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Grammar lovers slam Trump for error-riddled tweet
You can never hide from the grammar patrol. While Donald Trump has been criticized for his speeches having the grammar of a fifth-grader before, his tweets have taken the bar even lower — and the internet has noticed. SEE ALSO: Hillary Clinton's new tool lets you #TrumpYourself Trump's tweet from July 24 about Bernie Sanders supporters, which has since been deleted, had quite a few errors that gr
15 office rules no one tells you
The office is a home away from home that we all share for eight hours every day. However, some people need to stop treating it like a home. We are sharing this space. Let's take a tip from the days of freshman-year roommate contracts and all get on the same page. SEE ALSO: 10 office pranks that won't get you fired. Probably. Here are 15 office dos and don'ts that none of your coworkers are brave
Defense firm buys out hoverboard company
The jet-powered Flyboard Air hoverboard may soon be seeing use in a range of military applications. Originally developed by Zapata Industries, the imp...
Super-Hard Metal ‘Four Times Tougher Than Titanium’
Via: BBC: A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold. The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists. The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say. Conventional knee and hip […]

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Seemingly Decent Human Being’s Involvement in 2016 Election Confuses Voters
MIAMI ( The Borowitz Report )—The involvement of a seemingly decent human being in the 2016 election campaign left American voters stunned and deeply bewildered on Saturday. See the rest of the story at newyorker.com Related: Tim Kaine, en EspaƱol “Moods and Activities” Playlists I Wish Spotify Would Add Other Things That Will Remain Open on Amity Island, According to Mayor Vaughn
Clinton campaign blames Russia for leaked DNC emails about Sanders
‘Experts are telling us that Russian state actors’ hacked DNC and stole emails Senator finds emails ‘outrageous’, but saves criticism for DNC chair and Trump Democratic convention: fight for America’s soul moves to Philadelphia Obama: Trump’s Nato comments reveal ‘lack of preparedness’ on foreign policy Hillary Clinton’s campaign has accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 presidential election, s
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Out As Democratic Convention Chair After Email Leak
The leak came just days before the Democratic National Convention begins Monday.
Goebbels’s Secretary Struggles With Her Responsibility
Brunhilde Pomsel, a witness to the Nazis’ inner circle, offers an unflinching glimpse into the mentality of the era in the film “A German Life.’’

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The U.S. Blew $1.4 Billion on Abstinence Education in Africa
The effort was supposed to prevent the spread of HIV—but it didn’t work, according to the most comprehensive study of the program -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The U.S. Blew $1.4 Billion on Abstinence Education in Africa
The effort was supposed to prevent the spread of HIV—but it didn’t work, according to the most comprehensive study of the program -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
James Cameron Thinks Neill Blomkamp's Aliens Sequel Script Is 'Gangbusters'
James Cameron put it very delicately when he admitted he didn’t like Star Wars: The Force Awakens . But he has no such restraint when discussing the sequel to his Aliens , the polarizing Alien 3. It begins with the cruel discovery that Aliens ’ hard-fought survivors—other than Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley—have all perished. Read more...
The Most Amazing Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con, Day Three
Yesterday was a huge day for Comic-Con—and that meant it was a day for even more incredible Cosplay all over the place. Here’s our favorites from what we saw walking the convention floor on day three. Read more...

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NICELY
NICELY Hommage Ơ tous les NiƧois. Parce que Nice est et restera toujours Nissa la Bella. Tribute to all the people of Nice. Because Nice is and will remain Nissa la Bella. // Gears : 5DIII / 35mm 1.4 / 50mm 1.4 / 100mm 2.8 // Music : Kitty Hawk by Doug Kaufman ( atomikmusic.com/ ) Cast: Fabien Ecochard Tags: Nice , France , Nissa , Promenade des Anglais , NiƧois , French riviera , CƓte d'Azur , T
The Unknown - Jesper Baker
The first of an on-going series of stop-motion shorts called The Unknown. This part concerns a little fellow named Jesper Baker. A man who has found himself stuck in life. Made possible by the VSCO Artist Initiative™ Director - Sean Pecknold Art Director + Set Designer - Adi Goodrich (adigoodrich.com) Jesper Baker - Jeffrey Pillars Moth - Odette Joannidis Co-Worker - Ian Russell Animator - Sean P
Banned For Being a Woman: Boxer Doesn’t Stop Fighting
Cuba has a prolific Olympic boxing record, and yet the country doesn't allow female boxers to go to the Olympics. Namibia Flores Rodriguez is a female Cuban boxer. She's trained every day for years, readying herself for when that ban is lifted, with the single objective to represent Cuba and become an Olympic champion. She's faced every stereotype that a woman who wants to box can face. This shor
Watching SpaceX land a Falcon 9 rocket
Last weekend we traveled down to Cape Canaveral, Florida to see SpaceX launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets to the International Space Station. But what we were most excited to see was that same rocket land back on Earth. Subscribe: https://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video catalog: https://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: https://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1a

