of mice that were fed a normal diet.
But among the groups that received a high-fat diet, the mice that drank
the sweetener solution became considerably heavier than those who drank
plain water. However, the blood sugar level was […]
Police State Closure of DAPL Protest Camp Announced by Stephen Lendman
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members and supporters face forced eviction
from their Oceti Sakowin protest encampment site, protecting sacred
ancestral land, water and wildlife habitat from destructive DAPL
construction. According to theindigenouspeoples.com, the US Army Corps
of Engineers announced closure of long ago stolen Nati
Experts say president-elect does not understand the law and must sell
businesses to avoid electoral college disaster. He seems loath to do so
Constitutional lawyers and White House ethics counsellors from
Democratic and Republican administrations have warned Donald Trump his
presidency might be blocked by the electoral college if he does not give
up ownership of at least some of his business empi
No genre is as renowned for strewing the debris of trash culture across
the cinematic landscape as the Disaster Movie. Virtually bereft of
critically-acclaimed masterpieces and instead characterized by visceral
(albeit empty) spectacles of annihilation, the genre provides audiences
with an embarrassment of riches in the "So bad, it's good" department.
Though often associated with the 1970s, the D
State broadcaster Channel 2M demonstrates how to cover up bruises with
makeup and ‘carry on with your daily life’ Women in Morocco have reacted
in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they
could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence. The segment
in the daily programme Sabahiyat, on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup
artist demonstrating how to mask marks o
Here is Question One on this year’s Constitutional Law exam. The
“electoral college” is a terrible idea that has gone wrong repeatedly
and now bids fair to destroy the Republic. a wise creation of all-wise
“Founding Fathers” who foresaw precisely this moment and set up the
“college” to protect the People from themselves. Both of the above, even
though that makes no sense at all. WTF? How did we g
A
two-day memorial and a period of “Duelo Nacional,” or national
mourning, will offer Cubans a chance to pay their respects to the
longtime leader.
Fijian ants have been farming plants for three million years, new
research from the University of Munich suggests. The ants rely on these
plants to provide them with shelter.
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Who knew that Yoda, Star Wars ’ true master of The Force, would be so
damn scared of “rats with wings”? Alas, that’s what we discover in Bad
Lip Reading’s full-length Star Wars track, “SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now).”
Read more...
Or, someday, use it for your commute. The post Flee Your Family Aboard This Flying Saucer Concept appeared first on WIRED .
Greg
Diesel Walck took this image of Jupiter and the Moon from Moyock, North
Carolina as a thunderstorm drifted across the horizon on August 5,
2016.
The revelation that Facebook exaggerated its own reach shows there are
real flaws in the narrative about what Facebook—and digital
advertising—can do. The post Facebook's Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its
Plan to Rule Advertising appeared first on WIRED .
As China’s most populous city, Shanghai is well known for its sprawling
urban landscape, bustling streets, and iconic skyline. Yet nestled
between the towering skyscrapers, the residents of Shanghai’s historic
Shikumen neighborhoods experience a different side of the city. In this
captivating short, JT Singh explores the chaotic and vibrant street life
in some of the city's most charming neighbor
You never know what the singing superstar's visit will bring. This time
she brought an impressive set of… bling! From: TheEllenShow
Ellen sent her executive producer to learn some martial arts moves from
the most decorated athlete in tae kwon do history. Ready, set, spar!
From: TheEllenShow
Full screen with good speakers or headphone for best experience. A 4K
version is available. Hand : " The terminal part of the human arm
located below the forearm, used for grasping and holding and consisting
of the wrist, palm, four fingers, and an opposable thumb ". My purpose
was to not cover the entire subject of hands. I think that the
possibilities are way too wide. I was motsly interested o
A short film about a Dutch woman who secretly helps refugees in the
southwest of Turkey, until she is confronted with the son she abandoned
years before. Precursor to the feature film FOREIGNERS, currently in
development, in production 2017-18. starring Carine Crutzen, Matthijs
van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Hazal Selçuk, Reha Soysal, Aali Erguvanli, and
Irmak Okcebe written and directed by Jordi Wijnal
Lofoten, Norway, has a mountainous landscape that may make you wonder
if it's real or just a Hollywood movie set. This stunning landscape
attracted filmmaker Michael Fletcher to film it by drone throughout
midnattssol, or midnight sun, a natural phenomenon that occurs for
several weeks during the summer in which the sun appears to never go
below the horizon. During this time, the Earth's axis ang
New in The Corbett Report
So reddit has banned the pizzagate subreddit...but the investigation
continues. A pizzagate forum has sprung up on voat.co and awareness of
the scandal is spreading on YouTube, Twitter and other social media
outlets. And now The Corbett Report community can collate information on
the pizzagate scandal in this new open source investigation.
Yes, corbettreport.com has made this new, mysterious,
anonymously-authored "propaganda list" of websites to watch out for in
the era of #FakeNews and Russians under every rock. And yes, the list is
as ridiculous as that sounds. Join me today as I look into the latest
pathetic attempt by a flailing establishment to bolster their
discredited mouthpiece media organs and counter the ascendant alterna
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This week on New World Next Week: As the MSM screams "Fake News!" they
fail to realize that 4 fingers are pointing back at themselves.
Meanwhile, free humanity is getting ready to purge the real liars with
#UnfollowFriday.
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Today James talks to Nomi Prins, author of books like All The
Presidents Bankers, about her recent article "The Central Bank Power
Shift from West to East, Game of Thrones Style." We talk about the
changing economic and monetary landscape and how the locus of central
bank power is shifting to the East, with playe
This week on New World Next Week: As the MSM screams "Fake News!" they
fail to realize that 4 fingers are pointing back at themselves.
Meanwhile, free humanity is getting ready to purge the real liars with
#UnfollowFriday.
This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order, James is joined
by Prof CJ of the Dangerous History podcast to explore James Ellroy’s
“American Tabloid.” What do you get when you have a novel with fictional
FBI/CIA/Mafia/Anti-Castro Cuban stooges embroiled in a years-long mess
that ends up with the assassination of the president? A more plausible
scenario than 99% of the documentaries and
New in The EnvironmentaList
Researchers say warmer air and sea surface could lead to record lows of sea ice at north pole next year
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
Deep
in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental, two new magnolias were waiting for a
conservationist turned photographer and a botanist to find them
First lions, tigers, and bears transferred to region’s largest wildlife sanctuary in Jordan
New in The Rules of Exposition
If you look up loan and lend you'll find some gibberish about how those
words are interchangeable now, but once upon a time they were not. You
can lend me money or loan me money, these days it's all the same. I need
a word for the act of lending, and a different word for the thing
itself, the loan. Everybody knows what a "loan" is: I don't think anyone
would call it a "lend". We're not that far d
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I'm feeling rattled by Facebook, no longer sure if there's any point in
sharing serious things there. It was the Trump election that did me in -
things just got too weird. But then I see a story like this and I want
to share it with people, because it's so damn interesting, so what can I
do? When I want to be able to find something that I think is important
enough that I'll probably want to track
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
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"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
New in Allen L Roland's Weblog
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
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’
(via Iceland Monitor )
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 )
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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
New in Big Dan's Big Blog
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
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
New in Creekside
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
New in DAMMIT JANET!
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
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
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November 17, 2016 | : by Roberto Rodriguez By now a great majority of
the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political
hangover any of us have ever experienced. Yet no one is feeling this
hangover more so than the undocumented community. This election
represents both the rise of fascism, and, literally, an existential
threat to students and their families nationwide, includin
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
New in Fort McMurray Adventures
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.
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
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
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.
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