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Nicest strangers ever come to meet newborn after texting mishap
It takes a courage to respond to a wrong number not with rage, but with
compassion.
Brothers Deorick and Denis Williams received a group text over the
weekend with a big, beautiful announcement. Lindsey and Mark Knox has
given birth to a healthy baby boy, Carson Knox. It was a routine text,
but a slight twist — the brothers had no idea who these people were.
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Tiger peeking out of the water emerges as another great Photoshop battle
Some photoshop battles are good, and some are grrrrreat!
Reddit user VertonerAura uploaded a picture of a tiger poking its head
out of water covered in green leaves for other users to go wild with in
Photoshop.
SEE ALSO: Warrior frog and its beetle steed go into Photoshop battle
Image: reddit, VertonerAuraThanks to some clever digital artists, the
curious cat is now everything from the Cave of
How quickly can a vampire drink your blood ?
Physics students have calculated just how long it would take for a
vampire to drain your body of blood. It might be near to the top of the
list of unl...
The Veneer of Justice in a Kingdom of Crime
Via: BestEvidence: The criminal global banking cartel has effected a
coup d’etat in the U.S. This is why the same criminal financial elite
that saw 1000 of its members go to prison 20 years ago (after the
S&L crisis) is now above the law. To date, the question of why the
U.S. Department of Justice […]
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The End of Research in Wisconsin
This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott
Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250 million from
higher education, but also severely weakened shared faculty governance
and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities.
Specifically, any professor in the system—tenured or not—could be
dismissed or laid off by the 18-member Board of Regents
Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide
A proposal by a British agency to let the Internet name a research ship
is the latest in a trend of web users having some fun with public
polls.
Forty millionaires ask New York to raise taxes on wealthy in '1% plan for fairness'
Open letter from ‘New Yorkers who have contributed to and benefited
from the economic vibrancy of our state’ says they ‘have the
responsibility to pay’More than 40 millionaires on Monday asked New York
state to raise taxes on the wealthy, under what they called a “1% plan
for tax fairness”. Related: We are New York's millionaires and we say:
raise our taxes Continue reading...
Hillary Clinton’s AIPAC Speech Was a Symphony of Craven, Delusional Pandering
Any presidential candidate speaking to AIPAC, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, during an election year is going to bow to the
hawkish elements of the Israel lobby. Hillary Clinton’s keynote speech
at AIPAC’s annual meeting Monday, however, was more debased than it
needed to be, promising that under her administration, Israel will be
spared even the mild rebukes it has suffered under P
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Two defining features of quantum mechanics never appear together
(Phys.org)—Two of the most important ideas that distinguish the quantum
world from the classical one are nonlocality and contextuality.
Previously, physicists have theoretically shown that both of these
phenomena cannot simultaneously exist in a quantum system, as they are
both just different manifestations of a more fundamental concept, the
assumption of realism. Now in a new paper, physicists ha
Autism genes are in all of us, new research reveals
New light has been shed on the genetic relationship between autistic
spectrum disorders and ASD-related traits in the wider population.
Autism spectrum disorders are a class of neurodevelopmental conditions
affecting about 1 in 100 children. They are characteriszd by social
interaction difficulties, communication and language impairments, as
well as stereotyped and repetitive behavior.
Physicists prove energy input predicts molecular behavior
The world within a cell is a chaotic space, where the quantity and
movement of molecules and proteins are in constant flux. Trying to
predict how widely a protein or process may fluctuate is essential to
knowing how well a cell is performing. But such predictions are hard to
pin down in a cell's open system, where everything can look hopelessly
random.
Beating Human Hearts Grown In Laboratory Using Stem Cells
Health and Medicine
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A partly regrown human heart within a bioreactor, which replicates the
biological conditions around a normal human heart. Bernhard Jank, MD,
Ott Lab, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Right now, there are 4,186 people waiting for a heart transplant in the
U.S., but with a huge donor shortage not all of these patients are likel
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iPhone SE hands-on — meet Apple's tiny phone
The new 4-inch iPhone is essentially going to be a mixture of the
iPhone 6 and 6S but in a body resembling an iPhone 5. For more on Apple,
check out our camera shootout comparison between the iPhone 6S Plus and
the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: https://goo.gl/6vL5sh Here’s our review of
the iPad Pro: https://goo.gl/gyTF4W Survival tips to maximize the
storage on a 16GB iPhone: https://goo.gl/6F76pd Subs
So You Want to Move to Canada, Eh?
Many Americans have been googling "how to move to Canada," and Canadians have plenty to say aboot it.From: TheEllenShow
Shipwreck From Explorer Vasco de Gama's Fleet Discovered
After 18 years of research, excavations and archaeological analysis,
National Geographic grantee David Mearns has successfully discovered one
of Vasco da Gama's ships lost at sea in 1503 off the coast of
present-day Oman. Together with the Oman Ministry of Heritage and
Culture and over 50 crew members they found thousands of artifacts
including gold coins, cannonballs, ceramics, and a ship's bell
Apple's iPhone SE event in 10 minutes
Apple debuted a smaller iPhone, a new iPad Pro and brand new watch
bands for the Apple Watch. Here's everything you missed. For more on
Apple, check out our camera shootout comparison between the iPhone 6S
Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: https://goo.gl/6vL5sh Here’s our
review of the iPad Pro: https://goo.gl/gyTF4W Survival tips to maximize
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The Corbett Report
Interview 1150 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
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mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-03-17%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This
week on the New World Next Week: the Syrian war begins to wind
down...maybe; OKC and Unabomber cover up judge gets Supreme Court nod;
and hellfire missiles wind up headed for Portland.