The Corbett Report   

Interview 1193 – Sibel Edmonds Dissects the Turkish Coup
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-07-18%20Sibel%20Edmonds.mp3"][/audio] As we predicted last year, the deep state coup against Erdogan finally materialized last weekend...but it fizzled out almost as quickly as it arrived. So what are we to make of this would-be putsch? Did Erdogan allow it to happen in order to further cement his control on the rebound? Or was this mere
Interview 1195 – Michel Chossudovsky Explains Why Brexit Is A Blow to the Oligarchs
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-07-20%20Michel%20Chossudovsky.mp3"][/audio] In order to understand Brexit in its full historical context, we must know about the origins and motivations for the formation of the European Union and the forces that have shaped the EU bureaucracy into an arm of the IMF/World Bank-led Wall Street hegemon. Today Professor Michel Chossudovsky

The EnvironmentaList  

When it Comes to GMOs, the Devil is in the Details
Unresolved safety questions about gene-editing technologies underscore need for caution
The Right Climate for Learning
Climate change education, and mitigation, in our national parks
Rare Leopards Released into Russian Reserve Threatened by a Ski Resort
Three endangered Persian leopard cubs are intended to reintroduce the species to the Sochi area
How Butterfly Farmers Are Safeguarding the Forest in Kenya
Community-based conservation project helps transform former loggers into forest advocates

The Rules of Exposition   

Use over time
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson   

On the road again: My writing goes wandering
Delighted to have my writing appearing on other sites every now and then, the most recent examples being in the online B.C. newspaper The Tyee and as a guest blogger on the web site Naked Truth run by self-described "anarchist stripper mom" Annie Temple. Hope you'll check them out! The piece I wrote for The Tyee grew out of some conversations I had this week about my own experiences with
When good words go bad: The usurping of trafficking as a weapon against sex workers
Were I a cartoon character, I expect I'd have big red flags and maybe some small explosions coming out of my head these days after reading the Ontario government's news release this week about its big new anti-trafficking initiative. I'm all for ending trafficking, of course. But the issue is increasingly emerging as some kind of stealth instrument for attacking people working in the sex industry
When good words go bad: The usurping of trafficking as a weapon against sex workers
If I were a cartoon character, I expect I'd have big red flags and maybe some small explosions coming out of my head these days after reading the Ontario government's news release this week about its big new anti-trafficking initiative. I'm all for ending trafficking, of course. But the issue is increasingly emerging as some kind of stealth weapon for attacking people working in the sex industry,
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A Different Perspective 

UFO Sightings and Job Security
Got a telephone call the other morning from a guy who had seen a UFO, or rather multiple UFOs, but had not reported them because he feared for his job. He was sure that if he reported them, his superiors would deem him unworthy of his position, or more to the point, think that he was crazy because, as we all know, only crazy people, or drunks, see UFOs. I suggested that very few people had ever l
Socorro, New Mexico and Lonnie Zamora - Revisited 2016
On April 24, 1964, Lonnie Zamora, a police officer in Socorro, New Mexico, spotted a landed object and two small humanoids standing near it. According to the Project Blue Book files, Zamora was chasing a speeder when he heard a loud roar and saw a flash of light in the southwestern sky. Fearing that a dynamite shed on the edge of town might have exploded; Zamora broke off the chase and headed in
My List of the Best UFO Cases
For decades I have avoided answering the questions about what I believe to be the ten best UFO cases. I understood it to be a trap. Once I provide the answer, the debunkers would attack, explaining why those cases are nothing spectacular. There would find mundane answers for all of them, even if they have to make up the answers, which is not an unreasonable assumption. I have discussed the Coyne
Chasing Footnotes - Roswell and Original Sources
This is another of those posts that chases footnotes and though it begins with Richard Dolan, he is merely the starting point and this isn’t a criticism of his scholarship… well, maybe a little bit but you’ll understand as we get deeper into this. As an aside, and one that is not directed at Dolan here, I wonder how it is that some lies seem to mean nothing in our world of the UFO and simple mist

