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Kid destroys $15,000 LEGO sculpture an hour after new exhibit opens
Children might be small in stature, but let's be honest, they can be rather destructive when left to their own devices. Such is the case with a young Chinese boy, who single-handedly pushed over a giant fox figurine of Nick from Zootopia on Sunday at the LEGO Expo in Ningbo, China. It so happened that it was the first day of the exhibition and the display had been open to the public for no more t
5-year-old boy finds meth in Kinder Surprise egg
A young boy has found an unexpected surprise inside a Kinder egg: white powder methamphetamine, police reported.  The boy, aged five, was playing with his eight-year-old brother in the Drumachose area of Limavady, Northern Ireland, when he opened the yellow plastic shell and found the powder inside a bag, instead of a toy.  SEE ALSO: Kid destroys $15,000 LEGO sculpture an hour after new exhibit o
Nature – finally “finds” cause of Antarctic pause, will last centuries, tosses “global warming” out
Nature ties itself in knots here, and reveals a lot more than they probably meant too, but mostly about themselves rather than about Antarctica. If it’s correct, the implications from this study are pretty big, not that the study will tell you that. The term “Global warming” is tossed under a bus, along with almost all the Antarctic man-made scares of the last two decades. The political nature of
King Tut's blade was made from a meteorite
The dagger buried alongside the young pharaoh appears to have been more valuable than previously thought. Using a technique known as X-ray fluorescenc...
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Keith Olbermann: Donald Trump is winning because the media has failed the American people
Keith Olbermann Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann excoriated the media Wednesday in a guest column at The Hollywood Reporter for refusing to treat Donald Trump with the disdain he has both earned and deserves. According to Olbermann, the rationale behind this refusal is simple self-interest on the part of journalists who know that they can “ask any question about Trump, Trumpism or anti-Trumpism
Trump Time Capsule #10: The Gorilla and the Brexit
I think there’s actually a reason to keep laying this out, but we’ll get to that. For now, let’s look at a genuinely impressive moment of Donald Trump in the public eye.Daily Trump #10: June 1, 2016. The tragedy of the gorilla.In the same press conference yesterday at which he angrily lambasted the press, and resented even being questioned about money he had raised for veterans groups, Donald Trum
Donald Trump to visit UK on day of EU referendum result
Presumptive Republican US presidential nominee to visit Britain on 24 June to officially open Turnberry golf resortDonald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential election, has confirmed he is to visit the UK later this month to attend the official reopening of his hotel and golf resort in Scotland.The billionaire property developer will be at the Turnberry hotel at the gol
Jeremy Corbyn: the BBC is 'obsessed' with damaging my leadership
Labour leader complains about ‘shallow, facile’ media treatment and accuses some in party of aiding it in Vice documentary Jeremy Corbyn has argued that the BBC is obsessed with trying to damage his leadership and accused some within Labour of playing into its hands.The party leader made the claim in an interview with Vice News as part of a fly-on-the-wall documentary that gives an insight into th
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More legal pot, but fewer teen pot problems
A survey of more than 216,000 adolescents from all 50 US states indicates the number of teens with marijuana-related problems is going down. Similarly, rates of marijuana use by young people are falling despite more states legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana use. Meanwhile, the number of adults using the drug has increased. https://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Teenpot.mp3 Re
New Cretaceous fossils shed light on the early evolution of ants
Ants comprise one lineage of the triumvirate of eusocial insects and experienced their early diversification within the Cretaceous. The success of ants is generally attributed to their remarkable social behavior. Recent studies suggest that the early branching lineages of extant ants formed small colonies of either subterranean or epigeic, solitary specialist predators.
Renewable energy sources grew at record pace in 2015: study
Developing countries spent more on renewable power than rich ones for the first time last year, driving the fastest increase in sources of green energy on record, a study said Wednesday.
Lucasfilm and Disney Are Now Selling Their Own Flawless Star Wars Props
When spending $1,250 on a prop lightsaber, you want to be absolutely sure you’re buying as accurate a replica as possible. So instead of licensing designs and schematics to third-party companies, Disney and Lucasfilm have launched its own line of prop replicas that promise to be the most accurate ever created.Read more...
