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FAVORITES
Veteran Meteorologist talks of culture of intimidation — skeptics hide at National Weather Service, NOAA
CFACT has a report from a 40 year career meteorologist who alleges that skeptics are silenced through intimidation and threats at the National Weather Service (NWS). He also says data is “altered for political purposes” and that he was advised nearly forty years ago that he could find fame and fortune with CO2. ““When I was a graduate student I had a professor come up to me, and he said in the la
A Nonnative Tree, an Invasive Beetle, and the Endangered Bird Caught in the Middle
The EnvironmentaList / 23h
Court says federal government must clean up the mess it helped make of riparian ecosystems in the US Southwest
Climate change causes beaches to grow by 3,660 square kilometers
Since 1984 humans have gushed forth 64% of our entire emissions from fossil fuels. (Fully 282,000 megatons of deplorable carbon “pollution”.) During this time, satellite images show that 24% of our beaches shrank, while 28% grew. Thus we can say that thanks to the carbon apocalypse there are 3,660 sq kms more global beaches now than there were thirty years ago. Yes. It’s that bad. The encroachmen
BLOGGER-FOLLOWING
Brooklyn Beckham surprised his dad on his birthday and the reaction is just so pure
Surprises might not be everyone's cup of tea, but David Beckham's reaction to his birthday surprise is the sweetest thing on the internet today. The former footballer was just having a casual birthday dinner when his eldest son Brooklyn rocked up out of the blue to surprise him. SEE ALSO: David Beckham hilariously trolls his son Brooklyn on Instagram live Victoria Beckham, who was in on the surpr
Thanos: I am not the villain here. Stop saying I'm the villain.
Hey it's me, Thanos. I have a bone to pick with all of you. I'm being vilified and mocked by a lot of people online right now and I am not just going to sit there and take it from you people. It's unjust, it's unfair, and it's completely uncalled for. SEE ALSO: Who's who in 'Avengers: Infinity War' ( Spoilers in case you haven't caught up on the news about the so-called " Infinity War " that just
'Haunted' homestead is scaring away tourists
The Oakabella Homestead in Australia is trying to shake its haunted status in an effort to attract more visitors. Built back in 1851 around a decade b...
CIA Emails to Journalists Don’t Have to be Released to Public, Judge Rules
Via: McClatchy: The CIA can selectively divulge classified information to selected reporters in emails yet withhold that information from other journalists or members of the public when they seek the same information under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge in New York has ruled. … Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of […]
Mercedes Gives Up on Home Energy Storage, Can’t Compete with Tesla
Man oh man. Nobody said it was going to be easy. Via: GTM: Mercedes-Benz will stop manufacturing residential batteries and dissolve its U.S. energy subsidiary, ending a short-lived challenge to Tesla’s energy storage empire.
NEWS
'My whole life has been a lie': Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish
Turks don’t mince their words as they relish news that Ikea’s famous dish is not Swedish Turks have reacted with undisguised glee to what many have described as an official – and certainly long overdue – confession from Stockholm that Sweden’s signature national dish is, in fact, Turkish. “Those famous Swedish meatballs you get in Ikea are actually Turkish, admits Swedish government,” tweeted TRT
Iraqi Artifacts Once Bought by Hobby Lobby Will Return Home
Immigration and Customs Enforcement returned thousands of smuggled Iraqi artifacts to the Iraq government, which plans to send them to a Baghdad museum.
Mueller Reportedly Considering Appropriate Thank-You Gift for Giuliani
Andy Borowitz jokes that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is deliberating what token of appreciation to send the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, after his interview with Sean Hannity.
Home Office official tells man facing deportation: 'My job is to piss you off'
Secretly filmed footage shows official telling man: system is ‘working because it’s pissing you off’ The Home Office is investigating undercover footage filmed at one of its reporting centres showing an official telling a man facing deportation that his job is to “piss him off” as part of the government’s challenging environment. Related: The Guardian view on May’s immigration regime: unjust, inh
Trump’s Stormy Daniels tweets show how easy he is to blackmail
A man who dispenses cash for secrets this easily is a risky man to have in office. In a tweetstorm this morning aimed at containing the fallout from Wednesday night’s revelation by Rudy Giuliani that Donald Trump repaid Michael Cohen for hush money Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels , the president attempted to thread the various legal needles involved in trying to explain how this arrangement did not
US farm bill: the food stamp showdown
House Republicans want to trim SNAP funding, putting bipartisan agreement at risk.
