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This man's complaint about a dead worm in his cucumber escalated hilariously
LONDON — The world of Facebook-based customer complaints can sometimes be a strange, wonderful place. Wes Metcalfe's recent post on British supermarket Tesco's wall is a perfect example of this — it started with a dead worm in a cucumber, and somehow ended with Tesco adapting a famous Oasis song to act as tribute for the worm's funeral. SEE ALSO: British man complains about crooked bread, gets a
Hidilyn Diaz becomes first Filipino woman to win an Olympic medal
Hidilyn Diaz just made history by becoming the first Filipino woman to win an Olympic medal. The 25-year-old Diaz took home the silver medal for the 53kg weightlifting class on Sunday. Diaz completing a lift on Sunday. Image: mike groll/AP Gold medal winner Hsu Shu-Ching, of Taiwan, center, stands with silver medal winner Hidilyn Diaz, of the Philipines, left, and bronze medal winner Yoon Jin-hee
'Alien megastructure' star is still a mystery
Astronomers are no closer to explaining the erratic behavior of this perplexing stellar phenomenon. Originally picked up between the constellations Cy...
Private firm gets approval for moon mission
Moon Express is set to become the first private company ever to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface. The ambitious venture, which aims to land on t...

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Trump Economic Plan Calls for Every American to Inherit Millions from Father
DETROIT ( The Borowitz Report )—At a speech in Detroit on Monday, the Republican Presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, spelled out the details of his economic plan, which calls for every American to inherit millions of dollars from his or her father. See the rest of the story at newyorker.com Related: Donald Trump Sells Out To Trickle-Down Economics Wall Street’s Reluctant Embrace of Clinton Thi
Should people over 40 work a three-day week?
While some work is good for your brain, doing more than 60 hours a week into your 40s is worse than doing nothing, according to a recent survey Working full-time after the age of 40 is not good for the brain. Doing more than three days a week once you reach this age can damage your ability to think. A paper from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research says that, while worki
Corbyn consolidates grip on Labour with high court and NEC successes
After court allows new party members to vote in leadership contest, Corbyn supporters sweep board in NEC elections Jeremy Corbyn has consolidated his grip on the Labour party after he won the first round of the latest high court battle over the rules of the leadership contest – and his supporters swept the board in elections to the party’s ruling National Executive Committee. After another day of
GOP Sen. Susan Collins Says She Can't Support Donald Trump
"Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country," the Maine centrist writes in an op-ed.

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Archaeology team makes world-first tool discovery
How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by a team led by paleoanthropologist April Nowell of the University of Victoria reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in a former oasis near Azraq, Jordan.
Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Got Weirder
"Tabby's Star" has dramatically dimmed and we don't know why.
Jupiter's Effect Will Make Perseid Meteor Shower One to Remember
The Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight on Thursday, Aug. 11, and this year has all the earmarks of being a great year to watch the show, thanks to the effects of Jupiter.
World's Most Hardcore Cat Reappears After 10 Years
Animals The blood-drinking badass has been eluding scientists Don't be fooled by the adorableness. This little dude drinks the blood of his enemies.

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Solo
A grief stricken musician seeks solace in his violin. The frenzied classical performance leads to a surreal and enchanting effect as the piece reaches a bloodied crescendo with the destruction of the instrument. Directed by Abbie Stephens music composed by Joss Holden-Rea and performed by Tobie Trip. made for Channel 4 Random Act abbiestephens.com/ Written and Directed by Abbie Stephens Executive
Instant Mood Booster: Happy Hedgehog
This mood booster really spiked on the cuteness scale! From: TheEllenShow
Capturing the Beauty of Africa’s Wildlife and Fighting to Save It
We lose five elephants every hour, five lions per day, and a rhino every six hours. We are in a race against time to save these magnificent animals from extinction. For the past 30 years, award-winning filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers Dereck and Beverly Joubert have dedicated their lives to protecting and saving key African species. Through the years the Jouberts have created more tha
Mister Sunshine
Meet the millionaire who became a shoeshine man peddling goodwill and cheer throughout Auckland. Director: Eldon Booth, Producer: Alex Lovell Loading Docs is a series of incredible 3-minute documentaries from New Zealand. Watch them all, like and share! loadingdocs.net/mistersunshine Cast: Loading Docs and Run Charlie Films

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India’s First Fully-Organic State Faces Many Challenges to Maintaining its Status
It’s too early to hail Sikkim’s transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers
A Park That Makes Room for Wildlife, Farms, and Cities
Canada’s Rouge National Urban Park embraces a diversity of landscapes
Environmental Records Shattered as Climate Change ‘Plays Out Before Us’
Temperatures, sea levels, and carbon dioxide all hit milestones in 2015, major international ‘state of the climate’ report finds
American Farmers Are Struggling to Feed the Country’s Appetite for Organic Food
Consumer appetite for organic food reached $13.4 bn in the US last year, but only 1 percent of cropland is dedicated to organic farming

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Interview 1199 – Ken Shishido on Fiat Money vs. Bitcoin
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-08-07%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio] On a long enough timeline the value of all fiat drops to zero. Joining us today for a quick tour of the history of monetary devaluation and how it can be avoided is Ken Shishido of the Tokyo Bitcoin Meetup Group.
Interview 1198 – X22: The Clash of Civilizations
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-08-07%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio] Today James joins Dave of the X22 Report to discuss the latest on the geopolitical front, from the ongoing turmoil in Syria to the failed coup in Turkey. Is this all part of the CFR's Clash of Civilizations? And if so, what's coming next?

