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Sound the alarms: Simone Biles finally met Zac Efron
Is there anything Simone Biles can't do? The unstoppable gymnast just won her fifth medal of the Rio Olympics — that's four gold, one bronze — and is now pretty much universally regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time. You'd think things couldn't possibly get better, right? Then Biles met Zac Efron, her well-documented #1 crush. SEE ALSO: Bow down to badass Simone Biles According to many, ma
Astrophysicist had the perfect response to climate change denier
It's August and climate change deniers/trolls are clearly out and about, as a grim exchange between physicist Professor Brian Cox and climate change denier Malcom Roberts shows . SEE ALSO: Physicist explaining climate change to a skeptic on TV is grim viewing Another astrophysicist had to face off trolls after she shared on Twitter her worries over the consequences of climate change: Dr. Katherin
Weird googly-eyed squid found on sea floor
A recent deep-sea expedition off the coast of California has revealed a rather unusual looking creature. Discovered by the research vessel EV Nautilus...
Is Proxima Centauri home to a second Earth ?
Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system. Astronomers have detected thousands of new plane...
 

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Q&A smackdown: Brian Cox brings graphs to grapple with Malcolm Roberts
One Nation senator-elect asks repeatedly for ‘empirical data’ – and the celebrity physicist has plenty at hand The celebrity physicist Brian Cox came prepared to the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night with graphs, ready to counter claims by his co-panellist, the climate denier and Australian senator-elect Malcolm Roberts . Roberts, one of four senators elected from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, t
Louisiana’s quiet crisis: Cable news and the folly of disaster porn coverage
A young girl silently looks back at her family after being rescued from floodwaters that overtook Comite Drive and the surrounding neighborhoods in Central on Saturday. (Credit: The Advocate/Caroline Ourso) Louisiana is underwater. If you don’t live in or around Louisiana, you may not know that. And it’s not your fault. Cable news has mostly ignored it. Sure, there’s been coverage, but not as muc
Anjem Choudary convicted of supporting Islamic State
Notorious hate preacher faces up to 10 years in prison after swearing allegiance to Isis, it can now be revealed Anjem Choudary, one of the most notorious hate preachers living in Britain, is facing jail after being found guilty of supporting Islamic State. Having avoided arrest for years despite his apparent sympathy for extremism and links to some of Britain’s most notorious terrorists, Choudar
Have scientists discovered a fifth fundamental force of nature?
A recent analysis of data from scientists in Hungary may reveal a new kind of particle that is not predicted by the Standard Model of physics, possibly pointing to a fifth fundamental force of nature.
 

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10 Biggest Historical Mysteries That Will Probably Never Be Solved
From the identity of Jack the Ripper to the location of Cleopatra's tomb to the fate of the Ark of the Covenant, some historical mysteries may never be solved. Perhaps that makes them even more intriguing.
Googly-Eyed Purple Squid Sighting Delights Scientists
Scientists could not believe this googly-eyed animal was real.
This Supercomputer Will Try to Find Intelligence on Reddit
Researchers at OpenAI are developing algorithms capable of learning language by reading the Web and controlling robots through practice.
Physicist claims to have observed quantum effects of Hawking radiation in the lab for the first time
(Phys.org)—Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at the Israel Institute of Technology, has published a paper in the journal Nature Physics describing experiments in which he attempted to create a virtual black hole in the lab in order to prove that Stephen Hawking's theory of radiation emanating from black holes is correct —though his experiments are based on sound, rather than light. In his paper, he cla
 

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Breakup - Roads To Rome
DIRECTOR Maceo Frost maceofrost.com CHOREOGRAPHER BamBam Frost IDEA & CONCEPT Maceo Frost & BamBam Frost D.O.P. Maceo Frost Max Larsson GAFFER Olle Molander P.A. MÃ¥ns Gullgren STYLIST Linn Eklund EDITING & GRADE Maceo Frost PRODUCER Mia Salazar Georg Bungard PRODUCTION CO’ Nuet STUDIO LOCATION Edge Studio Cast: Maceo Frost Tags: dance , art , bw , black and white , mövi , gyro , rigg
Ciao, Starbucks!
Starbucks is opening its first location in Italy, and they're making some changes so their customers will feel at home. Mamma mia! From: TheEllenShow
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 review
The Galaxy Note 7 is the best big-screened smartphone you can buy, but not because it has the biggest screen, fastest processor, or best camera. It’s simply because it’s been designed from the beginning to be a big phone, and is easier to use than other options. It doesn’t hurt that it’s also water resistant and has a more useful S Pen than ever. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full
Is Swimming With These Endangered Whale Sharks Helping or Hurting Them?
Whale shark swimming tours are a popular tourist draw in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. These tours are promoted as a way to boost the local economy and the conservation of this endangered species, but sometimes the tour operators and tourists don't follow the rules further risking the well-being of the sharks. Read more about whale sharks: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/wha
 