SCIENCE
Deadpool 2 Just Released a Music Video From Canadian Queen Celine Dion
GIF Oh my stars, it’s Deadpool and Celine. Holy shit, Deadpool. Every time I think I’m done, you pull me back in. With goddamn Celine Dion this time? The legendary artist has released her first English single in two years... and yes, it’s about Deadpool 2 . The music video for “Ashes” debuted this morning on Good Morning America, complete with a sexy dancing Deadpool and Dion’s signature “up to 1
No sperm or egg required: mouse proto-embryo made in the lab
Scientists have for the first time created embryo-like structures in the lab from stem cells, without recourse to eggs or sperm, they reported Wednesday.
A Nuclear Reactor for Space Missions Passes Final Major Ground Tests
Scientists, engineers and reporters gathered at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to announce the latest results of the Kilopower nuclear power plant project.
Mineral in lunar meteorite suggests water was once on the moon
A team of researchers led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University has found evidence in a lunar meteorite that water once existed on the moon. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the team describes their study of the meteorite and why they believe it offers evidence of water on the moon.
What the gorilla microbiome tells us about evolution and human health
A study of the microbiomes of wild gorillas and chimpanzees offers insights into the evolution of the human microbiome and might even have implications for human health.
To bond with your kids, turn on some music?
Young adults who listen to music with their parents during childhood—and especially during adolescence—report having better relationships with their moms and dads as they enter young adulthood, according to a new study. “If you have little kids, and you play music with them, that helps you be closer to them, and later in life will make you closer to them,” says study coauthor Jake Harwood, profes
YOUTUBE
America Inside Out – White Anxiety | Full Episode
Katie Couric travels to rural and Rust Belt America to examine the real roots of anger and frustration among America’s white working class. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ America Inside Out on Wednesdays 10/9c About America Inside Out: Inspired by her own personal journey of making National Geographic’s critically acclaimed, groundbreaking documentary Gender Revolution, Katie Couric
Ellen Surprises an Amazing Family from Philadelphia
Ellen gave superfan Amber Connally the surprise of a lifetime by inviting her single mom and younger brothers to the show all the way from Philadelphia. Ellen and her friends at Walmart had another surprise for this family that has been devoted to giving to those in need. From: TheEllenShow
A Garbage Story
Meet Nick DiMola, a bonafide trash connoisseur. He loves his job and he loves garbage. Over 30 years in the garbage business, he has collected a museum’s worth of old and rare items, most of it from the estates of dead people. With every piece of trash that he saves from the landfill, a piece of history lives on. Director: Olivier Bernier Producer: Patrick Solomon Starring: Nick Dimola Executive
Smartphone detox with minimalist phones
Our smartphones are distracting and stressful, but they seem necessary. Michael Zelenko tests out four distraction-free phones, ranging from the palm-sized Jelly phone with internet capability to the business card-sized Light Phone that solely makes phone calls. Find out if one of these phones could fit your lifestyle, or if maps and social media apps are too important for you. Note: this video w
Ellen Features Awesome Dance Dares
Ellen recently launched her Dance Dare Challenge, and she showed off a few of her favorite submissions so far. If you want a chance to win $10,000, film yourself dancing behind a stranger without them noticing, then download the musical.ly app and upload the video using the hashtag #EllensDanceDare! From: TheEllenShow
A Ghost Story - 10 Pages
Behind the scenes footage from A Ghost Story Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, David Lowery, Andrew Droz Palermo a24films.com/films/a-ghost-story Shot & Edited by Shawn Bannon Cast: Shawn Bannon Tags: Casey Affleck , A Ghost Story , Rooney Mara , Andrew Droz Palermo , David Lowery and A24
THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
The Case of the Stolen Succulents
The EnvironmentaList / 2d
Native hipster plants are at center of California poaching crisis
Bioremediation Efforts Mushroom in the Aftermath of California’s North Bay Fires
The EnvironmentaList / 2d
Ecologists deploy fungi in Sonoma to try to address toxic run-off from ash
Wolves and Wolfdogs are Not Dogs and We Shouldn’t Want Them to Be
The EnvironmentaList / 6d
Why bringing these wild animals home is a bad idea
For Baby Sea Turtles, Beaches Are Becoming Safer But Ocean Threats Persist
The EnvironmentaList / 7d
Researchers struggle to assess impacts of undersea hazards like plastic pollution and overfishing
For Flint Mother, There’s No Stopping Until All US Kids Have Safe Drinking Water
The EnvironmentaList / 8d
“I don’t want other families to go through what we went through,” says LeeAnne Walters
THE CORBETT REPORT
Episode 334 – Truth At Last: The Assassination of Martin Luther King
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode334-lq.mp3"][/audio] On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered a passionate speech at Riverside Church in New York staking out his opposition to the war in Vietnam. One year later to the day, he was assassinated. Now, 50 years after that fateful day, the truth about the assassination of Dr. King can finally be told.
