Sunday, 11 January, 2015  -( +30˚F / -1˚C & cloudy @ 5:15 pm near Ithaca )-  -( +18˚F / -8˚C   & cloudy  @ 6:15 pm Closer to Halifax —jim w—)-   —  { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— } { Some things change, some articles remain. Do you know where your survival kit is?  —djo— }  { Happy 200th Birthday, Sir John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada- & Happy much younger Birthday wishes to: Emily Skawinski, and Dalila Martinak-Catterill }

In the middle of a very visible crisis with returning Canadian Veterans  committing suicide, being denied pensions and facing incredible long waits for health care, the Harper government closed down 9 regional Veteran’s Administration offices and his hand picked, now fired, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs cheated their vets out of 1.1 Billion dollars and handed that money to Stephen Harper as a present? —djo—

{ New Stuff Every Day: We don’t change the images with the twitter stuff every day, but there will almost always be something new there, usually at the top of each section. The red headlines under ‘read this:’ & ‘Not this:’  Will be new. The top 4 headlines in blue “Offbeat” will usually be new. The top ten headlines in maroon/brown under “Most Viewed” are almost always all new, with CBC repeating or rewording something every now and then. Some of the green healines under “Other” are new, the ones at the top of the list are the most new. The top 4 purple headlines under “Local / New Brunswick” are New, except when some of those top 4 are repeated over the weekend or a holiday. And several of the top olive green headlines under “First Nations” are new on most days. — thanks,  —djo— }

{ +5,154 New tweets since 9 pm Thursday [-Sorry- Jim was sick and I was overwhelmed with ‘day job’ nonsense- ] – & It just might be National “Something or Other Day”, but nobody tells me these things –  —djo— }

{ Headlines missing from below: —> Harper’s trying to look like a hero by claiming he is giving families a big tax break. Nope, he’s giving millionaires’ families a big tax break. ‘Normal people’ are carrying the richest ice-holes’ weight. Why do white cops shoot young black men? *  Link  *  Interesting twist on New Brunswick’s moratorium on Fracking : At the top of the list of what would have to change before the new Premier of N.B. would allow fracking and pre-fracking ‘explorations’ would be “Social License” which, he explained, would mean that the citizens of New Brunswick would have to be in favor of that fracking. = “Hmmmm” –  * UBER software raised prices during Australian Hostage Crisis to $140-$200 dollars per ride. Then apologized and offered repayments.  — & Loads of people anonymously did nice things for people they never met & Media completely missed that. *  —djo— }

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This is from “Blacklock’s Reporter”  *  Link  * :

Feds Run News Blacklist, Ban Employee Access To Website

{ We’ve tried to move all the New stuff up top here. There may be important and interesting stuff below: Bears, Belugas and Cats may be more important than the corporate ‘bull chips’ in the news to many of our readers, but we tried to give the current newsy stuff priority.  }

 

===Read This:

Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “Tell me something Positive!”

When the world’s corporate media make such a big deal out of the Charlie Hebdo shooters being part of ISIS is sounds an awful lot like we’re being manipulated into accepting the next war.  ;

Re: Dalhousie and the misogystic facebook postings: (1) Yes, the Dentistry students were stupid to post that stuff. (2) University students should have some private place where they can be complete ‘ice-holes’ and vent their frustrations where nobody outside their little group would be offended. (3) Now we hear that professors at that University were upset and wanted to take action before the ‘fit hit the shan’ and were told that stupid sexist facebook postings were not eligible for consideration as violations under the Student Code of Conduct — (4) Nobody wins. & Will somebody please come up with a solution to keep this from happening again? ;

A Muslim employee in the Kosher supermarket where the extremists held hostages in relation to the Charlie Hebdo massacre hid several Jewish shoppers in the basement and then managed to sneak out and tell police what was happening. We Need More Positive News Like This. 1.57 Billion Honest, Peaceful Muslims in this world and 50,000 Muslim Extremists who have been radicalized and manipulated by dark ops groups like the C.I.A. etc, are giving those dark ops morons an excuse to make you hate and fear the whole religion? You’re being manipulated. We Are One People. God does not hate anybody. We’re here to love and help each other get through this kind of nonsense.   ;

& Harper’s under tight security? He should be locked up in Maximum Security for what he’s doing to Canada.  —djo—    ;

===Not This:

Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “—Nothing up my sleeve—“/ slight of hand?