The EnvironmentaList
New Film Showcases Logical Energy Alternatives to Destructive Mega Dams in Borneo
Sarawak village rejects Baram dam proposal, begins installing renewable energy projects
Storm in Mexico May Have Significantly Harmed Overwintering Monarchs, Says Expert
Researchers hope to get a better picture of the damage in the coming week
The Cradle of Conservation
Envisioning a new type of conservation in North Dakota’s broken badlands
Berta Cáceres, Honduran Indigenous Rights Leader, Murdered at Home
Cáceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for her
courageous opposition to mining and other mega-development projects
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The case for smugness in education
On a near daily basis, educators are asked repeatedly to let down their
guards and be “open” to feedback. Although, when someone asks you as a
teacher to be open to feedback, I’d start to build that defensive wall
quickly because trouble is coming. Teachers in schools within
impoverished communities are inundated with feedback from […]
To those going to #AERA16: Make us care
Because we don’t. And by we I mean teachers. As a former college
professor who has attended meetings of the American Educational Research
Association (AERA), I know what magic stands behind that curtain. The
vast, vast majority of teachers have no idea about AERA or, if they do,
don’t care about it. The goal of […]
Extending school days and year will continue flux in DCPS
The Chancellor of DC Public Schools is hell bent on transitioning the
entire District, mainly vis a vis most beleaguered schools, to an
extended day and school year. The Mayor and Chancellor recently
announced a list of roughly ten schools who will be implementing an
extended school year of 20 days. These schools are all […]
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
When all the smoke clears and you see
I’m just back in Nicaragua after a couple of weeks back in Canada
hanging out with my family, and I’m going through one of those re-entry
things where I’m suddenly reawakened to the many sad stories in Managua.
Mostly, people cope down here, and with a smile on their face.
But when you re-enter after two weeks of happy family time with all your
healthy, well-fed and extremely well-tende
A Different Perspective
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(Blogger's Note: The following report is posted with permission and
courtesy of Rob McConnell and 'X' Zone Radio/TV. Permission to repost
must be requested from Rob McConnell.)Multiple UFO Sighting in Hamilton,
Ontario in February 2016 A HOAX WATCH OUR VIDEO or CLICK THIS LINK
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBegU6vMzs The following is an
investigation by The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show & REL-MA
Oak Island Revisited
Since it has come up in some of the comments, and because there is a
real interest in the Oak Island treasure hunt, I thought it might be
time to revisit all of this. I first became interested in Oak Island in
the mid-1960s (which I hesitate to mention since that dates me) when I
bought John Godwin’s This Baffling World. It was a compilation of
stories of the strange and the weird including the Be
Walter Haut - Lost in the Roswell Minutae
Over the years Walter Haut made many recorded statements about what he
had done and seen in Roswell in July, 1947. For decades, all he had
done, according to those statements, including many to me, was write the
press release. He had taken that release to the various media outlets
in Roswell… or he had called them and read the release to them over the
telephone. He signed an affidavit to that effe
Project Camelot and My Life on Mars
The other day I did Rob McConnell’s X-Zone radio show. As usual, we had
a lot of fun and he mentioned to me that Kerry Cassidy had been on his
show a few days earlier. It was her premise that “Soldiers who are
alleged to be going to Iraq or Afghanistan are actually being sent off
planet to places like Mars to fight battles alongside other alien races.
Those men and women will have their minds wipe
A.E.Brain
In Summary
Too many times I've seen assertions in Op-Eds and comments that "there
is no evidence for a biological origin for transsexuality". Sometimes
it's "no evidence whatsover", sometimes "no convincing evidence", "no
peer-reviewed evidence". The impression is given that there's only one
or two papers written by pay-for-comment idealogues in vanity press
publicati
Correcting a falsehood
The state’s Human Rights Commission wants to be clear: A new rule
allowing transgender people to use restrooms that match their gender
identity does not permit men to undress in women’s locker rooms. The
agency sent out a news release Friday responding to a recent incident in
which a man undressed in a women’s locker room in Seattle. According to
the news release, the man refused to leave, citing
Sometimes you win...
With such a document, I can apply for a correction of my UK birth
certificate under the UK Gender Recognition Act (Overseas Track).I've
been waitimg (and agitating and lobbying, and informing, and educating,
and persuading) for ten years. I can wait another 6 months.
Ethical Guidelines Related to Mental Health Care
For the record...Mental health professionals need to be certified or
licensed to practice in a given country according to that country’s
professional regulations (Fraser, 2009b; Pope & Vasquez, 2011).
Professionals must adhere to the ethical codes of their professional
licensing or certifying organizations in all of their work with trans-
sexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming clients.T
Activist Teacher
Civil liberties activism is a battle against pernicious totalitarianism
Rigorous freedom of expression advocacy, applied irrespective of
societal taboos and dominant attitudes, is always political because it
always has an effect towards leveling the playing field between powerful
state-backed corporate and institutional forces and the individual.
Discourse, including the extremes, is the main democratic mechanism
against spontaneous advances of totalitarianism.
A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s condemnation of BDS
A response by McGill Professors to Principal Suzanne Fortier’s
condemnation of BDS
As
McGill professors committed to justice and equity, we strongly disagree
with Principal Suzanne Fortier’s official response on behalf of the
university administration to the recent Students’ Society of McGill
University (SSMU) motion in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) against Israel and
It's the Geopolitics, stupid!
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD
Geopolitics determines domestic policy.
Geopolitics determines domestic policy. Geopolitics determines domestic
policy.
This is apparent in the client country "Canada", where no sovereignty is
allowed, and where domestic policy is entirely about preventing any
emergence of actual democracy.
It is glaringly obvious, to anyone who escapes the constant institutiona
Canadian Members of Parliament Vote in Express Contempt for Democracy, in Support of Israel's Apartheid Regime
On February 22, 2016, 68% of the federal members of parliament in
Canada's House of Commons voted FOR this motion:
That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well
as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization
and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the
Allen L Roland's Weblog
Approaching The Ultimate Event Horizon / Death
Black Hole in space and Point of singularity Black holes in space are
in stark reality worm holes to another stage of consciousness deepest
within ourselves as experienced in the near and after death experience.