Syria Chemical Weapons Attack: An Open Source Investigation
No sooner has the idea of a US withdrawal from Syria been floated than Assad launched a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus...or so we are being asked to believe. But this is not the first time we have been lied to about chemical weapons claims. What is the evidence about this situation, and what are the latest developments with regard to the international response? Corbett Report m
Episode 335 – Solutions: Spontaneous Order
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode335-lq.mp3"][/audio] When you hear the word "order" do you automatically think of government? What if I were to tell you there’s an entirely different conception of societal order, one that doesn’t revolve around hierarchy but in fact specifically refutes it? Well there is, and it’s called “spontaneous order.”
Interview 1353 – Dr. William Pepper on the Assassination of Martin Luther King
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-04-06%20William%20Pepper.mp3"][/audio] An interview with Dr. William F. Pepper, Esq., on his four decade long investigation into the assassination of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and his third book on the subject, The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. This interview was conducted by Dan Dicks of Press
Interview 1354 – Dan Dicks on Steemit, DTube, and the Alt Media
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-04-11%20Dan%20Dicks.mp3"][/audio] In this inaugural edition of the Social Media Alternatives series we talk to Dan Dicks of Press For Truth about how Steemit and DTube are helping independent media fund their journalism in this age of GooTube demonetization, Facebook censorship and Twitter shadowbans.
Truth At Last: The Assassination of Martin Luther King
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered a passionate speech at Riverside Church in New York staking out his opposition to the war in Vietnam. One year later to the day, he was assassinated. Now, 50 years after that fateful day, the truth about the assassination of Dr. King can finally be told.
WWF - LATEST NEWS
'Business unusual' must be the mantra in Bonn as UN climate talks resume next week
WWF - Latest News / 8d
BERLIN, Germany (25 April 2018) - As the 2018 climate talks kick off under the auspices of the UN next week, 'business unusual' must be the mantra delegations need heard resoundingly in Bonn, says WWF. Speaking ahead of the start of the meeting, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF's global climate and energy programme leader , said the window of opportunity to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C if fas
Hope for critically endangered Mekong river dolphins as population increases for first time
WWF - Latest News / 10d
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 23, 2018 – After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from a WWF and Government of Cambodia census released today show that the population of critically endangered river dolphins in the Mekong has risen from 80 to 92 in the past two years – the first increase since records began more than twenty years ago. Effective river patrolling by teams of river guar
Global Shipping Sector Steps Up, Sets Climate Targets And Bans Use Of Heavy Fuel Oil In Arctic
WWF - Latest News / 20d
LONDON , UK ( 13 April 2018 ) - In a landmark step forward for the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) today agreed to climate targets for the sector, as part of its first comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction strategy. The global maritime regulator also agreed to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic, a region on the frontline of the im
As Taiwan announces ivory ban, WWF urges governments across Asia to join conservation efforts
WWF - Latest News / 28d
Nairobi, 5 April 2018 - WWF welcomes Taiwan's announcement on its plan to ban domestic ivory trade effective starting 1 January 2020. The decision comes after the game-changing policy from Mainland China, the US and Hong Kong SAR, three of the world's largest ivory trade markets, to proactively shut down their domestic ivory markets. These new policies demonstrate the political momentum building
Unprecedented collaring effort aims to protect Tanzania's threatened elephants
WWF - Latest News / 29d
DAR ES SALAAM – In Tanzania, the government, with support from WWF, has launched the country's largest ever elephant collaring effort to protect its dwindling elephant population. With almost 90 per cent of the elephants lost over the last 40 years in the Selous Game Reserve, a World Heritage site, enhancing rangers' ability to guard the remaining ones from poaching is essential to rebuilding the
WMTC
reading can make you a better person. here's evidence.