Video shows Paris gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS leader  ;

Dalhousie professors’ Facebook scandal complaint tossed   ;

Muslim man hailed for courage during siege of Paris Jewish supermarket  ;

Harper under tight security at Sir John A. Macdonald 200th birthday event  ;

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Blasts from the recent past:

Politicians paying somebody to wipe out evidence of overspending? They do more than that, GOTO:   CAFR1.Com  ;

& – Wouldn’t it be nice if people started living by “Love they Neighbor as thyself”- ‘Could you believe it- no more war—‘   –

There’s a link directly above this section in the caption of a copied and pasted re-tweet defining a global economic flying ‘shitstorm’ – The ‘bad guys’ are plotting to manipulate an economic collapse in order to tighten their grip on everyone and take away what remaining freedoms you believe you still have. One encouraging forecast I heard: There are a lot more of ‘US’ than there are of ‘Them’ – ‘Them = Banksters’ and people will not take this. We might have a rough go for a while, but we will shut those Banksters down and change the way we view economic matters. Let’s hope that forecast was right and lets pray for all the help we need to get through this with ‘ease and grace’ [ —djo— ]  ;

The Keystone pipeline. Um, (1) Big oil companies have ‘buried’ patents for processes that could make competitive technologies viable. (2) Nicola Tesla knew about and was working on methods to distribute electricity free to everybody and the rich and powerful ruined him financially because he was a threat to their monopolies. (3) There’s a book that might be available somewhere, “The Energy Non-Crisis” by Lindsey Williams, a Baptist Pastor who was privileged to insider information and learned that oil keeps replentishing itself, Oil Companies have raised their prices based on lies and are still making record profits. Farmers in Texas discovered new oil on their property, thought they would be rich, signed deals with big oil companies had their wells dug and were told that the oil companies were not going to use their oil, no matter how good it was and they couldn’t tell the world about this because, according to the terms of their contracts, the big oil companies could sue them for everything they were worth if they did. Big Oil is dirty business. Oil-Sands / Tar-Sands is dirty business. Send them buggers to the poor house, or banish them to a parallel dimension where their kind of policies have ruined whole planets and let them starve and freeze with what they’ve done staring them in their faces.  ;

Re: Bill Cosby. We will not add to his ‘Trial by Media’ here. He performed in Ontario. He has not been charged by police. Perhaps allogations like those leveled against him should not be made public. I am a firm believer in “Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged” and Everyone should be ‘Presumed Innocent’ until God tells me they’re guilty. And I don’t think God will break silence for something like that.   ;

On a day when the lead article should be the very unpopular Minister of Veterans Affairs being fired and replaced by a hand picked party line enforcer, The lead ‘story’ here was the Junior World Hockey championship? Jeeze! –  ;

Housing costs everywhere in the world are controlled by greedy ice-holes. Until we fix that problem by removing those greedy ice-holes from the equation, be prepared to be hammered in the brain by silly propaganda designed to keep you off balance and in a state of anxiety about everything in your environment. Pray for Angelic Intervention. Bring Heaven to Earth. “Help! – Amen”  ;

All kids need a place to play where they can act out their dreams and even mimic the grown up ice-holes they see every day. I’ll include University aged men and women in this. There should be someplace where almost-grown-up kids can be complete ice-holes for a laugh, as long as they don’t hurt anybody. Maybe universities need in-house computer bulletin boards where students can post all kinds of inflamatory b.s. and nobody outside their little group will ever see it. Faculty could probably use something like that, too. A Private Venting Board where you can call your dean a complete freakin’ waste of good dna and get away with it. We never would have heard about Lieutenant Dish if rabid political correctness was in force when M.A.S.H. first entered our collective, -clear throat- uh- ‘consciousness’ (?) –  ;

The problem with big oil began with the fact that they’ve been lying to all of us all along. Oil is created by some natural process inside the earth and on distant planets and moons that never had dinosaurs. It is not ‘fossil fuel’. It constantly replentishes itself. There never was or will be an oil shortage. Prices you pay are inflated by lies. What we need here is cheap renewable energy, which the sun and planet provide for free. Put them lying cheating manipulating Oil Barons in the poor house. Or better yet, put them in Jail – ;