They are not meant to be feared but instead to be celebrated as the
ultimate event horizon leading from the chaos of ego consciousness to
the singularity of a Unified Field of love and sou
Clinton Fades,Trump Implodes And Bernie Shines
THE FABRICATOR * THE ARROGANT BULLY * THE REAL THING We're halfway
through the Presidential Primaries and already a trend is becoming
apparent; Hillary's credibility baggage is far too heavy and her light
is fading; Trump's arrogance and bullying tactics are now a mirror of
many of his followers as his campaign implodes while Bernie's tenacious
empowering message wins the day in Michigan ~ and wi
China Meltdown Triggering Worldwide Recession
"China syndrome" is a fanciful term that describes a fictional
worst-case result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt
through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, all
the way to China. In today's global economic climate it means that
China's over built managed economic boom fueled by margin buying and
excessive debt has exposed its global illusion o
Tap Into The Field And Heal Yourself In The Process
The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic
energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) which
lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~
and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite. Tap into
this timeless and joyous energy field by surrendering to love and heal
yourself in the process as countless others, b
Angola 3 News
Albert Woodfox and Robert H King interviewed by CNN's Christine Amanpour
Watch the video interview here, or embedded above.
Poem by Tina Otito Tamsho-Thomas: Tribute to Albert Woodfox
Tribute to Albert WoodfoxAngola 3 Political PrisonerEach and all are
waitingHeart, Spirit,Mind.Waiting for the justice day,Liberating
Humankind.Years forty three imprisoned,conscious voice
unarrested.Waiting for the justice day,Liberty attested.We will bring
our warrior home, gifted to the world,Honouring his justice day,freedom
flags unfurled.Copyright©Tina Otito Tamsho-Thomas
A3 Newsletter: Albert Is Free - Support Albert's Fund
A3 Newsletter, February 25, 2016: Oh Happy Day - Albert Woodfox is Free
At Last (PHOTO: Left to Right, Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Malik
Rahim. This photo and two further below of Albert spending quality time
with friends and family are courtesy of Palomita Firecracker's Facebook
page.)Giving ThanksWe dedicate this newsletter to the spirit of Anita
Roddick for her dedication to the Angola 3 s
Democracy Now! interviews Albert Woodfox
Well, joining us now in a broadcast exclusive from New Orleans PBS
station WLAE is Albert Woodfox himself, giving his first televised
interview since his release on Friday. Also joining us there is Robert
King, the other surviving member of the Angola 3. And Albert Woodfox’s
attorney, Billy Sothern, also joins us from New Orleans.We welcome you
all to Democracy Now! Albert Woodfox, how does it fe
ArmsControlWonk
Applying Jus in Bello to the Nuclear Deterrent
Dear readers: Here is another in a series of posts on the laws of war
and the use of nuclear weapons. This contribution is from Dr. Justin
Anderson, a Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Center for
the Study of WMD. Justin previously worked at SAIC in support of the Air
Force, STRATCOM, OSD General Counsel/International …
Kim Jong Un’s Bomb
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un visited a missile factory and posed with a
nuclear weapon promoting the obvious question: Which one is Fat Man and
which one is Little Boy? Aaron and Jeffrey discuss. Subscribe to the
show in iTunes Download this episode (27MB mp3)
In Defense of the Open Skies Treaty
With the Republican Party in tear-down mode, it’s no surprise that
demolition efforts on Capitol Hill have extended to the Open Skies
Treaty, which has impeccable Republican lineage. Nor is it a surprise
that the demolition crew has gotten an assist from Vladimir Putin, whose
record of treaty compliance is not stellar. What’s surprising is …
New Warhead Designs
With the benefit of hindsight and magical thinking, the Nuclear
Enterprise and the Arms Control Enterprise should have struck a deal
during the George W. Bush Administration: ratification of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in return for production of the Reliable
Replacement Warhead. This revisionist history assumes, of course, that
backers of the RRW would …
Because I Can
If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is her fault.
I spend a lot of time lurking around the interwebGoing through Twitter
feedsGoing through news articles on the MSM and alternative sitesGoing
through public Facebook pagesAndListening to left-wing radioOne of the
spurious themes I am seeing repeated over and over again is that
non-Republican people must for Hillary if she wins the nomination.To
that I respondBullshit!This is the United States of
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BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com
Reagan in 1988: Senate's "Obligation" to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy in Election Year
..By MARC McDONALDMaybe this wasn't news to many progressives, but
until I saw MoveOn.org's recent email about this, it was news to me. In
1988, Ronald Reagan (as shown in the video above) stated clearly that it
is the Senate's "obligation" to work to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in
an election year.Kudos to MoveOn.org for drawing attention to this
story. But I will point out that it's p
Big Dan's Big Blog
Did The GOP Establishment Just Enlist K-K-Karl Rove To Take Down Trump Starting With Planting The David Duke KKK Stories?
BUSH's BRAINI recently got in touch again with a political activist
friend of mine, plunger, after about 10 or so years. I mentioned to him
the David Duke endorsing Donald Trump stories in the "news" right before
a primary sticking out like a sore thumb as far as some powerful people
trying to take down Trump, and plunger said that tactic has Karl Rove
written all over it. I would never
Buckdog
Liberals Reneging on Pot Reform Promises !!! Trudeau Instructs Police
Forces To CONTINUE Arresting Canadians For SImple Possession. LYING
LIBERALS !!