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Louisiana Floods: A “Classic Signal of Climate Change”
At least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to “historic” flooding event
Louisiana Floods: A “classic signal of climate change”
At least six people dead and 20,000 people rescued due to “historic” flooding event
A Helping Hand for Fledgling Puffins and Petrels in Newfoundland
Local conservation group rescues stranded birds, assists them on their way to the ocean
A Refuge in the Mountains
Great Smoky Mountain National Park creates space for wildness, adventure, and imagination
 

The Rules of Exposition   

Not for its economics
From The Economist : David Ricardo showed in 1817 that a country could benefit from trade even if it did everything better than its neighbours. A country that is better at everything will still be “most better”, so to speak, at something. It should concentrate on that, Ricardo showed, importing what its neighbours do “least worse”. If bad grammar is not enough to make the point, an old analogy mig
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A Closer Look: Jody Paterson   

Cranky in Paradise: How life in a fairly perfect place makes us angry
I felt a quick flash of annoyance during a swim this past weekend at Thetis Lake when a group of young people on a raft of floaties cranked up their music a little too much. I then felt an immediate and sobering flash of alarm that a bunch of mild-mannered young people having a little fun in the sun had annoyed me. Could it be that Cranky Capital Regionite Syndrome is already upon me, a mere thre
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
 

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The Roswell Slides - Who Got the Five Grand?
I was reading Tim Printy’s SUNlite (which you can easily find by typing Tim Printy and SUNlite into your search engine or use www.astronomyufo.com/UFO/ SUNlite .htm ). He mentioned that Jaime Maussan had paid Tony Bragalia five thousand dollars for finding another picture of the mummy displayed in the so-called Roswell Slides. This suggested a couple of things to me. Tim Printy First, I wondered,
Alien Photographed at Mutilation Site
Rob McConnell, on his X-Zone Radio program on Thursday, July 21, interviewed Charles Stansburge, who is a MUFON State Section Director covering some fourteen counties in Texas. According to what Stansburge said, at that time, he had taken a photograph, or he had a photograph, that showed an alien creature and something described as a portal close to a mutilation site. He said that he was told by
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
 

Activist Teacher   

"Hate crime" is sick
"Hate crime", as a crime in state statutes, is a feature of a totalitarian society. Democratic societies have only regular crimes and a strong presumption of innocence until proven guilty, with no thought or expression crimes. A regular crime must have a victim (different from the accused, and not society at large) that was actually, measurably and willfully harmed by the actions of the
 

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America'S Dark Side Is Hillary'S Cross Of Iron
A leaked Hillary Clinton email confirms that the Obama administration, with Hillary at the helm, orchestrated a civil war in Syria to benefit Israel. See story ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/08/clinton-email-we-must-destroy-syria-for-israel/ America's Cross of Iron speech was immortalized by President Eisenhower in 1953 as well as his farewell address to the nation in 1961 and he correctly
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 "
The Greening Of America / It'S Final Act Is Approaching
THE GREENING OF AMERICA / IT'S FINAL ACT IS APPROACHING The Greening of America is a 1970 book by Charles A. Reich. It is a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s and its values. Excerpts first appeared as an essay in the September 26, 1970 issue of The New Yorker. The book was originally published by Random House . In 1970, Charles Reich wrote The Greening Of America , a book that profoundly i
It'S In Our Hands, There Is Another Choice ~ Jill Stein For President
T he successful Bernie Sanders populist movement was most definitely grassroots and anti-establishment and now that Bernie has submitted to the Clinton machine, which raised its ugly head at the Democratic Convention and showed its true colors, there is no one in the movement more effectively carrying the progressive anti-war message than Green Presidential candidate Jill Stein ~ whose trusted pr
 

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Albert Woodfox and Robert King in New York City, August 7 and 8
On Sunday, August 7, Robert King and Albert Woodfox will be at the Law For The People Convention in New York City, organized by the National Lawyer's Guild . They will be speaking on the Solitary Confinement panel from 1-2:30 pm. Then on Monday, August 8, Albert and King will appear at a book signing, from 6-9 PM at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street, in NYC.
 