Trial by mass media does not make anyone guilty. There is due process. Celebrities should not be put on trial in the corporate media before they have been found guilty in a court of law. And think about this: How many people who have been convicted of really heinous crimes have been exonerated by dna evidence in the last few years. Our ‘Justice’ systems are imperfect and subject to corruption and mistakes made by honest people. You better hope you never have to bet your life on your country’s ‘Justice’ system.    ;

Oilsands, Tarsands. The technology is out there to provide everybody on this planet with free energy. WE can and should make sure that everybody on this planet has a safe shelter and enough to eat. We can do that. We should have been doing that all along. There is no such thing as ‘Fossil Fuel’. But YES! Canada should leave its oilsands in the ground, where it belongs.    ;

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Updat

“Offbeat”

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Pants Subway Ride 2015  { * Not just offbeat- this looks ridiculous. But it may be fun for some exhibitionists who like to show off their underwear. * shrug *  —djo—  }

Grad student seeks crowdfunding to finish thesis  { * Can we seek crowdfunding to get rid of evil governments? *  —djo—  }

Indiana couple charged after video shows tot putting gun in mouth  {   }

South Korean ice fishing enthusiasts brave winter cold  {   }

 

===Recently: >>—>

‘It didn’t even fight us’: Snowmobilers erscue moose buried in avalanche  { * Animals are a lot smarter than most humans realize. *  —djo—  }

6 wild animals in unexpected places … and one very short cat   {  *  Link  *  }

Waterloo photographer captures movement in mesmerizing LED snaps  {   }

Goats, elk happy to munch on your used Christmas trees {   }

Couple forced to relocate wedding for Obama’s golf game   {   }

Son pays off parents’ mortgage for Christmas   { * & The money used to ‘bail out’ the ‘Too big to fail’ Banksters could have paid off everybody’s Mortgages several years ago. The human race survived on this planet for seven and a half million years without banks trying to control us. “Banking Establishments are more dangerous than standing armies!” -Thomas Jefferson.  Burn down the banks. Tar and feather anybody who voted for that bail-out. *  —djo—  }

Labrador hoisted to safety after falling 46 metres off cliff   { The dog got spooked but survived, with ‘minor injuries but walked out to the trailhead’ after a climber rappelled to a narrow ledge with a rescue harness and both dog and climber were hoisted to safety by an 8-person crew from the Oregon Humane Society.  This shouldn’t be ‘Offbeat’- This should be the kind of good news we need a lot more of.  🙂  —djo—  }

Husky missing for more than 6 months reunited with owner  {  🙂  }

Pen pals from P.E.I. and Tennessee meet after 40 years  {  }

Deer on ice rescued by B.C. conservation officers  {  }

Polar bears’ stinky feet may help attract mates: study  {  }

‘He’s just barking in your face’: Would-be police dog fired for poor performance   {  }

Man’s toilet explodes while city crew cleans sewers   {   }

Students develop app that rewards you for ignoring your phone in social situations   {   }

Swedish town seeks to prevent torching of giant Christmas straw goat   { * It’s a tradition in the town of Gävle, every Christmas they build a 13 meter tall straw goat and about 50% of the time vandals burn it down.  * Link to WebCam * At least in my browser, there was a ‘click here to translate this page’ thing visible for a couple seconds.  Jim W has some distant relatives somewhere in Sweden –  —djo—  }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Canada regularly sending spies up to the North  {   }

Paris attacks: Muslim store worker Lassana Bathily hailed as hero  {   }

Paris gunman Amedy Coulilbaly pledges allegiance to ISIS in video  { * But, be careful & be slow to decide what you believe here: C.I.A. agents have the ability to make anybody appear to say anything in a video. *  —djo—  }

56 dead in Mozambique after drinking beer poisoned with bile  {  }

Dalhousie professors’ Facebook scandal complaint tossed  {  }

Prime Minister Stephen Harper under tight security at Sir John A. Macdonald birthday event  {  }