LYING LIBERALS RENEG ON POT REFORM - 'Keep busting them' says
Trudeau!!!Justin Trudeau has advised the nations police to continue to
harass and arrest Canadians for simple possession of marijuana. What a
lying bunch of opportunists you guys elected as the federal
government:Straight.com
Cherchez la Verite
Are you left wondering what is now going on in Syria, Turkey, and the
rest of the middle east? What Russia is doing now that it has stopped
bombing ISIS/ISIL/Daesh jihadies? Well, Russia is now "calling the
shots", not with bombs, but with diplomacy. In any event, the intrepid
West Asia correspondent Pepe Escobar reports that: "It's spy thriller
stuff; no one is talking. But there are indications Russia would not
announce a partial withdrawal from Syria right before the Geneva
negotiations ramp up unless a grand bargain with Washington had been
struck. Some sort of bargain is in play, of which we still don't know
the details; that's what the CIA itself is basically saying through
their multiple US Think Tankland mouthpieces. And that's the real
meaning hidden under a carefully timed Barack Obama interview that,
although inviting suspension of disbelief, reads like a major policy
change document."
OpEdNews Op Eds 3/19/2016 at 18:32:56Is There a US-Russia Grand Bargain
in Syria? By Pepe Escobar (about the author) Permalink
Related Topic(s): Grand Bargain; Obama; Putin; Syria; Us-russia
Relationsopednews.com reprinted from Sputnik
Headlined to H3 3/19/16 Original HereU.S and Russia
Ceasefire in Syria(image by WeAreChange, Channel: WeAreChange) It
This article was called to my attention by a Paul Craig Roberts' post,
wherein he provided the following prolog to this article: "TPP Is Not A
Trade Agreement. The sole purpose of TTP is to give global corporations
immunity to the laws of the countries in which they do business.
Indeed, TPP allows a private corporation to repeal soverign laws of
sovereign countries, which no longer would be sovereign. All a
corporation has to do is to sue the country for 'restraint of trade' if
the corporations’ profits are harmed by the country’s laws. For example,
Monsanto could sue France and force the French government to repeal its
laws against GMOs. As Mike Masnick writes, we were promised a debate
about TPP, but did not get one. The corporations have greased all the
palms with big bucks. Every government that signs on to TPP flushes its
sovereignty down the toilet. Corporations are transformed into Global
Emperors against whom mere citizens have no recourse."
PCR's prolog here:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/03/15/tpp-is-not-a-trade-agreement/
Find original tech dirt article here.Countries Sign The TPP... Whatever
Happened To The 'Debate' We Were Promised Before Signing?from the
now-the-ratification-fight deptAbout an hour ago, representatives from
12 different nations officially signed the Trans Pacific Partnership
(TTP) agreement in Auckland,
Do you know that Janet Yellen has been guiding the Fed based on these
faked data? It's like the enginer of a train being told the track ahead
is clear when actually another train coming the other way. Moreover,
many people who make their money on the stock market believe that the
latest drops in the major markets are just minor glichs, whereas in
truth the market is doomed to crash for the reasons Paul Craig Roberts
explains below. So if you have positions in the stock markets, you
should take your money out now and/or buy into quality gold and silver
shares.
Another Phony Jobs Report March 6, 2016 | Original Here | Use original
if you wish to receive his newsletter via email Another Phony Jobs
Report And if true it is damningThe monthly payroll jobs reports have
become a bad joke.No growth in real retail sales, but 55,000 retail
trade new jobs in February.No growth in real consumer income, but 40,000
more waitresses and bartenders.86,000 new jobs in
Dear readers: The post of Paul Craig Roberts that I re-post below has
caused me to reflect on a man from Serbia who I met in 2001 when we were
both Invited Professors of Research at Universités de Paris 6 et 7.
And, with probability near zero, we turned out to be doing the vey same
type of research and using the very same spectrometer! (See photo
below). We had no trouble sharing the spectrometer and became great
friends. Pavle told me that back in Serbia he had taken part in, I
think, about 50 demonstrations against the dictator Slobodan Milošević,
who was charged with war crimes including genocide and crimes against
humanity in connection to the wars in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. At
that time Pavle apparently believed that the NATO attack then in
progress was to unseat Milošević. So for a while we used to converse by
email and sent each other Christmas photos. Then he broke off all
communication with me, not answering any of my subsequent emails. The
only conclusion I can…
Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy — Paul Craig Roberts March 4,
2016 | Original Here | Use original if you wish to receive his
newsletter via email Murder Is Washington’s Foreign PolicyPaul Craig
Roberts Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example,
the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals
Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese
Creekside
Sunni Ways
G&M : Saudis defend human rights record over $15-billion arms deal
with Canada “The kingdom of Saudi Arabia believes that call[s] for
universality of human rights does not mean imposition of principles and
values that go against our Islamic values and religion.”Here in Canada,
we don't believe calls for universality of human rights means imposition
of principles and values that go against our
The Doc the Koch Brothers Don't Want You to See
One year ago, Global News pulled "The Koch Connection" by acclaimed
Canadian TV producer and investigative journalist Bruce Livesey just
days before it went to air. Promo material about the Koch brothers'
influence in Canada, including an interview with an Alberta cattle
rancher, was also scrubbed off their site. Livesey told his story on
Canadaland and was subsequently fired - along wit
Shopping for human rights
Passed yesterday in the House : "That, given Canada and Israel share a
long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations,
the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of
Israel, and call upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by
Canadian organizations, groups or indiv
Cons struggle to find their opposition feet
"They're stealing all our best shit," wailed CPC MP Remplestiltskin
from her parliamentary selfie twitter account, rattling off all the
HarperGov ideas embraced by the Liberals since they formed a majority
government in October :Saudi arms deal - checkTPP signed - checkReturn
of the F35 bid - checkKeystone XL pipeline - checkEnergy east pipeline -
checkVoted for C-51 - checkCanadian Whea
DAMMIT JANET!
