Driving the news: Calm is hosting a live stream from the San Diego Zoo on Instagram so we can take a break from political doomscrolling to watch capybaras, meerkats, penguins, and other beautiful wildlife.
It starts at noon PT until polls close across the country.
Those humans are so full of fleas, ticks, and bugs because they won't clean each other.
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Between the lines: Calm also has free "Election Season Support" content with breathing exercises, meditations and other mindfulness tools.
🐅 The intrigue: While he won't be featured on the livestream, a new tiger cub is out to play at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Baby Barong, which means "king of spirits," stepped out of his den for the first time last week.
Watch him here or visit him in person at the park this weekend. More
This will blow your mind, as Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com) finds out about Sidney Gottlieb, "Poisoner in Chief," and his CIA mind control program. Abandoned children in Russia are trafficked to Israel, the USA, and Germany [three countries where Nazis stealthily rule today?]
Those bald eagles are totally unreliable, possibly due to DDT contamination of the environment by humans that reaches LA's neighboring forest and waterways at Big Bear Lake, next to Mt. Baldy, which is not named after its nesting eagles.
There are legends of this great bird.
Eaglets are cute and beautiful but, as stated, unreliable. Everyone had their eyes trained on the Eagle Cam. And for what? Nothing but disappointment. Thanks for nothing, corporate polluters, who hurl heavy metals and other contaminants into the atmosphere, landing on bodies of water to poison the fish and selling pellets that kill rodents and poison the birds and mountain lions.
Imagine taking van into the woods to see nature
But good news: the Los Angeles Zoo has succeeded in birthing five critically endangered condors, the majestic vultures of California and other parts of Mexico. (California is, after all, part of Mexico, now divided in two parts, Alta and Baja, but no one has told the birds, who are illegally crossing over into American airspace all the time). There are only approximately 350 condors left in the wild. There are soon to be five more.
Alas, these chicks are not nearly as cute as their hoary cousins of the north. But their mothers and many others may love them all the more for it.
(LA Zoo) California condors have soared in the skies of North America (mostly in Mexico) for some 11,000 years, since the Pleistocene era. Their range once extended across the southern half of North America and along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
With a nine-and-a-half-foot wingspan, these ancient birds can fly more than 100 miles each day in search of carcasses to feed on.
Condors roost on rocky ledges and in treetops, where they can easily launch into the warm air rising in morning thermals.
These vultures are highly intelligent, inquisitive, and social birds. By 1982, the wild population had dwindled down to 22 birds due to human contamination of the environment.
Humans did this largely through lead poisoning from bullets aimed at murdering and injuring living beings, which were left in the carrion (dead beings) the birds consume to survive as they clean up the environment.
In 1987, the last condor was removed from the wild. With a population of just 27 captive birds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Los Angeles Zoo and the San Diego Zoo began an intensive breeding and reintroduction program.
It eventually increased the population to more than 500 birds. The release of condors bred in captivity with human care began in 1992. So far about 300 California condors have been re-introduced into the wild. More
RJ Garcia, AntsCanada, Jan. 14, 2024; Gary Larson, The Far Side (comics); Family Guy video still; Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, and Kelly Ani (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The apocalypse came and went for a new beginning.
When creating a new ecosystem, add all of the elements or step out of the way and let Nature do it because, when upset, things can go very bad, but Mother Nature knows how to get back to yin-yang homeostasis (Gary Larson/The Far Side).
An Ant War broke out after introducing water beasts into giant rainforest vivarium
One ant's hell is another's heaven.
(AntsCanada) In a giant cloud rainforest vivarium, called "Pantdora," an unexpected revival of an ant war broke out.
The trouble came after adding a team of aquatic creatures to the pond, which upset the current ecosystem.
To fix one problem, another was unexpectedly created.
What were the "sky gods" thinking?
The Creator [the god of this world, Lord RJ Garcia] was shocked to discover the truth about relations between three existing ant colonies within the vivarium; he watched an intense showdown of ants take place.
It opened his eyes to the chilling realities of invasive vs. native animal wars that occur in all ecosystems as organism compete for limited albeit recyclable resources and space.
I don't know. Gas entered the environment then blew up.
For God so loved the world that He gassed it.
Enjoy Part 8 of this Ecosystem Vivarium Series [with added color, commentary, and cartoons from Gary Larson and Wisdom Quarterly]. RJ: "Ant love forever!"