Changing tastes: Legros and Motti moving on  {   }

Brent Gartner, 51, victim of first Toronto homicide in 2015  {   }

Paris attacks: Millions march with world leaders to honour 17 victims   {   }

Apprenticeship ad’s claim of skilled trades shortfall open to question   { * And the current sitting government of Canada has been accused of lying in these ads as well as using taxpayer dollars to fund the ads which are thinly veiled campaign ‘bull chips’ to try to keep themselves in power while they fleece the country- Steal 1.1 Billion dollars from Veterans’ health care and give it back to a government fund to try to brag about saving money while denying health care to Vets, discharging Vets months before they would be elligible for their pensions, closing down 9 regional offices where veterans used to be able to get help with their health claims- and then spending hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on lying television ads about the economy?  Gag me with a spoon? *  —djo—  }

-13 photo slide show- Charlie Hebdo attack: Police end 2 hostage-takings   {  }

-Blog- 90’s kids rejoice as Internet Archive releases 2,300 MS-DOS games for free  {  }

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Other:

AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Flight recorder pings detected, official says  {   }

-In Depth- Haiti quake’s effects still felt by Canadians on aniversary of disaster   {   }

Government ad’s claim of skilled trades shortage muddies labour market data   {   }

Searchers home in on AirAsia jet’s black boxes after pings detected   {   }

Beer poisoned with crocodile bile kills 56 in Mozambique   {   }

Attempt to abduct a baby, threaten another ends in B.C. arrest   {   }

-Profile- How Canadian doctor Vera Peters revolutionized cancer treatments   { * But the big pharmaceutical companies have successfully kept actual cancer curing substances off the market through their big bucks lobbying and their controlled politicians. Clinics that actually had a 66% cure rate were demonized and forced out of business by the FDA, which has become an enforement arm of the big pharmaceutical companies’ will to make money whether it kills you or not. *  —djo—  }

Tamir Rice didn’t receive medical attention from police, video reveals   {   }

The price of divorce? A whopping $975 M for U.S. oil magnate   { * How much have ‘oil magnates’ fleeced from honest consumers by dishonesty, subtrafuge, bribing politicians, and other illegal, immoral, unethical, and dangerous practices? *  —djo—  }

-Updated- Couple with 2 young kids says ‘family noise fee’ may force move from townhouse   { * A family friend with an Austism Spectrum Disorder kid had neighbors calling police when the kid was screaming in the middle of the night. They lived in fear that something like this might happen to them. This was a medical problem. They fought against Canadian red tape and biased professionals to get their kid diagnosed. After that, behavioral problems that could have gotten their kid suspended, expelled or even arrested while in grammar school were covered. There should be some kind of way that people with children with medical / behavioral challenges shuld be able to find an acceptable living situation where random outbursts of noise and other ‘strange’ behavior won’t force them to pay insane fines or even move into a possibly dangerous housing situation. *  —djo— }

‘People are saying that should be shot’: Coyote hunt organizer threatened   { * I can understand both sides of this controversy. Maybe we need multi-dimensionals to help us move the Coyotes to alternate dimensions where they can be happy while protecting pets and citizens of a dimension that doesn’t want Coyotes in its neighborhoods.  }

Economist says Alberta should ‘start taxing carbon’, depend less on oilsands   {   }

-Photos- CES 2015: 10 new gadgets from Consumer Electronics Show   {   }

Should older actresses act their age? Meryl Streep defends Russell Crowe  { * Should the Fashion Police be encouraged to dictate what anybody can wear in public? Should any group be empowered to dictate the behavior of everybody anywhere? Should we surrender Free Speech and Expression and become good little robots and confrom to standards that some idiot with an inflated ego believes are ‘proper’?  }

RCMP officer goaded to see ‘how far he would go’ with female prisoner   {   }

Who is looking at your computer when you’re on hotel Wi-Fi?    {  }

Cartoonists, economist and police officers among 12 dead in Paris attack   {   }

-Go Public- Passenger refused flight over missing letter on airline ticket   { * Her name was spelled wrong, Belarus native Valiantsina Murashka’s name was printed on her airline ticket missing one ‘n’. So the airline wouldn’t let her fly home. I remember loads of early computer read-outs that truncated my name. ‘Otterso-Dougla’ comes to mind. Good thing I don’t want to fly anywhere, ya think? *  —djo—  }