wmtc / 25d
Celebrate #EmpathyDay with a good book. Last year, a prosecutor in the US state of Virginia asked a judge to hand down an unusual sentence. Five teens had defaced a historic structure -- a Jim Crow- era schoolhouse for African-American children -- with swastikas and other racist graffiti. The judge agreed with the prosecutor -- and she sentenced the teens to reading . The teens were to choose boo
AMUSED CYNICISM
ANGOLA 3 NEWS
WATCH LIVE: Robert King and Albert Woodfox in Los Angeles on April 9, 7:30 pm
Angola 3 News / 26d
The April 9, 7:30 pm event with Robert King and Albert Woodfox in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Auditorium - Central Library will be streamed live for those who can not attend in person. Robert and Albert are also be speaking in Los Angeles at an April 7 event hosted by The Main , and moderated by artist and longtime A3 supporter Rigo 23.
ARMSCONTROLWONK
A Nobel Prize for Brinkmanship?
Quote of the week: “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — Moshe Dayan A bandwagon is underway urging the selection committee for the Nobel Peace Prize to make Donald Trump its newest Laureate. Some of the President’s harshest critics have joined Trump supporters on this …
KCN-eh? April’s other North Korea Developments – Part 2
ArmsControlWonk / 2h
A Canadian reviews the last few weeks of North Korea news with a special guest. Andrea chats with Antoine Bondaz from the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. They dissect the optics and outcomes of the recent inter-Korean summit, analyse the responses, and look at some of the stories you may have missed amongst the flashbulbs. Links …
Netanyahu and the Atomic Archive
Bibi showed off Iran’s bomb. And its pretty crappy. The slide show added some titillating details to what the world already knew about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and, in doing so, made the case for why the JCPOA is so important. The real news was not the documents or their provenance, but what they revealed …
The Logic of Nuclear Superiority
Quotes of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll show you a Secretary of Defense who ought to be impeached.” — Caspar Weinberger, New York Times, August 24, 1982 “Strategic flexibility, unless wedded to a plausible theory of how to win a war …
A Passive U.S. Approach to the Next India-Pakistan Crisis?
Quote of the week: “Escalation is inherent in war both because the desire to win and the need not to lose.” – V.R. Raghavan, “Limited War and Escalation Control,” Nonproliferation Review, 2001. One common thread among the comings and goings of top national security advisers to President Trump is that none have much experience with …
Trump and Kim Upend Diplomatic Protocol
Quote of the week: “Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.” ― George P. Shultz When the ice begins to thaw after an endless freeze, expect the unexpected. Donald Trump …
BUCKDOG
Mr. Singh .. Please Leave Before You Take The New Democratic Party Down With Your Amateurish Attempts At Leadership
Buckdog / 30d
I have lost confidence in Jagmeet Singh as Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/03/27/more-risk-than-reward-in-six-months-of-jagmeet-singhs-ndp-leadership.html
WIDE ASLEEP IN AMERICA
Citations Needed, Episode 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left
Police officers surround anti-THAAD protesters in Seongju, South Korea, April 23, 2018. (Credit: Yonhap) When Americans read about the Korean "conflict" in the Western press, the articles are populated almost entirely with Serious Western Talking Heads, weapons contractor-funded think tank "fellows," and former and current U.S. military brass. Who's never consulted, much less heeded, are
Citations Needed, Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?