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Portrait of an Artist | Guido van Helten
In August 2015, film director Selina Miles travelled with artist Guido van Helten to Akureyri - a town on the north coast of Iceland, to produce a very unique work. This 6-minute film documents their journey, and offers insight into the unique personality of one of Australia's most sought after street artists. This project was a self initiated collaboration between Selina Miles and Guido van Helte
Nix + Gerber
An observation of art, partnership, and the creative process -- seen through the lens of post-apocalyptic dioramas. Read the review at Short of the Week! shortoftheweek.com/2016/05/26/nix-gerber/ Directed and Produced by The Drawing Room Featuring Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber Original Music - tonefarmer Sound Design + Mix - Corey Folta Colorist - Phil Choe / Nice Shoes © 2016 The Drawing RoomCast: T
Police are going after Android’s location data
A little-known feature in Android phones is collecting data on where you are. That data is mostly used for marketing, but a Verge investigation found police are also trying to use it to place suspects at the scene of a crime. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: http://goo.gl/2P1
Immerse Yourself in the Rugged Beauty of Ireland's West Coast
The Wild Atlantic Way, on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland, is like stepping into another world.  Both rugged and bucolic, the Wild Atlantic Way boasts rocky coastlines, green hillsides, land and sea adventures, and enough local characters to make you want to return again and again. Read more about Ireland and where to go if you travel there: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/co
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Amid Showdown, Thai Officials Begin Removing Big Cats from Infamous Tiger Temple
Day 3 of rescue operation leads to awful discovery: dozens of dead tiger cubs and other animal parts
Adventures with a Greenpeace Captain
The inside story of the Arctic 30, life in prison, and what it means to be free
Remembering Wildlife Is Wild
Death of Yellowstone bison calf draws attention to perils of non-expert interference with wildlife
The Real Threat to Europe’s Last Primeval Forest: Bark Beetles or Undemocratic Politicians?
Poland’s plans to increase logging in BiaÅ‚owieża may destroy this ancient forest
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Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” – FLNWO #35
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo35-lq.mp3"][/audio]You've probably heard all about Upton Sinclair's 1906 expose of the turn-of-the-century American meatpacking industry and the Chicago stockyards...but everything you've heard about it is wrong. The book wasn't an expose of the meatpackers, the legislation it inspired served to help the industry it sought to punish, and
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Science Is A Single Mind, Learning
The Notrickszone has a post on the trouble with peer review, and the following is my (by now habitual) response: Ordinary people need to understand that there are basically two kinds of scientist when it comes to the peer-review process: 1) Principal Investigators, and 2) Everyone else, including a) Research Associates, who are simply employees, without tenure, who can be "terminated"--f
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US Potty Panic Hysteria - Multimedia edition
You're all going to HellA freshman U.S. Congressman quickly made a name for himself Thursday morning at a weekly early morning meeting of Republican lawmakers. GOP Rep. Rick Allen of Georgia quoted Bible verses and told his fellow Republicans that they are "going to hell" if they vote for the a vital spending bill later that morning because of an attached amendment that would protect LGB
A US Potty Panic Roundup
Anyone who's been watching the US political scene recently must be wondering if they've all suddenly gone crayzeee.The State of North Carolina was first cab off the rank. You see, the city of Charlotte, after years of debate and study, passed an ordinance that added 9 words to existing legislation.Sec. 12-58. - Prohibited acts.(a) It shall be unlawful to deny any person the full and equal enjoymen
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Support The Troops / Empty Words For Betrayed Disabled Veterans
Pause this Memorial Day for a few moments and watch this documentary on how America has in many ways treated many of its active duty veterans like Lab Rats for the past 100 years ~ from WW I through the Gulf Wars, and still continues to pander or answer to the Military Industrial Complex: Allen L Roland, PhD and Disabled US Navy Veteran.   On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at patriotic cerem
Looking For God / Within The Kingdom Of Religious Confusion ~ Book Review
A layman's odyssey every 'open-minded' Atheist, Jew, Christian, Muslim, Agnostic or Spiritual seeker must read!Art Schade's tour de force work of creative fiction which focuses on looking for God in a world of religious confusion brought me face to face with how differently, regardless of religion, we all interpret God in a time of crisis ~ and yet how similar many of these interpretations seem to
The Ultimate Graduation Speech By Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone / Filmmaker Oliver Stone just gave the ultimate commencement address at the University of Connecticut and it was remarkable for both its candor and cold hard truth ~ for what the average college graduate of today will most likely be facing in our interconnected world is that the ultimate gift they are searching for may just be the act of finding themselves and making a difference: All
John Bradshaw / Father Of Inner Child Movement Passes On At 82
Click on Photo to enlargeJohn Bradshaw, a pioneer in the self-healing movement and author of Reclaiming and Healing your Inner child was an important and underrated compass in the field of humanistic psychology. Bradshaw correctly maintained that our ultimate home coming was reclaiming a lost and alone child within ourselves and set the stage for my work in reclaiming the soul of that lost child b
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2 out of 3 potholes fixed
I recently wrote about some potholes. I notified the council, and lo and behold, they’ve had a go at fixing them: Two of the three appear to have been fixed. The third one is still there, unfixed: it has a depression where the buses’ offside front wheel stops, and with a corresponding hump as the tarmac has been moved nearer to the pavement. I see this a lot at Edinburgh bus stops, but I have nev
Trump and Clinton are both unpopular; Sanders should run
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular mainstream candidates since records began, as this chart shows: If Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, as she may well do, Sanders should run as an independent, because he would have a very good chance of winning. If he does, Hillary supporters would no doubt cry foul, and accuse him of being a spoiler and not a real Democrat anyway.
