Sunday, June 09, 2019

The relentless slaughter of wolves paved the way for a predator that refuses to die
LAMARCKISM, EPIGENETICS CREATES WOLFCOYOTEDOG A TURDUCKEN BY ANY OTHER NAME


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Coyotes have been taking over the territory of wolves, their mortal enemies, ever since. It is a textbook example of what the recent United Nations biodiversity report said: Humans are creating chaos for wildlife, placing a million species in danger of extinction.

The report warned that mismanaging nature would come back to haunt humans in a variety of ways, including food and water shortages, and disruptions by invasive species.

As the Trump administration seeks to strip away legal protections for the last remaining wolves, state officials are contending with the consequences of a massacre carried out without regard to science.


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Canada’s handling of toxic chemicals and industrial waste shows a “blatant disregard for Indigenous rights”, a UN human rights expert has said following an extensive fact-finding mission in the country.



UN expert: Canada's toxic waste policy shows disdain for Indigenous rights
Special rapporteur Baskut Tuncak urges government to engage with groups who live near toxic sites and respect basic human rights
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Gas accounted for nearly half of the total increase in worldwide energy consumption. A golden year for natural gas means it’s been a disastrous year for the climate.
In a world where millions of lives and livelihoods are already being destroyed by rising global temperatures, there is no future in fossil fuel growth.
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DARK PHOENIX WAS AN EPIC X MEN COMIC SERIES BY CHRIS CLAREMONT
THE MOVIE FAILS (UPDATED)

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The X-Men Movies are going out on a low note...



X-Men: Dark Phoenix Debuts With Lowest Opening In Franchise's History
It seems like the X-Men movies franchise be going out on a low note at the box office. Dark [


Why the latest 'X-Men' movie, 'Dark Phoenix,' was doomed from the start

Travis Clark
Jun. 6, 2019, 10:55 AM


Sophie Turner as Jean Grey in "Dark Phoenix." Fox




"Dark Phoenix" is the latest "X-Men" movie, but it dropped that designation from its title in the US.

However, the movie is called "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" in most international territories, where the "X-Men" franchise has always excelled at the box office.

It suggests that the studio Fox, after nearly 20 years, had lost faith in the "X-Men" brand in the US.

The movie was also postponed twice to undergo significant reshoots.

"Dark Phoenix," which comes to theaters this weekend, is the 12th "X-Men" movie and the final major one made by the Fox studio before it was acquired by Disney. But the movie dropped the "X-Men" designation from its title in the US, which is one sign it was doomed from the start.

It's the only movie in the main "X-Men" series of films to not include the name of the superhero team of mutants in its title. Spinoffs like "Logan" and "Deadpool" got away with it, but they are far removed from the franchise's main continuity.

The "Dark Phoenix" director and longtime franchise producer and writer Simon Kinberg said the decision to drop "X-Men" from the movie's title was to "indicate that it's a more character-driven movie."


Read more: 'Dark Phoenix' is the worst-reviewed X-Men movie of all time, but the international box office could save it

"We really wanted to indicate that this is the 'Dark Phoenix' story and that she's at the center of this story," Kinberg told Collider in October. "She's the A-plot of this story. Everything around this story revolves really centrally around Jean/Dark Phoenix as really the subject of the movie, not the object of the movie."

But there could be a more sensible reason for the title strategy.

The movie is called "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" in most international markets, and the franchise has always found more success internationally than at the domestic box office. Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio wrote that every "X-Men" movie besides the first three have made more money outside the US.

It suggests that Fox has lost faith in the "X-Men" brand in the US after nearly 20 years of releasing these movies, which isn't a great sign for a movie's success. "Dark Phoenix's" 2016 predecessor, "X-Men: Apocalypse," made just $160 million in the US and received a 47% Rotten Tomatoes critic score. And "Dark Phoenix" is already off to a worse start.

"Dark Phoenix" is the worst reviewed "X-Men" movie yet with a 21% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, which could hurt its chances at the box office.

Boxoffice.com projects "Dark Phoenix" to earn $49.9 million this weekend, which would be the lowest opening in the franchise, behind 2014's "The Wolverine," which made $53 million. Furthermore, it's estimating that it will come in second at the box office, behind "The Secret Life of Pets 2."