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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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Free Food and UFOs
A couple of weeks ago I was the speaker for a lunch group that only paid with free food but since that is my favorite kind… free… I accepted, planning to speak about my experiences as a writer and how different things are today. Unfortunately one of the men knew me and my talk turned to UFOs. I provided a quick rundown, but what do you say about UFOs in fifteen minutes? The first question, or com
A Few Personal Notes
Over the last couple of days I have received some inquiries about what has happened to my book Roswell in the 21 st Century (well, at least one). I have also been asked to host a weekly radio program and I am now in search of guests for the program. Finally, apropos of nothing, the views to this blog are now more than two million. First, I had been saying that the book would be available on July
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

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"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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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
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 "
Hillary'S I Am Not A Crook Moment On The Big Stage
Watch closely Hillary's body language as she obviously lies during her recent news conference and how a black aide literally pulls her off the stage before she says too much ~ much like Nixon's body language after his famous I am not a crook speech in 1973 while supposedly welcoming an inquiry from the press about his obstruction of justice: Allen L Roland, PhD Hillary Clinton vs. James Comey: Em
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Not Just Yet for No First Use
The United States is not going to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict. Allies who believe otherwise are attached to a fiction and a psychological crutch. But these allies have been badly spooked, first by Vladimir Putin and now by Donald Trump. Despite Putin’s annexation of Crimea and Russian salami-slicing elsewhere around its periphery, I …

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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
"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

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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
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

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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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That Far Left Entryist Takeover of the Labour Party
At its height in the 1980’s, Militant claimed 8,000 members. In 2013 its descendant, the Socialist Party, claimed 2,500 members and crowed that it was now bigger than the Socialist Workers Party. The SWP replied, not by claiming to have more than 2,500 members, but by saying that the Socialist Party’s claim of 2,500 was inflated. The various manifestations of the Communist Party are smaller. An u
The Entirely Fake Owen Smith
Even the mainstream media feel compelled to drop hints that Owen Smith is not what he is being promoted as. The Guardian’s words yesterday were unintentionally revealing; the former shadow work and pensions secretary plans to pitch himself as the soft-left option Note “to pitch himself”. For PR professional Smith, political stance is nothing to do with personal belief, it is to do with brand posi
Time for Nicola to Pick a Fight
It is time for straight talking. Philip Hammond stated the plain truth when he said that Scotland could not have a different relationship with the EU than the rest of the UK. It is true as a simple technical truth, as I explained . If the UK leaves the EU, the only way for Scotland to remain a member is Independence. Frankly anybody who understands the first thing about the subject knows that and
Mhairi Black on Trident
Note that the government benches are almost empty. The people who bothered to be present and listen to the debate were overwhelmingly those who voted against Trident. With all Scotland’s MPs but one opposing, this is yet another reason to get a move on with Indyref2. I don’t share the criticism of the Tories for calling this debate and vote – it helpfully clarifies that the representatives of Sco
Barbarians at the Gates
The Killings of Tony Blair

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Dear Jason Kenney and Scott Reid
Watching you two in the ERRE committee dragging your feet on implementing electoral reform, I'm reminded of your pioneering work arguing passionately and intelligently in favour of it in the HoC in 2001. Here's you, Jason Kenney , deploring that "Canada is now the only multi-party advanced democracy in the world that has a system of voting designed in and for 16th-century England" and a
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
The BC Shell Game of Public Funds
In the 2013 BC Election, the Liberal party pledged the LNG industry would create $1 trillion in economic activity and a $100 billion prosperity fund. Tagline - "It's no fantasy" Martyn Brown, Gordon Campbell’s former Chief of Staff, reckons Christy Clark and the BC Libs were 'patsies', repeatedly 'duped' by petro industry's sparkling promises of new investments, lots of jobs, and an end
The strategy of the fly
"A terrorist is like a fly that wants to destroy a china shop. Small, low, fly is unable to move not even a cup. So she found an elephant, enters his ear and buzzes until mad with fear and anger, it sacked the shop. Thus, for example, the Al-Qaeda fly led the American elephant to destroy the china shop of the Middle East. Why are they so sensitive to terrorist provocations? Because the legit

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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%

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A New Green History of the World
A New Green History of the World (2007) is the new and improved version of A Green History of the World (1991), which was translated into 13 languages. British historian Clive Ponting did a fantastic amount of research, and then refined it into a very readable, mind-altering 400-page book (a silver bullet cure for folks suffering from denial). It spans the two million year saga of our hominid anc
Neanderthals, Bandits, and Farmers
Colin Tudge wrote Neanderthals, Bandits, & Farmers , a book that presents his theories on the dawn of progress and perpetual growth, focusing on how agriculture really began. At the time, he was employed by the London School of Economics, an institution focused on capitalism, not ecological sustainability. The book vibrates with cognitive dissonance. Tudge has been studying agriculture for ma

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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

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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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Century of War, by Lunartrax - Steve Carlisle
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