A.E.Brain   

Certifiable
Updating a previous post... the act will come into force on the 29th August 2016. Touch wood. Then I can apply for the appropriate Recognised Details certificate, which I can then use to apply for a UK Gender Recognition Certificate, which I can then use to apply for a corrected UK Birth Certificate... which will then allow me to, amongst other things, not only board aircraft in the US and Canada,

Activist Teacher   

Today's national news: Canada will lead a new NATO battlegroup against Russia!
Happy Canada Day! (today's news!) Liberal Canada is more war mongering than was Harper. Selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite an election campaign message of change and of peace keeping, and now threatening Russia in order to satisfy insane US geopolitical machinations. Systematically gutting its own economy in order to become an arms dealership for the US-allied war machine. Russia is
Evolutionary anthropology and racism
From an anthropological perspective, humans are all racist and have always been racist. Evolutionary anthropologists call racism "parochialism" and "in-group favoritism" and show it to be a fundamental characteristic in species, including primates and humans, that form hierarchical social orders. This anthropological understanding informs us that the "solution" is NOT
Evolutionary anthropology of police practice of containment of targeted populations, and of self-defence strategies including rockets and boycott
By Denis G. Rancourt, PhD SUMMARY: I show that the de facto police practice of constant random harassment by carding (demanding identification) and a spectrum of other means, combined with less frequent unprovoked executions and prosecutions using false charges, in containing groups targeted for containment is exactly the most effective and efficient strategy for hierarchical containment

Allen L Roland's Weblog   

Hillary Clinton'S General Election Strategy / It'S My Turn So Deal With It
Imperious Q ueen Hillary at the Podium When things get to politically hectic or unpredictable, I usually turn to humor or satire to help lead me to another perspective and in the case of this year's 2016 Presidential election ~ the Onion brilliantly assists along with a weekend major WikiLeaks release which nails Hillary on her principle character flaw, trustworthiness: Allen L Roland. PhD "
Donald Trump'S General Election Strategy ~ Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
When things get to politically hectic or unpredictable, I usually turn to humor or satire to help lead me to another perspective and in the case of this years 2016 Presidential election ~ the Onion brilliantly delivers: Allen L Roland. PhD With the primaries behind them, the presumptive nominees from both parties must now assess how to approach the general election. Here is how Donald Trump is st
Stop Bombing, Shooting And Listen / Ex Cia Agent Speaks Out
In light of President Obama's drone assassination program with countless collateral civilian deaths as well as worldwide blowback terrorist attacks, such as recently in Iraq, with thousands of senseless civilian deaths ~ perhaps it's time, voiced by many Americans this Independence day, for America to take the lead, stop its War of Terror and begin to listen to our enemies, as former undercover C
Preparing For The Final Event Horizon Of Death
A Black hole in space with its center of convergence is similar to the center of convergence or singularity deepest within ourselves. Black holes in space are in stark reality reminders of 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
 
 

Amused Cynicism   

Twas Brexit and the Slimey Goves
Twas Brexit and the slimey Goves, Did lie and grumble in the Mail. All Menschy were the Boris droves, And Farage starts to wail. Beware the Brexiteer, my son, The fear that bites, the lies that catch. Beware Teresa May and shun, Her frumious randy snatch. With Sturgeon’s speech in hand, went he, Long time the bigot foe he sought, So rested he, in the EEC, And prepped his speech for court. And as
Brexit and Scotland
Scotland voted to remain in the EU. It also voted, two years ago, to remain in the UK. Clearly Scots believe that we’re better off as part of a larger entity. But which one? Some reasons why Scotland should choose the EU over the UK: 1. The “better together” argument is that we are better off as part of something bigger. The EU is bigger than the UK. 2. The converse of being part of something big
 

Angola 3 News   

Just Stand: A Video Interview With Albert Woodfox
(PHOTO: Albert enjoys a canoe ride in Austin, Texas.) Since Albert’s release on his birthday, February 19th, a few short months ago, he’s been really busy… After nearly a month of visiting with family and friends in New Orleans sharing more birthday cake than he’s been able to consume in over forty years, Albert has been catching up with his dreams. This trio of video-interviews with Albert recor