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Machine Plant managed by Ho Chol Yong
We spend a lot of time reading North Korean propaganda. One interesting thing the North Koreans do is try to obscure the location and purpose of certain facilities. There are a small number of facilities in DPRK propaganda that are identified by the name of the plant manager only. These have always interested me. What …
Donald Trump’s Challenge to Nuclear Orthodoxy
The belief system in nuclear deterrence makes the most sense at the most elementary level: nuclear weapons deter use by an adversary for fear of retaliation in kind. Deterrence therefore requires survivable nuclear capabilities. It doesn’t take much by way of force structure to convey the threat that leaves something to chance, which is the …
The Lesson of Nagasaki
Hiroshima gets all the attention, but Nagasaki teaches the more important lesson. The need to destroy Hiroshima will be forever debated, but the counterarguments were unpersuasive to President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson. A world war had taken the lives of tens of millions. Noncombatants were not spared. When a war-ending weapon …
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 …
 

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Sgt David Clarke Of Milwaukee Gives Speech At RNC On July 18, Then Milwaukee Cop Shoots Black Guy August 13 In Milwaukee, Then Sgt David Clarke Becomes FOX's On-The-Scene Police Expert: HOW CONVENIENT!!!!!!
July 18 unknown Milwaukee black cop (who seems to hate blacks btw...) gives speech at RNC: August 13, about a month later, Milwaukee cops shoot and kill black guy: Guess where the shooting occurrred? In Milkwaukee, where SGT DAVID CLARKE is from! The same guy who gave a speech at the RNC a month ago! And guess who conveniently becomes FOX's "on the scene police expert"? SGT DAVID CLARKE
Are Trump & Hillary Taking Down The GOP AND Rightwing Media?
During the Republican primary, in which Donald Trump ANNIHILATED the rest of the GOP candidates, the establishment Republicans were trying to gather together to take down Trump? Were they right? Was it because they knew HE was taking THEM down? What else can explain Trump's seemingly flipping a switch after the RNC and acting like a complete NUT? It looks like he's throwing the general election t
 

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"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
 

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Craig Murray 

The Dysfunctional United Kingdom
Recently an Angus mother of three infant children was separated from them and jailed for ten months for over-claiming £10,000 per year in benefits. Meanwhile the Duke of Westminster evades £3.6 billion in inheritance tax through a transparently fraudulent use of trusts which “have the option” to give the money to someone else instead. The United Kingdom is a socially backward and sometimes viciou
The Cynicism of Hillary
Hillary Clinton’s completely unfounded claim that Russia was behind the passing to WikiLeaks of Democratic National Committee documents was breathtakingly cynical. It was a successful ploy in that it gave her supporters, particularly those dominating mainstream media, something else to focus on other than the fact that the DNC had been busily fixing the primaries for Hillary. It was however gross
Doune the Rabbit Hole 19-21 August
As regular readers know, this blog is intimately connected to the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival. I always enjoy meeting many of you there in the eponymous Whistleblower bar, and this year the tremendous moral uplift I personally get from our pop-up community will be more welcome than ever, after a difficult few weeks coping with family illness. There are a couple of short videos from last year w
Barbarians at the Gates
A Typical Raiding Party of Corbynistas and Cybernats A key weapon of the neo-liberal establishment in delegitimising the emergence of popular organisation to the left, is to portray all thinkers outside the Overton window as dangerous; actively violent, misogynist and racist. WikiLeaks have once again done the world a great service by publishing smoking gun evidence that the Democratic National C
 

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Balancing jobsjobsjobs with destroying the planet
Brilliant one minute speech New Zealand MP James Shaw made to an almost empty house. .
Loopholes and Libya
Really? Because a mere two weeks ago, Steven Chase was reporting: Ottawa rewrites mandate for screening arms exports "The Canadian government has quietly watered down its own mandate for screening the export of military goods, rewriting parts of the only substantive public statement available on Ottawa’s responsibilities for policing foreign sales." Previous policy on military exports :
Dear Elizabeth May
Letter to Elizabeth May from the former Green Party dcomm : I served as Director of Communications for the Green Party of Canada during the 2011 election. Here is the letter I just sent to Elizabeth May: Dear Elizabeth, Since leaving the employ of the Party in 2011, I have kept quiet, avoiding commenting on or becoming involved in party activities and policies. I do feel compelled to comment now,
Another Clark Park Day in BC
So remember this? April 2014 Natty Post: Christy Clark once served as chairwoman of B.C. company that she has promoted since becoming premier "The 2007 document has surfaced one week after it was revealed that the Premier was a partner in her former husband’s lobbying firm, which formerly listed its office at her residence and boasted such clients as Enbridge and B.C. Rail. In the fall of 20
 

DAMMIT JANET!   