Edinburgh Potholes Come In Threes
I was travelling down Pilton Street North today when I came across a trio of potholes. They were by a bus stop and from the pattern they made I presume the bus braking at the stop has abraided the road, causing them: Note that all three potholes show evidence of having botched repairs done to them, and then the potholes re-forming over the repairs. I have seen this many, many times with potholes,
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Support the Leonard Peltier Statue Project / Take Action w/ Amnesty USA
Take Action by joining Amnesty International USA's call for President Obama to release Leonard Peltier!Featured below is the full post from the Leonard Peltier Statue Project:9″ epoxy resin model, Alcatraz Prison Mess Hall, February 13, 2016 – First “Indians of All Tribes Day.”As you might already know, Leonard Peltier has now spent four entire decades behind bars for a crime he has not committed.
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Evaluating the Visit to Hiroshima
What are we to make of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima? To my ear, President Obama’s speech was oddly unequal to the occasion – and not just because he signaled no new efforts to move in the direction of his aspirational goal of a world without nuclear weapons. Mr. Obama was obliged to repeat this …
Announcing Geo4Nonpro!
There’s a lot of hype about the use of both commercial satellite imagery and crowdsourcing for verification activities. Well, I decided to put those two hands together and build a website with Jeffrey and Catherine (it’s why you haven’t heard from me in forever). Welcome to www.geo4nonpro.org! The idea is to invite a “curated” crowd …
Admitting Non-NPT Members: Questions for the NSG
The Nuclear Suppliers Group in coming weeks may consider an application for membership from India, and perhaps also from Pakistan. Both states possess nuclear weapons and are outside the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Hence, they are states whose nuclear weapon activities the NSG has actively sought to inhibit. In its scope and activities, the NSG …
The Second Coming of MIRVs
Reminder! The book launch event takes place on Monday, May 16, at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. If the Pentagon is to be believed, the second coming of MIRVs is upon us, this time in Asia, with China’s deployment of the DF-5B missile. The advent of MIRVs in the first nuclear age was ruinous to …
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Sponsored Post: FT Pub Quiz Takes Look at Wacky 2016 Election Season
By MARC McDONALDAs many pundits have noted, this has been one of the most wacky and bizarre political campaign seasons in decades. And I sometimes wonder if we've ever faced an election where the voters were less informed on the issues, and the candidates, than they are today.I recall reading once about the early days of television. The great TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, among others, had high hop
Progressive Music Classics. The Clash: "Something About England"
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of working-class people around the world.One of the highlights of The Clash's 1980 underrated masterpiece, Sandinista! is the haunting "Something About England," a song that gives a whirlwind tour of the disasters of the 20th century. Although the song was r
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Ted Cruz Drops Out Of Presidential Race The Same Day Trump Says Accuses Cruz' Father Associated With Lee Harvey Oswald
Remember when Ted Cruz said he was going to fight Donald Trump "ALL THE WAY TO THE END"? Yep, that was just yesterday. But TODAY, Donald Trump mentions that Ted Cruz' father was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald around the time of the JFK assassination, and Ted Cruz IMMEDIATELY drops out of the race. You don't have to put two and two together here. THEN couple it with the fact of doing the
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Bullying Is NOT Leadership Mr. Trudeau.
Bullying is not leadership, whether it is invoking Closure on an important Bill or testosteronic rampaging on the floor of the House of Commons which injured a fellow Member of Parliament. Just sayin' :(
"Trudeau's Rampage"
Trudeau's Rampage it is :)
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Do you ever wonder why Paul Craig Roberts refers to Hillary Clinton as "Killary"? Well read this. This artical was composed by Michael Collins, a friend of mine who writes factual articals on places and people that most U.S. readers would not learn about from the so-called "mainstream media".
