A pipeline protester who glued himself to the doors of a Nanaimo bank earlier this year has been sentenced to 12 months of probation — and a court order that he cannot possess glue outside of his home. Victor Lawrence Brice was one of several people who glued themselves to the Royal Bank of Canada branch at Brook’s Landing Shopping Centre on April 7, according to a sentencing decision released posted on the Canadian Legal Information Institute’s website. Brice and others were staging the demonstration to demand that RBC divest from the Coastal GasLink pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia, according to a release at the time from environmental group Extinction Rebellion.

This previously-unpublished essay by the late Charles W. Mills (1951–2021) seeks to demonstrate the racially-structured character of the universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Written long before the popular film series, the essay critically examines Tolkien's novels and comments on the nature of fictional creation. Mills argues that Tolkien designs a racial hierarchy in the novels that recapitulates the central racist myth of European thought.

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The investigation into Marilyn Manson by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department has been sent to Dist. Atty. George Gascón for a decision on whether to file criminal charges against the singer.

Man played British national anthem and pro-democracy protest song to crowds gathered during funeral

Federal prosecutors said some of the defendants — a network of individuals and organizations tied to Feeding Our Future, a Minnesota-based nonprofit — allegedly put the laundered funds toward luxury cars, houses and other personal purchases.

Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities continue to rise in the U.S., with an estimated 7,485 people killed by drivers last year, an increase of almost 15 percent from 2020. Meanwhile, Ford Motor Company thinks it has a solution: A cell phone app. Ford will demonstrate a new app this week at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s World Congress—an industry group comprised of a who’s who of companies that make money selling cars or technology in cars—with the aim of using Bluetooth Low Energy, signals that existing smartphones are capable of emitting, “to communicate their location to a connected Ford vehicle,” a Ford press release stated. “If the vehicle calculates a potential crash risk,” Ford’s infotainment system will, in theory, “alert drivers by the in-vehicle screen showing graphics of pedestrians, bicyclists or more with audio alerts sounding.” It is difficult to envision how this system supposedly works. The idea is that the app would somehow know a pedestrian or cyclist—“even those hidden from direct view” the press release says—is about to emerge in front of your car and create some kind of alert in the car via the app telling you there is someone nearby so you…slow down? Look up? Slam on the brakes? It is not clear what is supposed to happen after this alert occurs, other than to force you, the driver, to pay attention to the road. In theory.

Impressive that President Joe Biden is getting THE Elton John to perform at the White House for him. A lot of low energy presidents wouldn’t be able to do that.

A staggering total of 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg died in 2020 and 2021. Dozens have lost their lives there to drug overdoses. Now, their families are demanding answers — and accountability…

Shira Haas will play Sabra, an Israeli supersoldier, in the upcoming Marvel film “Captain America: New World Order.” The controversial comic book character has some fans worried.

Kiwi Farms announces that it has been hacked, tells users to expect their passwords, email addresses, and other data to leak.

A judge vacated his murder conviction on Monday afternoon, releasing him into home detention pending a new trial.

"That comment to me, that’s going to be the killer. People are just not going to get vaccinated," said Oved Amitay, CEO of The Solve ME/CFS Initiative.

“Yes, we finally unloaded that piece of crap in Denmark we’ve been trying to sell for decades,” Shell’s Steve Lesher told California lobbyist Gavin McHugh last spring. “I wouldn’t put that in this GHG-sensitivity category. That was just a crappy facility.” This exchange appears in a trove of emails and other materials recently made public by a House Oversight Committee investigation into oil industry greenwashing. And the “piece of crap in Denmark” Lesher refers to was probably a refinery in Fredericia owned by Shell’s Danish subsidiary, which was sold to Postlane Partners, a Connecticut-based private equity firm, in early 2021. “GHG” stands for greenhouse gas, and Lesher’s email indicates he didn’t think selling the refinery would make the company more climate-friendly. But the company’s press release on the matter had a decidedly greener spin: “This exit supports our ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner, in step with society.” Lesher’s email offers a window into one way multinational oil companies are trying to present themselves as engines of emissions reduction. Under pressure to cut greenhouse gases in line with “net-zero” targets and maintain their social license to operate—something Shell executives fret openly about in private emails—these companies have come up with a neat trick for making themselves look more climate-friendly: selling their worst-offending properties off to someone else. Lesher’s email, sent in May, also mentioned another sale: Shell’s Deer Park refinery in Houston. That sale, Lesher wrote, is “further evidence that the company is divesting of most of the really energy intensive emitters.” As evidence, he named five other assets Shell purged from its books in the two years earlier. Particularly climate-friendly was Shell’s prior unloading of its Canadian oil sands business, “a big greenhouse gas headache with a lot of NGO opposition.” “No one in the company has said this,” he continued, “but the pattern is pretty clear: if you’re a major greenhouse gas emitter, and particularly if you operate in a GHG-sensitive area like [California, Washington] or [Canada], your days in the Shell family are probably numbered.” What happens to those facilities, though? Those emissions don’t just disappear. Often, they change hands to far less accountable and high-profile companies, usually private equity firms or smaller, privately held drillers, which are content to keep on spewing carbon, methane, and other pollutants into the atmosphere and surrounding communities. In some cases, Shell is perfectly content to keep polluting. “The other pattern to notice,” Lesher wrote, “is where we DO own high GHG intensive things, it’s in areas where they aren’t that politically sensitive about such matters: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Louisiana.” In other words, the places where they can get away with it.

Flag football is among the fastest-growing sports in the United States, and the sport has been surging, particularly among girls and women in Latin America.

An excerpt from legendary tech reporter Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires."

A food company executive was arrested on a pair of charges after reportedly biting a man’s nose in a parking garage in Fayetteville on Saturday night.

Workers on casual contracts in the UK told Insider that their work is closing for the Queen's funeral, and now they're struggling to pay rising bills.

Oscar-winning director Woody Allen, who has been ostracized from most of Hollywood over renewed allegations of sexual abuse by his daughter, Dylan Farrow, says he’s done with movies. Allen, 86, announced in a new interview Saturday that he plans to retire from making films after his next one, his 50th. “My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing,” he told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. Little is known about the upcoming movie, “Wasp 22,” but it is a French-language flick with a local cast, set to begin shooting in Paris later this year. Allen compared it to “Match...

The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms’ rules. Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, last week instructed the military commands that engage in psychological operations online to provide a full accounting of their activities by next month after the White House and some federal agencies expressed mounting concerns over the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of audiences overseas, according to several defense and administration officials familiar with the matter. The takedowns in recent years by Twitter and Facebook of more than 150 bogus personas and media sites created in the United States was disclosed last month by internet researchers Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory. While the researchers did not attribute the sham accounts to the U.S. military, two officials familiar with the matter said that U.S. Central Command is among those whose activities are facing scrutiny. Like others interviewed for this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations. The researchers did not specify when the takedowns occurred, but those familiar with the matter said they were within the past two or three years. Some were recent, they said, and involved posts from the summer that advanced anti-Russia narratives citing the Kremlin’s “imperialist” war in Ukraine and warning of the conflict’s direct impact on Central Asian countries. Significantly, they found that the pretend personas — employing tactics used by countries such as Russia and China — did not gain much traction, and that overt accounts actually attracted more followers. Centcom, headquartered in Tampa, has purview over military operations across 21 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia. A spokesman declined to comment. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement that the military’s information operations “support our national security priorities” and must be conducted in compliance with relevant laws and policies. “We are committed to enforcing those safeguards,” he said. Spokespersons for Facebook and Twitter declined to comment.