Month: September 2014

Monday, 01 September, 2014  -( 61˚F / 16˚C & Foggy in Ithaca @ 6:45 am ET )- Happy Labor Day – Or Labour Day, north of the border – 😉

{ & again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories, listen to sound clips, or see any video -if there is any video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———djo——— }

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{ I’ve been doing this because I believe that the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media here in the U.S.A., AND not a lot of people in the U.S. may know that or have access to anyone who might point them toward the CBC & their web site. }

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Lead Articles

-Go Public- Foreign worker ‘mess’ making oilsands site unsafe, Cdns say   { * “Go Public” is a kind of whistle blowers’ invitation to contact the CBC with their concerns. “Cdn” is a Canadian shorthand for ‘Canadian’.  —djo— }

Strike by teachers to keep B.C. schools closed on Tuesday   {  }

Ukraine forces ordered to pull back from  Luhansk airport  {  }

Protesters clash with Pakistan police, storm state tv   {   }

New sanctions will force Russia to ‘protect our economy’, Lavrov says   {  }

The back-to-school stat line for 7 million students, 440,000 educators   { * Most students head back to school this week. – “Schools in the Fairbanks/North Pole, Alaska area where my sister and nephews live have already been in session for a couple weeks” -Jim W-  }

New techniques helping curb advanced melanoma   { * Melanoma is a ‘preventable skin cancer’ which has had high death rates in the past, this article talks about new techniques that show promise in dealing with the advanced forms of the disease. *** For years now, I’ve been hearing that Big Pharmaceutical companies have been hiding the fact that many actual cures for many cancers have been found. Big Pharma is not interested in curing cancer. Big Pharma is interested in making tons of money selling drugs. If they can get tens of thousands of dollars a year for a drug that costs them half a penny a dose to manufacture, package and sell, they will do just that. If anybody finds an herb or treatment that works against cancers that Big Pharma is making mega bucks on without curing it, they will see to it that legions of lawyers will attack and press charges of ‘Practicing Medicine without a License’ toward anyone who threatens their unethical means of fleecing the pockets of those who are already in bad shape with the disease and the anxiety that goes with it. I’m not kidding when I tell you that, “Big Pharma Kills” —djo— }

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“Offbeat”

Vancouver’s “Dude Chilling Park” sign goes missing, again  { “The ‘Dude Chilling Park’ sign, which was a prank art installation that Vancouver’s Park Board eventually installed in Guelph Park in East Vancouver, went missing over the weekend.” & “Community took to rogue art installation and lobbied for a permanent place for fake park sign” —djo— }

-The above is the only new article under this category-

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“Most Viewed”

Joan Rivers: Family remains hopeful for star’s recovery   {  }

The Navigators plead for return of stolen instruments   { The Navigators are a Newfoundland band who discovered two guitars and a fiddle worth about $6,000 had been stolen from their van hours before they were supposed to play in Conception Bay South.  —djo— }

The week in Pictures  {  21 pictures in a click-to-change slide show are still up, and so is the “-Blog- Russia responds to Canada’s snarky ‘geography lesson’ tweet, sparking international flame war” featured headline.  —djo— }

{ & that’s it for ‘Most Viewed’ beyond what’s already been mentioned above this, or is repeated from Friday & the weekend.  —djo— }

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Other

New restrictive abortion law enforcement blocked in Louisiana   {  }

Ferguson police to wear body cameras in wake of Michael Brown’s shooting   {  * & Once again, thanks to Jassper -aka ‘Boofaji’ –  for finding and posting the tweet that I mentioned about Michael Brown not being the man on the security video who stole the cigars – unless he could change from sandals to running shoes and shave his head in five minutes. That Tweet was copied and pasted below on August 27th – if you want to scroll down and see it for yourself.  The Video is not here, just what was tweeted- and Jassper took a screen shot of the tweet, cropped it and posted it. ‘Good Job!”  —djo— }

Swedish hospital investigates possible Ebola case   {  }

Health Canada pulling last of citronella-based bug sprays   { Health Canada wants the citronella-based insect repellent off the shelves by December, while allowing the DEET based crap remain for sale? Health Canada said they’re doing this because of the ‘absence of scientific proof that citronella is safe’. The scientists who tested citronella for Health Canada and passed it –  say they’re ‘confused’ by this action. Health Canada, apparently, is in bed with Big Pharma. In the U.S.A. The FDA (food and drug administration) is also in bed with Big Pharma. These ‘watchdog’ agencies have been converted to attack dogs for Big Business interests. Go read the definition of ‘Fascism’ again- I dare you. As a matter of fact: Here are a handfull of definitions of Fascism for you:  *** Robert Paxton says that fascism is “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” – Fascism is considered by certain scholars to be right-wing because of its social conservatism and authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism. Roderick Stackelberg places fascism—including Nazism, which he says is “a radical variant of fascism”—on the right, explaining that “the more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be.” – Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s. A major element of fascism that has been deemed as clearly far right is its goal to promote the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.  The “Fascist right” included members of the paramilitary Squadristi and former members of the Italian Nationalist Association (ANI). The Squadristi wanted to establish Fascism as a complete dictatorship, while the former ANI members, including Alfredo Rocco, sought an authoritarian corporatist state to replace the liberal state in Italy, while retaining the existing elites.  —djo— }

Ukraine crisis: Why the U.S. avoids calling Russia’s actions an ‘invasion’   {  }

Sleep tips for kids heading back to class   { “Occupational therapist offers tips to reset kids’ sleep schedules” }

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“Local / “New Brunswick”

NDP’s Dominic Cardy proposes local governance overhaul   { “The NDP leader unveiled a series of municipal reforms on Friday that will see a major democratic shift within New Brunswick communities. – Various governments have spent decades ruminating over how to restructure the local governance system, particularly the patchwork of local service districts spread across the province. – Cardy said he understands this policy could be a contentious issue with some people in unincorporated communities but he believes bringing an elected mayor and council to these areas is important. – “If you vote for the new NDP on Sept. 22 you are voting for a platform of fully-elected local councils in New Brunswick,” he said. ” —djo— }

Brian Gallant struggles to articulate campaign message   {  & I find this headline to be extraordinarily slanted.  —djo— }

PTSD March reaches New Brunswick   { * “Three former soldiers are marching through New Brunswick as they enter the final few weeks of a cross-Canada journey aiming to raise awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. – Laden with military backpacks, Steve Hartwig and two fellow veterans left CFB Gagetown on Friday, hoping to make it to Saint John on Saturday. – Their journey began in British Columbia back in June. – “Everybody has some misunderstanding about PTSD,” said Hartwig. “When you come home a lot of people just don’t understand what you go thorough.” – The three men all served in Croatia in the 1990s and have been diagnosed with PTSD themselves. They’re marching because they want the public to better understand the disorder, a condition affecting thousands of Canadians inside and outside the armed forces.” *** And Veterans’ Advocates in the U.S.A. are very upset about the high rate of suicides here by vets with PTSD and other issues who can’t get enough treatment in a timely manner – and feel like they’ve been hung out to dry by an uncaring government. Looks like Canada has the same problem.  —djo— }

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{ 8:29 am on my day off? Not a lot of new news on the CBC site and you got to see me go off on an anti-fascist rant. Time to check for typos and highlight the headlines with colors  – 8:55 am = Clicking the “Publish” button   ———djo——— }