MSNBC is by far the most influential mainstream media outlet on the American left. It sets the tone and defines the boundary for what is acceptable discourse among American liberals. But major issues the left is generally thought to care about - imperial war, worker strikes, Palestine, climate change - are almost entirely absent from coverage, as the network increasingly looks like a 24-hour
Citations Needed, Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican
Wide Asleep in America / 15d
Jeffrey Goldberg, Leon Wieseltier, and James Bennet The unlikely rise of Trump in the past three years has created a chasm in the Republican party: those who embrace the President’s wild, unorthodox, nativist style and those who––with much posturing and self congratulation––reject his brand of conservatism. The latter group, generally called “NeverTrump” Republicans occupies a special,
Citations Needed, Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
Wide Asleep in America / 27d
Students at Middlebury College disrupt speaker Charles Murray. The horror stories are ubiquitous: a theater group at Wesleyan won’t perform The Vagina Monologues because it’s offensive to trans women! Oberlin is banning classes featuring white authors! Rich, sheltered college students, increasingly indoctrinated by radical Marxist professors, are asking for safe spaces! But how much merit
CHERCHEZ LA VERITE
The Period of American Dominance Has Passed. Russian Missile Tech has Made America’s Trillion Dollar Navy Obsolete. Russia’s new missiles can be launched from thousands of kilometers away, are unstoppable, and it takes just one to sink a destroyer and just two to sink an aircraft carrier.
Cherchez la Verite / 2d
The Period of American Dominance Has Passed April 29, 2018 | Categories: Guest Contributions | The Period of American Dominance Has Passed Russian Missile Tech has Made America’s Trillion Dollar Navy Obsolete Dmitry Orlov For the past 500 years European nations—Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, France and, briefly, Germany—were able to plunder much of the planet by projecting their naval
Here Paul Craig Roberts analyzes why the US Secretary of War, Mattis backed down on Trump's illicit plan to attack Syria. He knew that if the U.S. Navy ships were to approach the Syrian shores and open fire, they would be destroyed by the Russians.
Cherchez la Verite / 18d
Are We Over the US/UK Fomented Crisis In Syria? April 14, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Are We Over the US/UK Fomented Crisis In Syria? Paul Craig Roberts It appears from the very limited US missile attack, most of which were intercepted and destroyed by Syrian air defenses, that the US military prevailed over the crazed John Bolton and carefully avoided a strike that would have resulte
Even though the Scenario turned out to be the best ever, if you are truly interested you should play the link below, which will tell you what is really going on in Syia. Hint: it is opposite of what you would hear in the U.S., UK, and EU. (They are all liers)
Cherchez la Verite / 18d
The Worst Case Scenario Is Now Our Reality April 13, 2018 | Categories: Guest Contributions | Felicity Arbuthnot Lays It On The Line https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-and-syria-the-worst-case-scenario-is-now-our-reality/5635749 Cherchez la Verite
Ten Days Before The End Of The World. Do you believe it? Do you even think about it? Well, I do. The people who are pushing this are in the U.S. (particularly Trump and his insane warmongering govement). I hope that the Russians handel it well to save the world.
Cherchez la Verite / 20d
Ten Days Before The End Of The World April 12, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Ten Days Before The End Of The World Paul Craig Roberts The criminally insane governments of the US, UK, and France are sending a flotilla of missile ships, submarines, and an aircraft carrier to attack Syria in the face of Russian warnings. What is the likely outcome of this outrageous act of aggression based
The idiocy of Trump, French president Macron, and UK prime minister May may be bringing the end of the world.
Cherchez la Verite / 22d
Idiocy Is Bringing The End Of The World April 11, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Idiocy Is Bringing The End Of The World Paul Craig Roberts Here is Jason Ditz on the coming end of the world: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/04/10/trump-builds-coalition-for-war-against-syrian-government/ Vladimir Soloviev explains the failure of Putin’s policy of appeasement: https://russia-insider.com/en/br
WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE
The Biggest Estate on Earth
What Is Sustainable / 4d
The British colonization of Australia began in 1788. Historian Bill Gammage, a white fella, spent ten years studying the writings of early observers, as well as paintings, drawings, and maps from the era. The landscape in 1788 looked radically different from today. Much of what is now dense forest or scrub used to be grasslands. Early eyewitnesses frequently commented that large regions looked li
Peak Horse
What Is Sustainable / 27d
In the early 1900s, automobiles, trucks, buses, and tractors were becoming very trendy. The human population was two billion and growing, while the horse population peaked and declined. Model T Fords did not require five acres of good grassland to fuel them, an area that could feed six to eight people. While grassland was, in theory, a renewable resource, there was not an infinite supply of it. P
DR CINTLI
Support the MAS Women's Plaza Honorees Campaign
Dr Cintli / 9d
As part of the Raza Studies continuing struggle, many of the mostly young women who took direct action, including: getting arrested after HB 2281 was signed in 2010; taking over the school board on April 26, 2011; and getting arrested at the highly militarized meeting on May 3, 2011, are being honored as part of the MAS Women's Plaza Honorees Campaign Project at the University of Arizona. Initial
It's Time for Arizona's School Board to Implement a Court's 2017 Raza Studies Ruling in Good Faith
Dr Cintli / 9d
It's Time for Arizona's School Board to Implement a Court's 2017 Raza Studies Ruling in Good Faith TRUTHOUT Despite a favorable 2017 court decision, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) school board continues to refuse to abide by a historic ruling against the state of Arizona in regards to the 2010 legislation HB 2281. This Orwellian legislation outlawed the teaching of courses that promote
FREE PLANET
Electric Universe - giant stone balls - Olmec heads etc...