Canada to resettle 10,000 more Syrian refugees over 3 years   {   }

BlackBerry unveils Internet of Things platform at CES   {   }

Toronto illustrator tweets images of missing, murdered indigenous women to PM   {   }

First Air still the world’s only disappearance-proof airline   { * – Technology that could have solved the mystery of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is currently used by only one airline in the world: First Air, which flies in the Canadian Arctic. – The system, made by Calgary tech company FLYHT Aerospace Solutions, has been around for about five years. – *  —djo—   }

Discovery of Earth-like planets ‘first step’ in search for extraterrestrial life   { * What if you learned that extraterrestrial life is all around us, every day, on this planet? *  —djo—  }

‘Crazy Indians Brotherhood’ dole kindness to Winnipeg’s homeless   { * But they clawed back $1.1 Billion that should have gone to Veterans’ Health Care while systematically denying that health care to veterans in real need? This stuff has to stop *  —djo—  }

Why it’s impossible to storm-proof the power grid   { * uh, would that be because the over-charging power companies don’t want to spend any part of their ‘profits’ to upgrade or use technology that Nicola Tesla developped almost a hundred years ago that could make power distribution free to everyone on this planet? *  —djo—  }

Triathlon competitor saves couple from drowning in Cancun   {   }

Cannabinoid e-cigarettes to be available in more countries in 2015   {   }

Pope Francis picks 15 new cardinals to reflect diversity   {   }

9 high-tech gadgets turning heads at CES International   {   }

-Analysis- Welcome to election year, date to be determined: Chris Hall   {   }

-Go Public- Ontario man fears fro credit rating after Hertz charges wrong car rental amount   { * The man was over-charged $159.24, disputed the bill, after not hearing anything for quite a while he got a letter that said his dispute was not valid. I can’t tell from the article whether a major part of this issue stemmed from the merchant who overcharged him for an extra 3 days, after he had turned the car in on time, failed to respond to the head office of Hertz or what. *  —djo—  }

CES 2015: 4K TVs, connected home tech- and the last gasp for smartwatches?   { * But- are these devices spying on you? *  —djo—  }

Bad luck plays the biggest role in getting most cancers, researchers suggest   { * Find out who paid those researchers. Other studies have found hormone-based herbicides and pesticides cause a lot of cancers. *  —djo—  }

Canada’s richest 100 CEO salaries have increased by 25% since 2008   { * That’s a crime. *  —djo—  }

 

 

===  And:  Daily Stuff ===

-Must Watch- CBC’s Nahlah Ayed at the unity rally in Paris  {   }

-Must Watch- Dramatic bus crash footage  {   }

-Must Watch- Crowds gather at Charlie Hebdo memorial  {   }

-Editor’s Pick- [Haitian Earthquake] Disaster’s effects still felt by Canadians 5 years later  {   }

-Editor’s Pick- The bloodied craft of political cartooning  {  }

-Editor’s Pick- Rebuilding Haiti, 5 years later  {   }

 

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-Photos- 10 unusual homes around the world   { *  Link  *  }

-Analysis- Neil Macdonald: Can America handle the truth about Saudi Arabia?   { * Me: Can America handle the truth about itself? Can America handle the truth about September 11, 2001 or anything the C.I.A. has been involved in since its inception? How about the NSA? How about the ‘dark ops’ projects paid for by taxpayer dollars, how about the lies that taxes are the only income the U.S. Government has to work with? How about a dozen other examples of ‘the putrid underbelly of the american society’? *  —djo—  }

 

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“Local / New Brunswick”

 

 

 

 

 

Woman dead after vehicle crashes into Saint-Jacques river  {   }

Toboggan or to toboggan, that is the question  {   }

UNB’s frat and sororities feel discriminated against after facility ban  {   }

Devon Middle School gets green light to reopen  { * After mold and asbestos were detected in the ventilation system and the school was closed down for I think more than a week. *  —djo—  }

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New Brunswick hit with more power outages    {   }

FHS dress code protest penalties too harsh, parents say  { * Too many things about public education are too harsh on the students and families, I say.  —djo—  }