What about violence from the Clinton campaign?Posted on May 18, 2016 by Michael CollinsBy Michael Collins (Creative Commons 4.0)Some rough housing at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce their actions. The double standard on this issue is s
Michael Hudson has long believed to me and others as the top economist looking after the rights of the people of the US and Europe. However, my attention to this particular Hudson column was thanks to ace economist Paul Craig Roberts, who summerized it in this way: "In his May 9, 2016, speech to European medical professionals, Michael Hudson points out that the result of TTIP for Europe will be the privatization of health care systems with the associated much higher costs. Hudson’s accurate description of TTIP shows that politically powerful corporations have gained the power in Western “democracies” to sacrifice the welfare of all populations to corporate greed for profit regardless of the cost to peoples, countries, and societies."
MAY 11, 2016 The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP's Threat to Europe's Elderly by Michael Hudson                                                                                                Buy his bookThe most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug trea
For once I am going to forgo composing a preamble, thus allowing you to read Paul Craig Roberts' latest super-important column exactly as he intended.
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China — Paul Craig Roberts May 5, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China  Can the world wake up?Paul Craig RobertsOn September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph reported:“Declassified American government documents sh
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The Curious Case of Michael Sona
These few lines at Radio Canada and Adam Donaldson's Guelph Politico Blog are the only mentions I have found anywhere that Michael Sona, convicted of aiding and abetting unknown perp(s) in an unsolved crime of unknown proportions, lost his sentence appeal last Wednesday and headed back to jail to serve out his nine month sentence.Sona, with nothing to deal and no electronic or material evidence of
Pay to Play in BC with Spectra
Six years ago the BC government decided not to bother doing its own environmental assessments any more because it was so much more efficient to hand that responsibility over to the industry-captured federal National Energy Board for rubber-stamping. That deal was called the Environmental Assessment Equivalency Agreement. In January the BC Supreme Court ruled that the BC government did not have the
National Energy Board Ok's Trans Mountain Pipeline
You're shocked, I'm sure.National Energy Board presser in Calgary today, Robert Steedman :  "The NEB recommends that the Government of Canada find the Trans Mountain expansion project to be in Canada's public interest. ... The project would not likely cause significant environmental effects."The Texas-based Kinder Morgan twinned pipeline will run from Alberta to Burnaby and Burrard Inlet
Marc Mayrand on Election Reform and Referendum
Elections Canada CEO Marc Mayrand at PROC (Procedures Committee), excerpted :"With a majority government in place, as well as a fixed election date of October 21, 2019, there is an opportunity now to bring the electoral process, currently anchored in the 19th century, in line with contemporary Canadian expectations."On holding an election reform referendum as advocated by the Cons :"
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SHOCKER! Fake Clinics Lie
The Abortion Rights Coalition has released a major study into the online presence of Canadian fake clincs, or crisis pregnancy centres (full PDF report).From the press release:Anti-abortion counselling agencies in Canada often present misinformation on their websites or fail to disclose their anti-choice or religious agenda to prospective clients, according to a new study published today by the Ab
March for Lies 2016, Part 2: UMPTY-GAZILLION ATTENDEES!
There were great expectations for this year's March for Lies. First, its traditional organizer, Catholic Campaign Lies, graciously invited all anti-choice groups to participate. And second, Parliament is debating and will pass the tragically flawed medical assistance in dying act, which one would have thought would rev up the "womb to tomb" gang.So the turn-out was going to be MASSIVE, y
March for Lies 2016, Part 1
Clever me. I saved screen shots of the 4/20 marijuana rally from the Hill Cam to compare with March for Lies, Futility on the Hill Bunfest.Top image today at 1:26, just before the marching, at max attendance.Bottom image 4/20 at 4:20.Compare.Speakers at today's bunfest claimed there were 20,000 people there. David Akin, veteran reporter of these events, estimated 4,500, adding that that might be g
Kill C14: Trust Patients and Doctors on Assisted Dying
DAMMIT JANET! has a not-so-radical proposal. Treat medical assistance in dying (MAID) like abortion. In other words, adapt no new law on it and let patients and medical professionals figure it out. In both Carter and Morgentaler, the Supreme Court called on Parliament to craft new laws.In declining to create a Charter exemption, SCC said in the "remedy" section of Carter:Complex regulato
C225: Dead as a Doornail

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