Free Planet / 2d
because I graze around the alternative fringe of Science all the time, I sometimes come across things I wouldn't normally have found if I was a simple researcher within my chosen field. Case in point, THE STONE BALLS OF COSTA RICA. But they're not. They're everywhere. All over the world. Some are small, there are lots of them. Some are the size of Olmec Heads, you know the ones, it's (probably) a
Star Citizen - story mode vs sandbox mode - the depression realisation
Free Planet / 8d
For the longest time, I've (somehow) convinced myself that parts one, two and three of Squadron 42 will be where CIG takes the player on a military journey through some war with some alien race, and that Star Citizen was an MMO sandbox game set in the same universe. Two completely different products. Spent a bit of time on Star Citizen's subreddit, and after much insane and obstructive debate cam
Star Citizen - IFS or Intentional Flight System - theblindmanshandsout control prototype
Free Planet / 15d
I realise Star Citizen's all about the machine I'm driving, currently... but that's because Star Citizen is still suffering from the legacy of its narrative-game military-cousin, Squadron 42. In S42, as it's abbreviated, the player flies the status-relative ship and shoots the shit that the game throws at him. The story-machine knows where you are and can offer you timer'd events to deal with. It
Star Citizen - ILM or Internal Lighting Model - too many fake Hollywood-pop lights
Free Planet / 16d
Before I get onto my lighting polemic, ID Tech 666 is used to power Doom 2016, but Star Citizen looks better ... where it fails is in the Attentnion To Detail, and I don't mean in the machinery and guns and world and stuff, "I mean the gaming sandbox," and the general functionality of the interactive world and the re-spawning never-die hyperspace-generated-everything nature. While it might seem o
Ancient Architects - Stonehenge - were the stones always there?
Free Planet / 17d
as explained in this video by the Ancient Architects youtube page, it seems possible that all the giant Sarsens and all the accompanying Bluestones of the world-famous Stonehenge monument were local to the vicinity of Salisbury Plain i.e. not transported for tens or hundreds of miles, respectively.
Star Citizen - persistence and spawning - the existential debate
Free Planet / 19d
tell the truth, man... PERSISTENCE-VERSE 1.0.1.: Star Citizen , the (supposed) sandbox companion to the Squadron 42 story version of CIG's near-$200,000,000.00 crowd-funded space-flight planet-exloring privateer-empire endeavour, has a persistence element attached to it involving logouts and insurance and re-spawning and... What does it really mean, this Persistence ? WARNING: this might seem pic
GREG MANKIW'S BLOG
Digital Textbooks
This podcast (from last summer, but new to me) offers a good discussion of the benefits of digital textbooks.