Health Minister Philpott Blows a Dog Whistle
Health Minister Jane Philpott blew an anti-choice dog whistle on
Tuesday. Did you catch it? While pro-choice activists marched through
Charlottetown's streets to protest the lack of abortion services on
P.E.I., the issue received some attention in the House of Commons
Tuesday.It came in the form of a question from the NDP MP from
Nanaimo-Ladysmith, Sheila Malcolmson, who said the service must be a
Mocking the Predators: Guelph Report
40 Days of Preyers seems to be rather a fizzle in Canada this year.
First, they're down to only 8 cities -- and a part-time vigil in
Saskatoon -- from 15 in the fall last year.There's not much bragging on
social media of huge turn-outs or of women successfully coerced
convinced to turn around.And if a Québécois MNA is successful with her
private member's bill, all such predatory demonstrations wou
Nope. This "Preborn" Victims Law Won't Pass Either
I'm loath to get into this one again, as it drives people
cuckoo-bananas, but this is my beat and this story is part of it. Just
about a year ago, we reported on the fallout from a brutal murder of a
pregnant woman that also resulted in the death of her fetus. That
fallout was a petition titled "Molly Matters: Reconsider and Pass Bill
C-484."Ken Epp's private member's bill C-484, or &quo
Abortion in Canada: Good and Not Nearly Good Enough News
To its credit, Global News has been running several stories lately
about abortion -- especially abortion access -- in Canada. Yesterday, it
had two.First, a new poll on unrestricted abortion.Canadian attitudes
toward abortion appear to be shifting, according to a new Ipsos poll, as
six in ten say abortion should be permitted whenever a woman decides
she wants.The Ipsos poll, given exclusively to G
Did You Know
CBC podcast investigates Adrien McNaughton cold case
The story is about this child, who vanished in 1972
Adrien McNaughton
In the summer of 1972, five-year-old Adrien McNaughton disappeared one
night without a trace, over four decades ago. Today he would be 49 years
old.
The tragedy still haunts his family and the town of Arnprior, Ontario.
David Ridgen grew up in the same area as little Adrien McNaughton and
was a young boy at the time of the di
Dr Cintli
Not Counting Mexicans and Indians
THE VIDEOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G2ZAwKOCKA&feature=youtu.be
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Argentina: A Community of Earthbound "Pleiadans"?
Source: El Popular.pe (Perú)Date: November 16, 2015Argentina: A
Community of Earthbound "Pleiadans"?Less than 70 miles from the
provincial seat of Salta, between the communities of Cachi and La Poma,
along Route 40, can be found a "Pleiadan base" whose occupants claim to
be the embodiment of extraterrestrial beings from some distant corner of
the universe.Amid messages and entr
Argentina: UFO Photographed in Catamarca
Source: El Ancasti (www.elancasti.com.ar)Date: 03.06.2016Argentina: UFO
Photographed in CatamarcaThe photo was taken at Paraje Chaschuil,
Tinogasta, in the Catamarcan "Puna" (montane grassland region) by a
group of youngsters traveling across Paso de San Francisco.The photo was
taken by one of the youths, whose hobby it is to photograph the most
desolate regions of the La Puna region, ac
Argentina: "The South is Being Visited by UFOs"
Argentina: "The South is Being Visited by UFOs"By Andrea Pérez
Simondini, Visión OVNI & CEFORAWe have a story to tell you. The
newspapers have startled us today with a multiple sighting in the Punta
Loyola, Santa Cruz (Argentina) area. It seems that the south has been
surprising us with a series of observations which, we could say, require
profound investigation.First, there was the
Argentina: Airliner Has a Run-In with UFO Over Rio Grande
Source: Luis Burgos (FAO), Jorge Fernandez Gentile (Quinto Milenio) and
www.infouegina.comDate: March 3, 2016Argentina: Airliner Has a Run-In
with UFO Over Rio GrandeA pilot from a well-known airline saw a strange
"object" as he was about to land in Rio Grande, this object was in an
area "forbidden" or restricted to air traffic at such a time, and the
pilot asked the tower if t
Land Destroyer
US Invites Thai Fugitive Mass Murderer to NYC
March 15, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - US special interests have been
pursuing a decades-long regional agenda in Southeast Asia in an attempt
to create a united supranational front with which to confront
Beijing.Exposed first in the "Pentagon Papers" in the 1970's, it was
revealed that three fronts existed along which the US sought to
"contain" China; the Japan-Korea front; t
Russia "Withdrawing" From Syria?
March 15, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) Russia spent only 1/50th of its
annual defense budget during its ops in Syria - that is based on the
most upward estimates of what would be the annual costs and Russia has
only been in Syria for 5 months. Its defense export agency,
Rosoboronexport, brought in 15 times the amount of money estimated to
have been spent on Syria in 2015, and expects to bring in a
Russia's "Mission Accomplished" Moment in Syria
But unlike America's in Iraq, Russia actually has accomplished its
mission.March 17, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - In what appears to be
another carefully planned masterstroke vis-a-vis the US, NATO, and its
Persian Gulf allies upon and around the Syrian battlefield, Russia has
announced that it is withdrawing its forces after its 5 month long
intervention on behalf of the Syrian government in Da
Welcome to the Empire of Chaos
March 12, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) When globe-trotting journalist and
keen geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar refers to the United States as
the "Empire of Chaos," it may seem like hyperbole. But upon looking
deeper at both Escobar's coverage and the United States' foreign policy
itself, it is perhaps the most accurate title for this political entity
and its means of operation, perhaps m
Lexicon Daily
City of Davis Fire Department fleet costs and Chief's statement
Upon a public records request I was given the following information
regarding the cost of fuel, repair and maintenance of the Davis Fire
Department's five fire engines and how many miles each was driven in
2015:Vehicle Miles Gallons of fuel Cost of Fuel Repair/Maintenance Total
fuel + repair 330-E31 10,0232,221$6,721.12$29,841.23$36,562.35330R-E231
2,908470.28$1,333.61$39,052.26$40,385.87320-E32 7
"What Everyone Should Know About Bicycles for Fun and Safety"
Below are the front and back cover and a few interior pages from a
booklet I found among her books called, "About Bicycles." My mom likely
brought this home from an S&L in Davis then called Central
California Federal Savings and Loan Association. I think this is the
same institution that became Heart Federal and today is a branch of US
Bank.The copyright on this booklet is 1965, thou
News From Atlantis.