This video was shot in 4K Ultra HD resolution.
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Directed, written, DOP, and edited by AntsCanada. Executive Producer: RJ Garcia.
"We walked into a wasteland," says the BBC's Jeremy Bowen embedded with Israeli militants committing war crimes as they enter Gaza under an IDF banner.
The BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen has travelled with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) into Gaza, Palestine.
While the BBC had editorial control of the report, the section with the IDF has been viewed by them.
The IDF showed the BBC what they said was a Hamas [Al Qassam Brigades] weapons factory, below a home in which children lived.
Subsection
Middle East, published by the BBC on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023.
Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism
Well, well, a human baby. - Look, Mom, a cat!
Human Zoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in the USA in the early decades of the 20th century -- native human beings were made curiosities and entertainments, dehumanized and objectified with the blessings of establishment, white, biased "science."
"A racially charged story that will mesmerize you..."
Often touted as "missing links" between humans and apes, these native peoples were harassed and demeaned. Their public display was arranged with the enthusiastic support of elite members of the scientific community, and it was promoted uncritically by North America's leading newspapers.
This award-winning documentary explores the heartbreaking story of what happened. It shows how African-American ministers and other people of faith tried to push back, and it reveals how some people today are still drawing on Social Darwinism to dehumanize others.
Mandela Effect: new human-sized "bat"
The film explores the tragic story of American eugenics -- which was launched in the U.S. and copied by Nazi Germany, who implemented a genocide during WW II. In the U.S. there was an effort to breed human beings based on Darwinian principles.
Human Zoos was an official selection of the African World Documentary Film Festival and has won awards for best editing (Oregon Documentary Film Festival), best in show (Cinema WorldFest Awards), and awards of excellence from the Impact Docs Awards and the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards.
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We the People of the United States now disrespect the Office of the President (AP).
(ABC News) Donald John Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States today, outlining his forceful if bumbling vision of a new national populism and echoing the same "America first" mantra that swept him to electoral college victory.
UPDATEDThe official inaugural balls are underway in Washington DC. The Liberty and Freedom Balls are being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where the president and first lady are expected first.
Guests at the event enjoyed performances from The Rockettes and Erin Boheme. Another gala is being held at the National Building Museum for veterans and their families where singer Tony Orlando kept waiting guests entertained. President D. John Trump and his foreign-born wife Melania will attend all three of the events before spending their first night in the White House.
War criminal G.W. Bush: "Give him an indictment, not a library" (act.rootsaction.org)
All the MIC's white men, and one half-white one (J. Scott Applewhite/AP/NPR.org)
The Decider mad at VP Dick the Dictator
When Dick "Milhouse" Nixon* shuffled off this mortal coil, the hagiographies began. Newspapers and quick-turnaround weekly news magazines were falling all over themselves to glorify and mis-remember a man who up until then had been America's worst president, so bad that he had been thrown out of office.
Macklemore agrees with Dinah Cancer (of 45 Grave fame) that Dick is not our friend, neither Milhouse nor Cheney, not any Bush, not even the third in the dynasty whom we lovingly refer to as "B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama."
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was a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant ceremony where partisan
differences were set aside. For his part, the honoree said, "Elected
officials must serve a cause greater than themselves, defined by the
convictions they hold." His guiding principle, Bush said, was that "the
United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom [defined not as civil liberties for citizens but as free trade for the military-industrial complex]."
"We stayed true to our convictions," Bush said of his administration [of course, those convictions not being anything at all what the voters had wanted them to be, but never mind what the people wanted; Bush was not running wars not a popularity contest]. He
thanked his father, the nation's 41st commander in chief. He "taught me
to be a president [and I was president, not Dick Cheney!]," Bush said. "Before that, he showed me how to be a
man." More
The environment is in need of saving, for humans as well as the amazing creatures that inhabit planet Earth. Now Norwegian elephant seals may save not only the Antarctic but the entire planet and its creatures like this tiny European tree frog (Nuremberg Zoo, Germany).
TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica – Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, waddles the elephant seal.
The fat-snouted pinniped, two tons of blubber and roar, is plunging to its usual frigid depths these days in the service of climate science, and of scientists' budgets.
"It would take years and millions and millions of dollars for a research ship to do what they're doing," Norwegian scientist Kim Holmen said of the instrument-equipped seals... More>>
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