ArmsControlWonk 

3D Modeling as an Analytic Tool
For a few years now, we here at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and our benevolent overlords at the Nuclear Threat Initiative have been using 3D modeling as a way to create flashy visuals to engage the public. We do so to remind them that nuclear missiles are (a) horrifically dangerous instruments of …
Congressional Hearings as Inquisitions
During the 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy convened hearings to discover Soviet moles in Hollywood, the State Department and the U.S. Army. The Army-McCarthy Hearings led to his downfall. Abusive practices by Committee and Subcommittee chairmen (no women) were reined in. Occasionally, hearings even became vehicles for serious and sustained investigations. Senator J. William Fulbright of …
MH17 Anniversary
A joint post by Catherine Dill, Jeffrey Lewis, Melissa Hanham and David Schmerler Two years ago, on 17 July 2014, someone shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight Number 17 (MH17) over an area of Ukraine held by Russian-backed separatists, killing all 298 persons aboard. The Dutch Safety Board has now concluded that the aircraft was shot …
Alliances and No First Use
The Bill Clinton Administration made a questionable call to expand NATO after the Cold War ended. The George W. Bush Administration made matters far worse by expanding NATO up to Russia’s border in the Baltics and pushing club membership further east, lobbying to include even Ukraine and Georgia. The action/reaction syndrome then kicked in – …
Club Membership
Kashmir on the Boil
 
 

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Ted Cruz shows he only cares about himself by not endorsing Donald Trump in GOP convention speech
By MARC McDONALD From CNN on Wednesday night: Ted Cruz sensationally withheld an endorsement of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, earning a chorus of boos from the floor before he was upstaged in a power play by the GOP nominee himself. In many ways, Cruz is the ultimate modern-day Republican. He is greedy and only cares about himself. Despite his rhetoric, he doesn
Shocking Brexit Result A Huge Blow For Anglo-American Capitalism
By MARC McDONALD British voters' decision to leave the European Union will have an enormous impact on the global economy for years to come. I expect there will be a number of losers as a result. I think Britain eventually will rue the day it decided to leave the EU. And I think the U.S. will also suffer as a result of this momentous vote. But in the long run, the biggest loser is the entire syste
"The New York Times" Still Peddling Long-Debunked Bill Clinton Haircut Myth
By MARC McDONALD In 1993, the mainstream media peddled the myth that a Los Angeles airport shut its runways for an hour so President Bill Clinton could get a haircut. There was only one problem: the story was complete bullsh*t. That's OK. The media does sometimes screw up. Nobody's perfect. There's only one problem. Here we are, nearly a quarter of a century later and the media is still peddling

Big Dan's Big Blog 

Fake Coup In Turkey Presented As Real By The Mainstream Media
Not too many miles from that contractor's air base in Iraq military coup = Mossad Turkey coup: President Erdogan says military elements guilty of 'treason', as he tells nation government is in charge, after violent clashes in Ankara and Istanbul leave '161 dead' Turkey coup: military attempt to seize power from Erdogan as low flying jets and gunfire heard... Tell me that everbody in DC didn't kno
Off The Table Of Discussion: U.S. Cops Are Trained In Apartheid Israel
Part of the national discussion during this time of cops vs blacks & protesters should be the fact that U.S. cops are trained in apartheid Israel. It's a simple formula: police kill 3 U.S. citizens a day - U.S. police are trained in apartheid Israel: U.S. BLACKS = SUBHUMAN PALESTINIANS to the police. 3 U.S. citizens killed by police per day = SUBHUMAN PALESTINIANS. Why did every large city se
Fourth Of July: Arrest Rita Katz & SITE For Terrorism
Rita Katz IS A TERRORIST!!! With the major American holiday being celebrated today, you can expect to see terrorist threats from radical Islamists, according to Rita Katz and her SITE group. Don’t forget that it was Katz that brought us all those videos of IS headchoppers that were utterly fraudulent, complete fakes, propaganda designed to introduce a new, terrifying bogey man to the US public an

Buckdog   

"This Is How Fascism Comes To America" ....
This is How Fascism Comes To America by Robert Kagan - The Washington Post "The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative” principles, all would be well. But of course the entire Trump phenomenon has nothing to do with policy or ideology. It has

Cherchez la Verite   ( BTW I make that title as

  [You ] Find the Truth  - from the Latin Veritas )

The carefree times I grew up in the United States are now lost to young Americans growing up in the U.S. of today. Here John W. Whitehead explains the decent of today's young people into a world where "…the powers-that-be want us to feel powerless to protect ourselves and reliant on and grateful for the dubious protection provided by the American police state." To this he adds: "The tree of liberty is dying."
Commentary There Will Be No Second American Revolution: The Futility of an Armed Revolt By John W. Whitehead July 18, 2016 “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison America is a ticking time bomb. All that remains to be seen is who—or what—will set fire to the fuse. We are poised at what seems to be the pinnacle of a manufa
 

DAMMIT JANET!   