Back to Basics. A Departure from Ethic/Spiritual Chauvinism
Since starting this blog, I have endeavoured to search for knowledge. I
have always had a healthy respect for people who are on a journey to
increase their understanding of what we call reality. I have never had
anything but pity for those who cling to a delusional belief that they
have all the answers. Sadly, in my travels through the unknown, I lost
my way and fell into the trap of proselytisin
Obsidian Wings
Better Late Than Never Weekend Open Thread
by wj
I have to do something to fend off my irritation (akin to the Count's
irritation with the Republicans) at seeing nothing but basketball all
over my TV. So I'm looking at baseball . . . even though the season
hasn't started yet.
As ever, 538 is the place to start:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bored-with-balance-in-baseball-2016-could-be-your-year/
Perhaps I'm just prejudiced, becau
why i'm in favor of single payer, and other topics...
by russell
As most folks probably know, I write code for a living. I build
software. It's a funny industry, by which I don't mean funny-ha-ha, and
is prone to strange enthusiasms. It can be a little volatile.
I currently work for a company that's been around for a while - probably
about 12 years, depending on when you start the clock. The owner
started by reselling a software-based service, us
Your Weekend Thread of Openness
by Ugh
So the GOP Presidential candidates spent last night pretending they're
not all scary monsters. YMMV. The Trump or Cruz question is quite
something.
Meanwhile, the SCOTUS rumpus continues, with the Republican led Senate
Judiciary Committee looking more and more ridiculous. That the press
treats this as anything other than a naked partisan power play is Bad
For Democracy. But whatevs.
On
Mix and Match . . . Or Not
by wj
A little while ago, Leonard Pitts had a column entitled If Hollywood
Does Not See You — And Reflect You — Are You Really There? It was his
take on the much-commented lack of minority, specifically black, actors
nominated for the Oscars this year.
Now certainly there is reason to wonder why Hollywood seems to have such
a limited number (relative to population) of black actors. Especially
at
Paying attention
All in, I'd rather have cheap, bad buses
I've begun to treat my bus ride to work as a sign of how the day is
going to go.If I have an OK seat, not too crunched and arrive not
limping, I bounce away from the bus whistling. Nod cheerily to the man
with the wire cages full of puppies and the two guys who spend their
days turning pallets into furniture by the side of the road.It's an easy
commute. I walk about 10 minutes to the Carreterra Ma
Pesticide Action Network
Whole Foods joins the Equitable Food Initiative
Can the marketplace help reform the food system and bring justice to
farmworkers? Yes it can. And it just did!
Yesterday, Whole Foods joined Costco, farmworkers, growers and consumer
advocates to bring real, concrete improvements to the lives of hundreds
of thousands of farmworkers across the Americas. By joining the
Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) buyers of fresh produce promise to help
com
Scientific integrity? Yes, please.
Late last year, a respected scientist for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) filed a whistleblower compaint, claiming scientific
suppression of his research on pesticides and pollinators. Today, PAN
and our supporters helped deliver comments to USDA from more than
140,000 concerned individuals, calling on the agency to respect and
support scientific integrity.
As a recent article from
People power in the San Joaquin Valley
There’s a lot of power in the San Joaquin Valley. It's a hub for
industrial agriculture interests, no doubt, as they've grown in size and
scale. But there’s also power in the communities that are organizing to
reclaim and protect shared water, soil and farmland.
That was the focus this week, as a group of academics, farmers,
students, food and environmental justice advocates, and community o
EU puts the brakes on Monsanto's RoundUp
In a surprise move earlier this week, European officials put a hold on
continued use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's
flagship herbicide RoundUp. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is now well into its seventh year of reviewing the
controversial chemical.
The European delay comes in the face of strong opposition to the
proposed 15-year re-licensing agreeme
Philosophical Comment
Personalised, Individualised or Precision Medicine: Three Unaddressed Socio-economic Hurdles
After the BRAIN initiative of 2013, in 2015 US president Obama
announced another large scale government funding scheme for biomedical
science, on so-called Precision Medicine. Just recently this initiative
announced its first pilot study. Leaving the unfortunate terminological
analogue of "precision bombing" (eventually known precisely for its lack
of precision) to a side, precision medi
Real History Blog
What it's like to phonebank for Bernie Sanders
I spent the afternoon phonebanking for
Bernie.
I have to tell you, the tools the Bernie
Sanders campaign are using are much more sophisticated than what the Obama
campaign had. Then, we were still working off of paper lists which volunteers
had to type into computers. Bernie's team has built an incredible app
you can do from a phone alone or from a phone and computer. This was the most
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
Florida Adds "Financial Information" To List of Trade Secrets That Can Get You Tossed In Jail
Florida continues to be one of the worst states in the nation for
employees. Zippo has passed so far in favor of employees this
legislative session, but legislators thought, "Gee, Florida just isn't
rotten enough for employees. Let's make it worse."So they added the very
broad category of "financial information" to the list of trade secrets
that, if taken, can land employees in
Syria Comment
Call for Submissions: Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding Dissertation and Article on Syria
Call for Submissions: Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding
Dissertation and Article on Syria
In order to promote and highlight excellence in research, the Syrian
Studies Association each year awards prizes for the best writing on
Bilad al-Sham until 1918 and on Syria in the period following.
In 2016, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding dissertation
completed between Jul
Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Emblem of Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya, using the familiar
colours associated with the Druze sect.