BREAKING! Feminist™ PM Declares "What's Sauce for the Goose. . ."
DAMMIT JANET! has learned that Canada's feminist Prime Minister has taken note that just about nobody is pleased with Health Canada's idiotic rigorous dispensing rules for the so-called abortion pill, Mifegymiso. From Newfoundland and Labrador , to Prince Edward Island's pharmacists and physicians , to Manitoba and British Columbia , just about everybody who has anything to do with reproductive h
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%
 

Fort McMurray Adventures   

Cairn
A simple stone cairn lies not far from the Clearwater River commemorating what was once a vitally important link in Canada's cross-country transportation system. While having long been surpassed by road, rail and air, the Methye Portage (also known as the Portage La Loche) played a key role as the link between the Athabasca River and Lake Winnipeg. At a length of around 19km (12 miles) it the lon
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
Deluge
As if dealing with the aftermath of the largest civil evacuation in Alberta history wasn't enough, parts of the city are now dealing with the aftermath of yesterday's deluge of rain. I suspected it was going to be an unusual day when I was woken up early yesterday morning by some pretty intense thunder and lightening. In a span of about 2 hours the city reportedly received something in the neighb
Borealis Park and The Snye
For the second part of yesterday's trip, I left the Snye for a few minutes to take a look at a small pond at Borealis Park. It was my first time here in quite awhile and usually I can find something of interest swimming around....more grebes and common goldeneye as it turned out. A good reminder that yesterday's retreat from the far side of the Snye was a good idea. Once back to the Snye, I didn'
 
 

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Mexico: A UFO in San Baltazar Atlimeyaya?
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Grafico (www.elgrafico.com.mx) Date: 08.16.2016 Article by Yohanan Díaz Vargas Mexico: A UFO in San Baltazar Atlimeyaya? 08.13.2016-14:49 - An impressive UFO sighting was recorded at San Baltazar Atlimeyaya, Puebla, on Saturday 6 August at 10:58 p.m. before the startled eyes of nearly 50 people who met to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Great UFO Wave of 1991 or
Diminutive UFO Occupants or Elementals?
Diminutive UFO Occupants or Elementals? By Scott Corrales (c) 2016 Traditional cases involving “close encounters of the third kind” are as rare as hens’ teeth these days. These occurrences – involving contact between alleged non-human entities and ordinary humans – filled magazine articles and news columns in the ‘60s and ‘70s, petering out in the 1980s as UFO research went into a deep sleep, or
Mexico: Are UFOs Tampering with Volcanos?
Source: El Gráfico (Mexico) Date: 07.16.2016 Mexico: Are UFOs Tampering with Volcanos? By Yohanan Díaz Vargas An increase in volcanic activity is directly proportional to an increase in UFO sightings. We are dealing with anomalous objects shaped like disks, cigars or spheres flying over the volcanos without suffering any ill effects, as they appear to be impervious to the high temperature in the
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters
The Uneasy Skies: A History of Airliner and UFO Encounters By Scott Corrales 1991 seems so long ago that the details of what took place so long ago have been erased from the minds of most people, but this is surely not the case with the pilots of a Boeing 727 flight from Barcelona to Madrid. The Iberia airliner was at an altitude of 30,000 feet when it encountered some unexpected and unwelcome co

killing Mother   

Alaska - The Final American Frontier*
3 rd August 2016 March 24, 1989, 12:27 A.M.: “We’ve fetched up hard aground…evidently we’re leaking some oil, and we’re going to be here for a while” – Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazlewood to the U.S. Coastguard The end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at Valdez *Alaska is known as America’s final frontier. A Google search of the term “frontier” yields the following definition: “The extreme limit of
Dawson City and the Top of the World - Thawing Rivers and Wildfires
19th and 20th July 2016 Dawson City feels like the most remote city on Earth. To get there by road, one can travel 532 kilometers northwest from Whitehorse on YT2 or 298 miles northeast from Tok, Alaska on the Taylor Highway and then YT9 (a.k.a. "the Top of the World Highway"). Neither one of these options offers easy open highway. Both involve narrow, two-lane roads, with long areas of
Whitehorse, Yukon - A Start to Healing?
16th and 17th July 2016 Canada's Yukon Territory is one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. The land area, which stretches across 482,443 square kilometers, supports a human population of 37,566 (2015). The capital and most-populous city, Whitehorse, is tiny by city standards, with a population of 23,276 people (2015). The city's namesake, the Whitehorse rapids, once graced the Yukon

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