Fatally Flawed Survey on C225, "Cassie and Molly's Law"
It's a truism because it's true: You get what you pay for. Cathay Wagantall, sponsor of the latest sneak attack on abortion rights , C225, glurgily nicknamed "Cassie and Molly's Law," bought six questions on a Nanos omnibus poll . Here's her media release trumpeting the results. According to the Nanos poll, a majority of Canadians are in favour of Cassie and Molly’s Law, with nearly 70%
Fake Clincics Now Breaching Confidentiality to Nutbar Stalkers
We've all the seen the ads. Variants on the one above, used on the recent Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada report on the lies told by crisis pregnancy centres, aka fake clinics. Our pal, Cliff at Rusty Idols spotted one in Calgary for the subsequent phase of the slut-shaming process, the "post-abortion trauma" counselling. Fake clinics claim to offer "non-judgmental options"
No, Not This One: But Three from Pembroke, Ontario?
In healthcare, patient confidentiality is taken pretty seriously. Here's Ontario's legislation . Three Ontario hospital workers were prosecuted for snooping into Rob Ford's records . And a fetus fetishist was fired after she accessed hundreds of patient abortion files. It comes as no surprise then that crisis pregnancy centres (CPCs), pretending as they do to be actual clinics, would also give str
Oh CAPSS, Where Art Thou?
An umbrella group for fake clinics in Canada is Canadian (formerly Christian) Association of Pregnancy Support Services (CAPSS) . It used to have its "core documents" online but pulled them sometime recently. Nonetheless, we at DJ! have obtained copies. Here is its "Code of Counselling Ethics." Note numbers 6 and 12. They seem to conflict a bit, don't they? But number 12 is pre
 

Did You Know   

Plastic is killing us and our wild life.
So this is going to be a short story for the time being but I will be adding to it. Some o you have noticed the Osprey nests I posted about earlier. They give you a gimps into different worlds. I will also add a few more on this post for everyone to view. Some are good some you have to wonder about. First of course is a bit on plastic. Scary stuff Right It should scare you. Guess who is responsib
The Osprey World A Must to See
This is far from any other story I have ever posted For anyone, who wants a real reality show, thee are the ones to watch, I am only going to talk about few here, but there many around the world. Each is an Island unto itself. No two nests or sites are the same. The Osprey itself is also and Island unto itself. Summer is here and the children are out of school. There are a few places I will recom

Dr Cintli  

 

The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America
I've been on the road and have been neglecting this page. Thought I would post an article I recently wrote for Truthout's Public Intellectual Page Re the 2020 Census. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36514-the-2020-census-and-the-re-indigenization-of-america
 
 

Fort McMurray Adventures   

Early Morning
Having a pretty productive day yesterday as far as tackling my list of errands, I jumped at the opportunity to head out early this morning with one of my tenants who wanted to do a little fishing at a small pond just off the highway south of town. I haven't fished in a few years but I grabbed my binoculars and tagged along for some fresh air and to see what birds might catch my eye. It was pretty
Sorry, But I'm Not Desperate
Have you ever gotten one of those political fliers in the mail? I have. Normally, I don't pay them much attention as they are full of loaded questions that reverberate within the politicians own little echo chamber. Usually these things find their way into my recycling bin long before they ever see the inside of my house. This particular one from my MP, David Yurdiga, however, caught my attention
Hangingstone
Having a pretty productive day yesterday as far as tackling my list of errands, I jumped at the opportunity to head out early this morning with one of my tenants who wanted to do a little fishing at a small pond just off the highway south of town. I haven't fished in a few years but I grabbed my binoculars and tagged along for some fresh air and to see what birds might catch my eye. It was pretty
New Territory
I started out the year with the goal of getting big numbers for my birding list. One of my challenges is that, while I do tend to see a lot of birds, I tend to be a bit limited on the number of species I see. There are a few reasons for this, some of which are under my control. One of the things I started doing last year was moving around more and exploring other locations. (Two trips to BC reall
Fat Cats

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