Although the Druze originate from a sect within Shi’i Islam, the
religious movement evolved over time such that the Druze identity is
deemed separate from that of the Shi’a. The same has been true of the
Alawites, though as is well known, a number of efforts have
The Dir’ al-Watan Brand: Liwa Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
A logo of Liwa Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi
The previous post profiled the emergence of Liwa Dir’ al-Watan (Homeland
Shield Brigade) as a Damascus-based militia during the autumn of 2015,
complete with its own media office and social media profile. As was also
made clear, Liwa Dir’ al-Watan, despite its outward Syrian nationalist
appearance, is actually led by the commander of
Liwa Dir’ al-Watan: A New Pro-Assad Militia in Damascus
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Emblem of Liwa Dir’ al-Watan
The brand of “Dir’ al-Watan” (“Homeland Shield”)- and more broadly the
concept of a “shield” force- gained increasing currency among pro-Assad
militias last year. In part, this branding reflected a regime strategy
of consolidating and defending areas deemed more vital in the wake of
the loss of more peripheral areas like Idlib and Palmyra, wh
tamplins entire
Recalibrating the BBC’s scales
Improbable as it might sound, all news media are obliged to present
themselves as unbiased. This is quite understandable. The alternative
would be to openly declare that they distort the truth to suit their own
agenda. As the ostensible purpose of news is to convey truth, this
would be an own goal. Other, less frank, news outlets would round on the
transgressor, shrieking in indignation – how coul
The Duck of Minerva
Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weapons
This is a guest post from Michael C. Horowitz (@mchorowitz), Associate
Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Perry World
House, University of Pennsylvania
Last week, Charli Carpenter published an important piece advancing the
conversation about public attitudes, public conscience, and autonomous
weapons. Her post critiqued my recent article in Research & Politics
on public o
Autonomous Weapons and Incentives for Oppression
Much of the present debate over autonomous weapons systems (AWS)
focuses on their use in war. On one side, scholars argue that AWS will
make war more inhumane (Asaro, 2012), that the decision to kill must be a
human being’s choice (Sharkey, 2010), or that they will make war more
likely because conflict will be less costly to wage with them (Sparrow,
2009). On the other side, scholars argue that AW
How (Not) to Measure the “Public Conscience”
A couple of years ago, Human Rights Watch launched a report arguing for
a treaty ban on fully autonomous weapons, claiming military robots who
target and kill human beings would violate international law. Among
other arguments, the report Losing Humanity cited the Marten’s Clause of
the Hague Convention, which encourages states to consider the “dictates
of the public conscience” in determining whe
The Anthropocene and the End of Large Fauna? Will Political Scientists Show Up?
Geologists now say that humans have had such an impact on the earth
that we have entered in to a new age, what has been termed the
Anthropocene. On some level, this is a political statement, but on
another level, it could be an observable layer in the physical surface
of the earth that future generations will excavate to find plastics and
garbage.
This era, and soon, may also spell the end of larg
Why I Don't Believe In Milankovitch Theory I: The Earth's Obliquity
The wuwt site Wednesday had a post on "fractal patterns" purportedly
seen, in "millions of years" of climate variations, by Peter Ditlevsen,
Associate Professor of Climate Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at
the University of Copenhagen, and Zhi-Gang Shao from South China
University, Guangzhou in Kina. Along the way, Prof. Ditlevsen wrote:
"The astronomical factors that
The Bottom Line About "Climate Science" and "Global Warming"
The war of words over "climate change" and "global warming" continues
to be a fragmented one, with a wide diversity of opinions and little
focus overall. Most writers on the subject are set in their views now,
as the consensus authorities--alarmist propagandists all--have been all
along, in the interest of their own favored positions and of the
political power these radical act
Ben Is Glory, Glory Is Ben
I read a comment on the jonova site that referred to "the gravitational
warming theory". My response: There is no "gravitational warming", per
se. There is instead gravitational distribution of atmospheric pressure
(the pressure at any level is just the weight of the atmosphere above
that level), which imposes a vertical temperature distribution (the
"lapse rate" stru
In One Ear and Out the Other
The Real Science site has a post on "Understanding Climate Science in
One Paragraph", a paragraph that informs the reader that the globe
warmed from 1977 to 1991, and very little if any since. I find this
interesting, because I informed the Real Science author and his readers
of this (I specified the time period as 1976 to 1989/90) as early as
September 2013, nearly two and a half years
The Galloping Beaver
Blue Lives Matter?!?!@£$*%($)£)
What.the.fuck?
Cops in the town of Port Hope, Ontario have launched a "Blue Lives
Matter" campaign that critics argue is tone-deaf at best and an
egregious form of appropriation at worst.
Cons can't help themselves
Yep, you just keep doing what you're doing, Conservatives.
Crass, insensitive, completely oblivious to context and lacking in basic
decorum: they still haven't figured out this lost them the last
election.
Perhaps they've forgotten how to do politics any other way?
Popcorn?
F-35, IT edition
The latest fun from the plane that just refuses to work is that the
radar sometimes fails and needs to be rebooted. There are rumours that
Lockheed Martin are proposing to install a direct line to their tech
support in all production F-35s.
New Con boss on the Twitters
I think it's going to take the Cons a long time to climb out of the pit
their last boss and his pals dug them into.
They've maybe got an intractable problem now in that their vision of the
country is simply unpalatable to 60 to 70% of the electorate. This
number is likely to shrink further as the older generation (60+ years)
of hardline Tory voters passes on. Younger Canadians, X-ers,
The High-fat Hep C Diet
The state of nutritional science, 2016
Someone sent me a link to this paper the other day, it's not something I
would have looked at otherwise. However, next time you read a "totality
of the evidence" snowjob supporting guidelines on saturated fat
consumption, this paper will probably have been thrown on the pile,
weighting it a little bit further.
Finucane OM, Lyons CL, Murphy AM et al (19 authors).