The "Dark Phoenix" release date was also postponed twice, which is usually a sign that a movie is in trouble. It was originally set for release in November, then moved to February, and again moved to June. The movie underwent significant reshoots that dramatically altered its ending.

"There was more of a cosmic story … the story ended in space in a much more significant way," the producer Hutch Parker told Digital Spy in May. "We actually shifted that to be back on Earth, most notably, so that we can involve our main characters and see them come together."

No matter what happens with "Dark Phoenix," the franchise's future is in the hands of Disney and Marvel Studios.
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CLASS WAR Doug Ford giving $60 million per week to corporations while cutting wages for one-million+ workers



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KENNEY'S WAR ROOM IS JUST ANOTHER TRANSFER OF PUBLIC MONEY TO OIL GIANTS
Oil companies robbed Albertans during the period when oil prices were high. They paid the lowest royalties in the world to Albertans, as a commission set up by Premier Stelmach determined. When Stelmach tried to raise the royalties by $1 billion, the oil companies bought the Wildrose party, imposed corporate shill Danielle Smith as leader, and forced Stelmach to cry uncle in order to get the oil companies to start financing his Progressive Conservative party once again.


Meanwhile Norwegians, largely extracting oil via a state-owned company, charged royalties many times larger than Alberta's and saved $1.5 trillion Canadian for their citizens for the post-oil era. Alberta, its governments owned lock,stock, and barrel by Big Oil, abandoned Peter Lougheed's modest efforts to save oil revenues for a post-oil era. We have a derisive $20 billion in our Heritage Fund, started in 1975, which means that our average annual savings of less than $500 million a year are about 1.5 percent as large as Norway's annual savings since 1990.
Now Big Oil has its biggest puppet ever in government. Though these companies have continued to make profits during a period of low international prices and their executives get multi-million dollar salaries and perks annually, the Kenney government plans to cut their corporate taxes by a full third to make them the lowest of states and provinces in North America.
And now the taxpayers of Alberta are going to be paying the advertising costs of this rich, taxpayer-subsidized industry that refuses to pay cleanup costs for its messes. The "war room" is just spin for propaganda on behalf of the fossil fuels industry. And at a time when the Alberta goverment and that industry have joined to destroy Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan, they have nothing that is useful to say to Canadians or to people abroad. Under the NDP, the oil industry was being forced to reduce its emissions while the coal industry was being largely shut down. The UCP rejected this "social license" approach and wants the rest of the world to believe that oilsands oil is clean and lovely and pipelines are no threat to oceans or Indigenous people.
The $30 million that is planned to help fat cats in a sunset industry offer their wares would better be spent creating jobs producing renewables. No one is going to be convinced by the con job of the Alberta Cons.


Jason Kenney touts $30M 'war room' but provides few details | CBC News
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney spoke in Calgary with energy industry stakeholders but hasn't announced who will lead a so-called war room to counter what he calls lies spread by opponents of oil and gas development.
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Our alt right Alberta government has been approving social conservative agenda items with dizzying speed. It put a moratorium on medically supervised safe injection centres. It is rolling back education legislation to make it possible for bigoted schools disguised as religious outfits to make it impossible for gay-straight alliances to operate. Now it is getting rid of the former government's efforts to ban conversion therapy. It won't be long before the haters are able to return to abortion clinics to make threats against women seeking abortion and health care providers.

And the Lord looked down on Alberta and said: give them a government that likes to throw stones at everyone who does not fit their narrow view of how people are supposed to behave. A government with stones in its heart. A government with a war room to throw dirt at everyone who disagrees with them. A government that will drastically cut spending on health and education. A government with no concern about the environment [Hmm, or was it the Devil who was doing the looking down].

Conversion therapy working group won't receive funding from UCP
A working group created by the previous Alberta government to study a potential ban on conversion therapy will not be supported by the new UCP government.

 SEE https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=CONVERSION
SEE https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=GAY  

SEE https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=LGBTQ
SEE https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=UCP
SEE https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=KENNEY


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HAPPY FATHERS DAY


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