INEXPLICATA-THE JOURNAL OF HISPANIC UFOLOGY
Argentina: ICOU Conmemorates the 1963 Trancas Case
As part of their effort to conmemorate Argentina's long and distinguished UFO history, the ICOU ( Investigadores de Campo Unidos / United Field Researchers ) group has set up its most recent plaque in Trancas, Argentina - the scenario of the mind-bending Trancas Incident of 1963 in which the Moreno family was besieged by entities from a landed saucer (or source of light) on the nearby train track
Argentina: Strange Creature Slays Two Dogs in Santa Fe
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Perfil (www.perfil.com/trends) Date: 04.13.2018 Argentina: Strange Creature Slays Two Dogs in Santa FE The creature's shape is striking, as it has not been connected with any known animal. Residents of Totoras in the province of Santa Fe report that a creature is wandering the streets and has even slain two dogs. The photograph, taken and night and somewhat blurry, has
The Threat of UFO Invasion
The Threat of UFO Invasion By Scott Corrales © 2018 "A communication disruption can only mean one thing: Invasion." --Sio Bibble, Queen Amidala’s prime minister in Star Wars Episode I – Attack of the Clones Despite the sage courtier’s assertion in the first installment of George Lucas’s second round of space epics, we might sooner believe that a planet-wide interruption of communications, or a co
Mexico: Lens-Shaped UFO over MCIA
Source: Alfonso Salazar Date: 04.14.2018 Mexico: Lens-Shaped UFO over MCIA We have received the following information and image from aviation technician Alfonso Salazar : "A luminous UFO flying over the airport this Saturday, 14 April 2018, the time being 9:00 in the evening. I, Alfonso Salazar, in the company of three aviation technicians, witnessed a very bright flying object flying over Mexico
Argentina: Flying Object over the El Toro Viaduct (Salta)
Source: El Tribuno (www.eltribuno.com) Date: 10 April 2018 A Report by Jaime Barrera Argentina: Flying Object over the El Toro Viaduct (Salta) The photo was a taken as an inexplicable flash in the sky. Upon further analysis, a grayish, oval object can be clearly seen overhead. The viaduct where the Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) used to run was a mute witness to the sighting, which occurr
Argentina: Alleged Contactee Experience in Salta
Source: www.Perfil.Com and Marcelo Metayer Date: 04.20.2018 Argentina: Alleged Contactee Experience in Salta Residents of Rosario de La Frontera, in northwestern Salta Province, claim that "extraterrestrial contact" took place in recent days by exchanging light signals. Ezequiel Alvarez, chief of the local volunteer firefighters of that community, managed to capture strange lights that turn on an
WELCOME BACK TO POTTERSVILLE
What's Playing on the Intertuvz?
My heroes are now on the final leg of their journey to catching the Gamesman in my new thriller, A GAME OF HANGMAN, So this digest is all I have time for right now, peeps. Just a coincidence, I'm sure, but the late Cambridge Analytica's primary funder, Rebekah Mercer (Robert Mercer's daughter) joined a shadowy new firm called Emerdata last month. When she filed British government paperwork, she u
Bless Me, Constant Reader, For I Have Sinned.
It has been 15 days since my last rant. Yeah, this was my reaction when i noticed the date of my last post and for that, for those few of you who have stuck by me when everyone else fled during the friendly fascist days of Obama, I have no excuses... ...except to say that I've been in the teeth of a new book since I put The Doll Maker into the submission swim. It's another Scott Carson novel, wel
Rat #46 Scuttles Off the Listing Ship of State
The self-pitying sanctimoniousness of Paul Ryan's official resignation announcement was literally sickening. He didn't seek the job as House Speaker. He wasn't really resigning because of November's Blue Tsunami getting bigger and bigger on the horizon. And, of course, he wanted to spend more time with the Koch Brothers his family. And so ends one of the shortest House Speaker tenures in modern A
Trump is Henry Jekyll's Potion
It's all about Donald Trump (at least in his funhouse mirror worldview), yet it isn't . Those of us in the reality-based community find it all too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that's wrong with our once-great nation. He's the world's biggest lightning rod and, yes, we can trace the corruption, the forced deportations of Dreamers and Wall Street's instability directly to him. Throw a
Interview with Mystery Author Valerie Burns
I know this is a political blog and that whoever comes here generally does looking for political commentary. Yet, considering the negative news we've been incessantly hearing since a certain evolutionary dropout descended an escalator like a bored mall husband and into history, a change of pace is always welcome. So I decided to reach out to one of my more interesting Facebook friends, my current
Malice in Wonderland
Look at the Easter Bunny's face. It seems as if he's asking himself, "Where's Lewis Carrol when you need some common sense?" Donnie Dumbo becomes Donnie Darko, Sr. This was Donald Trump at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll last Sunday. There were thousands of children on the South Lawn with their parents waiting to have fun. Then Trump, typically, wings it with just the right wing and starts