Monounsaturated fatty ac
Good News from Melbourne University's NZO Mouse LCHF "Paleo" Study
The egregious behaviour of Prof Sol Andrikopoulos in his press release
to global media has obscured the finding that was the primary purpose of
the "Three Mouseketeers" study.The study was supposed to answer a
question that is actually of great importance in diabetes research:
- the blood sugars of people with diabetes usually improve and can
become completely normal on the LCHF diet - t
The White Hats Report
March 7, 2016 – White Hats Report #52 – The Trump Factor – Bush crime
family pulls out the Tramp in an attempt to discredit The Donald
The 2016 US Presidential election season has officially entered the
Twilight Zone.Before we cue up the Rod Serling lead-in, a history lesson
is in order. It’s always good to review the past in order to put the
present into proper context. In the US, from now until November, the
Presidential election party primary circuses will take center stage.
The traveling road shows are in full swing with th
February 29, 2016 – White Hats Report #51 – The Trump Factor – More obfuscation, this time by the alternative media
As we gear up for resumption of operations, it has been brought to our
attention that a website has cited Lord James’ historic speech of
February 16, 2012 as source material for an article that is filled with
inaccuracies. Before we get to that, it should be pointed out that this
is the second time his speech has been cited in a disinformation piece,
the first being penned by Gordon Duff of Veter
thwap's schoolyard
Two Books I'm Reading
A friend hepped me to The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson. It's
about the building of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893; and Larson shows
how it was a snap-shot of the times. For instance; the world's first
Ferris Wheel was designed for it as US-American engineers' response to
the Eiffel Tower that wowed the world at the Paris World's Fair of 1889.
Also, while I've read fairly extensively ab
Toward a Bioregional State
F*ck the Habermasian-Beckian Project of a Homogeneous World Culture: We
Require a Bioregional Hellenization Instead of an Unrepresentative
Globalist Elitism
Castells en Tarragona, EspañaPardon my French. Or Spanish. I was
riled--riled like only one can be riled when you have much in common
with a thinker though you differ on many small points. Only small points
of disagreement between like minds seem to prickle sharper for their
rarity. They go against what you thought was a common smooth grain
shared between like minds. However, sometimes a tiny pain
Vagabond Scholar
St. Patrick's Day 2016
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Glen Hansard likes to end his concerts with
this, and have other musicians and guests (not all of them singers) sing
a verse. It's a neat, rousing and inclusive way to end the evening.
(Here's some background on the song. The lyrics can vary considerably,
and it's not unusual for performers to write new verses.) I've featured
some of my favorite Irish tunes in
Viva Bolivia
Ramphastos toucans of Bolivia
Ramphastos Toucans are the largest of the toucan family, related to the
Asian/African hornbills, along with woodpeckers, barbets, jacamars and
kingfishers.These toucans are tropical and subtropical near passerine
birds from Mexico, and Central and South America, which are brightly
marked and have enormous, often colourful, bills.This genus has a size
ranging from 42 to 61 centimetres (17 to 24 in)
New York Times on Bolivia; journalism or malicious gossip?
For years we have passed information to the New York Times and other
papers. They have ignored it, even when a Bolivian consul offered his
house to a NYT journalist and offered to set up an interview with Evo
Morales. A press reception in the Bolivian consulate in New York, on 30
June, 2010, was ignored by the NYT, the NY Post and the NY Daily News. A
short cab or subway ride away from their offic
What Is Sustainable
Understanding Sustainability
Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a great honor to announce the
release of my new book, Understanding Sustainability, a collection of
seventy-four reviews of sustainability-related books. It’s vital that
humankind develops a competent understanding of ecological
sustainability, and pursues it with all deliberate speed. A sustainable
way of life is one that can continue for millennia without
Wit's End
Love Is Not Enough
Following is the transcript for the 25th Dispatch From the Endocene,
which can be heard at ExtinctionRadio.org. The artwork is by Arthur
Rackham, whose depiction of trees rendered them veritable sentient
characters in his illustrations of fairy tales.Thanks as always Gene,
and welcome Listeners, to the 25th Dispatch From The Endocene. The
transcript and pertinent links will be found on my blog,
A Borrowed Poem
With his kind permission, please find below a poem written by Lee
McCormack, a hermit living in the dank and moldy primal forests of
Martha’s Vineyard. Writing poetry for 55 years, he is the first ever
Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate in the island’s history, nominated from
162 members of the MV Poetry Society. He is also a member of the
Cleaveland House Poets.Late For the Dance?Can you believe the
I think we're in real trouble
~ Mitch Brenner, from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, 1963Thank you Gene,
and welcome listeners, to the 24th Dispatch From the Endocene.As winter
is drawing to a close, I thought I would quote from Silent Spring,
which Rachel Carson published in 1962. She described the changes to a
bucolic town…“...a strange blight crept over the area and everything
began to change. Some evil spell had settled on t
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A Very Public Sociologist
On Iain Duncan Smith's Resignation
When you're the head of a department that has meted out cruel and
inhumane treatment to disabled people, when you've sat in the Commons
and nodded through cut after sanction regime after tightened eligibility
criteria, at what point do you say enough and call time over your
complicity in these proceedings? Does one draw a veil over the old
ministerial career by claiming principle and love for the
Momentum Vs Workers Power
I recommend reading the comments before this post. It is premised on a
mistake.After the the outing of Gerry Downing as a useful idiot for our
party's enemies, the race is on to find more specimens of the
outrageous, the unhinged, and the anti-semitic. None of it has to do
with the disinterested pursuit of a story, of course, and everything to
do with inculcating guilt-by-association in the minds
Is George Osborne Finished?
They seek him here, they seek him there. Those lobby hacks seek him
everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Okay, so my reworked rhyme lifted from the
Scarlet Pimpernel doesn't work. But neither do Osborne's sums, so all is
balanced in the world. Well, what a torrid few days for the Tories -
and not in a good way. To be sure, when Nicky Mo
Driver for the PlayStation
Sony's PlayStation made its mark as the first "proper" adult video
games system, and was marketed to the late teen/twenty something
demographic. As such Sony was concerned to build up a roster of hundreds
of edgey games that would go down well and sell more systems. Likewise,
since the furore around the home versions of Mortal Kombat in 1993,
software houses knew blood and sleaze shifte
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