LEFT I ON THE NEWS
DNC sues Wikileaks
Left I on the News / 12d
Headline : "Democrats file suit alleging Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks conspired to interfere in 2016 campaign" Leave aside the question of suing Russia and the Trump campaign, and focus on Wikileaks. When Wikileaks released emails from the DNC and Podesta, the Clinton campaign said as vociferously as they could that no one should read them because they were fake. In fact, however, they weren
Headlines for Friday, April 13, 2018
Left I on the News / 19d
Boxer wears ‘America 1st’ shorts in bout with Mexican, finishes second Nothing like a little schadenfreude. And kudos to the headline writer, because finishing “second” in a boxing match is commonly called “losing”. Kids don't know about the Holocaust because schools are pre-occupied with social justice What on actual earth does this even mean? There are museums and days and history books and man
The latest "chemical attack" in Syria
Left I on the News / 23d
If you think Trump is wrong and lies about literally everything, but is suddenly telling the truth about a chemical attack by the Syrian government, perhaps you need to think more deeply. Here are two simple facts for you: 1) The Syrian government and the rebels holed up in Ghouta reached an agreement this weekend that the rebels would leave within 48 hours (Syria had already defeated and driven o
Additional headlines for April 9, 2018
Left I on the News / 23d
Fox News is less trusted than CNN and MSNBC, Fox News graphic shows That’s Fox News host Howard Kurtz asking for someone to take down this graphic, which was shown at the wrong point during a “Media Buzz” segment on Sunday: ‘That is not the graphic we are looking for. Hold off. Take that down, please.’ ICC says Israel, Hamas acts may be war crimes So, burning tires is now a war crime? Well actual
Headlines for Friday, April 6
Left I on the News / 26d
My segment on Loud & Clear Radio got postponed until Monday thanks to the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza. Regardless, I'm starting a new policy on the blog, which is this: every Friday I'll post the headlines we did talk about on the show, but also the ones we just didn't have time to talk about. There are so many "good" (usually meaning "bad") ones each week, then 10-12 minutes doesn't come clo
A WAY TO LIVE
A meditation on four propositions
A Way to Live / 16d
1. On the truth that life hurts. 1.1. I don't know much (though I have been told a great deal, all my life) about past lives or an afterlife, but I'm pretty sure I'm living a life now, and, given that I was a tree planter amid the mountains of the Pacific Northwest for ten years, I can assure you there is physical pain. What we know as psychological pain or mental anguish is also physical pain. 1
MIDDLE EAST TODAY
The US Presence in Syria
Middle East Today / 23d
During the last week of March 2018, president Trump mad a public statement regarding the American military involvement in the Middle East. He pointed out that during the past 17 years the US government spent more than 7 trillion dollars as a result of the military forces involvement in wars in the region. What did we get as a result of the involvement, did president Trump ask? Nothing, nothing, n
VAGABOND SCHOLAR
National Poetry Month 2018: Fire and Ice
Vagabond Scholar / 2d
April is National Poetry Month. As usual, I'll promote the wonderful Favorite Poem Project. Unfortunately, the associated Summer Poetry Institute for teachers ceased last year, but the site still has resources for teachers or anyone else who wants to host a favorite poem event. This year, I'm going to feature a short piece, whose dark wit always makes me smile. Fire and Ice By Robert
NEWS FROM ATLANTIS.
We're not all the same. And that is a good thing
News From Atlantis. / 25d
2 years ago I was trapped in the city. House prices had fallen to the point where I could not afford to move. The area I lived in used to be a decent enough place, but over the years it has become infested with rapists, drug dealers, child rapists and all manner of assorted scum. Things were so bad that I took the plunge and left the area, leaving behind a life that I had become so accustomed to,
NOLANCHART.COM
Trump’s Environmental Jihad
NolanChart.com / 5d
The GOP-denied, slow-release timebomb of environmental degradation now seems to be on a hair trigger with Scott Pruitt as head of the Trump EPA. Never […]
Newt Gingrich identifies the domestic threats to the idea of America
NolanChart.com / 8d
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has created a six part course titled Defending America. Newt is a former college professor who taught history. […]
Rush explained how capitalism cannot meet the demand for conservative electronic media!
NolanChart.com / 23d
Rush took a question that posed what I have asked for years. The questioner started with a statement about the American people, and their ideological […]
How dim are world prospects?
NolanChart.com / 30d
Call me paranoid, but I have a sneaking suspicion that disaster looms at the next election, the midterm election, that is. Too many anti-democratic forces […]
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