New Brunswickers losing faith in electrical grid  {   }

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• Fredericton startup develops anti-fraud internet ad technology video

Shale gas poll finds New Brunswickers divided on issue  { * How did they phrase the questions on that poll? “Would you sell your children’s and grandchildren’s future out so a couple ice-hole politicians can strike it rich?” <— That’s the real question. There is no such thing as ‘Safe Fracking’. They do not have the technology to ensure that their band-aid ‘fixes’ can keep poisons and flammable gasses from leaking into your drinking water when their patches rust,  crack or otherwise fail in a couple years. This is not a joke, this is life and death. *  —djo—  }

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“First Nations”

-Opinion- Idle No More: Where is the movement 2 years later?  {  }

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>——> Most Recent Articles Below this line <——<< 

-Opinion- Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthday celebration cause for reflection, not celebration for First Nations  { * Re: Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy:  “It’s a legacy that includes policies ‘of starvation and coercion.’-”  *  —djo—  }

Unreserved: Celebrations of life, legacies and sport  {  }

-Opinion- Feds need to be schooled on First Nations education  {  }

Is this ‘Redskin’ licence plate offensive?  {  }

Aboriginal education, employment high priorities, Sask. politicians say  {  }

Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak sues teacher over racist facebook posts  {  }

Aboriginal leaders demand independent probe after Mountie took jailed woman home  {  }

Residential school survivor’s death shakes Winnipeg indigenous community  {  }

-Photos- Inuvik Sunrise Festival celebrates the return of the sun  {  }

Yukon First nations look at aboriginal sentencing reports  {  }

Rejoice or reproach: Winnipeggers react to Sir John A. Macdonald’s 200th birthday  {  }

Regina Cree dancer brings powerful dream to reality  {  }

Do police have a problem with aboriginal people?  {  }

N.W.T. caribou: Whati chief awaits meeting with government  {  }

Mountie takes woman home from jail to ‘pursue a personal relationship’  {  }

Winnipeg Art Gallery seeks Nunavut input on Inuit Art Centre  {  }

-Opinion- Improving indigenous health starts with reconciliation: Anna Banerji   {  }

Leona Aglukkaq to run in upcoming election  {  }

Evan Munday tweets images of missing, murdered women to Stephen Harper   {  }

‘Crazy Indians Brotherhood’ dole kindness to Winnipeg;s homeless  {  }

Snowy owl a ‘peaceful’ messenger for First Nations woman   {  }

Elections Canada budgets $1M for aboriginal ID issue in federal vote   {  }

First Nation community mourns 3 deaths suspected to be caused by flu   {  }

First Air the only airline in the world with black box data streaming   {  }

Nutrition North: 5 of 6 advisory board members donated to federal Tories   {  }

B.C. implements new vulnerable witness policy years after Rober Picton inquiry   {  }

James Clifford Paul makes first, brief court appearance   {  }

Vancouver’s Skwachàys Lodge billed as first aborigninal arts hotel in Canada   {  }

-Video- Wynne, Harper discuss Ring of Fire, First Nations’ drinking water   {  }

Chilliwack gives OK to hazardous waste recycling facility   {  }

Keystone bill would be vetoed by Obama, White House says   {  }

Mistreatment claim leads to investigation of Regina polic  {  }

Family of accused in Paul Band attack forced to move away  {  }

Stranded family in northern Quebec rescued by Hydro workers  {  }

CKLB has received $463K in funding since August shutdown  { * The First Nation’s radio station went off the air because their funding was late. *  —djo— }

Peel watershed: Gwich’in Tribal Council unhappy with appeal  {  }

Aboriginal representation on 2015 jury rolls to be challenged  {  }

$3K residential school education credit deadline to be extended  {  }

Unreserved: From Thomas King to Thomson Highway  {  }

Harry Okpik, champion dog musher, races 600 km across tundra  {  }

20 cases delayed by Ontario’s jury roll problem  {  }

-Video- Aboriginal hotel opens in Vancouver   {  }

-Opinion- Why does the Canadian justice system treat aboriginal people as if they’re all the same?  {  }

CBC Aboriginal’s top 10 indigenous music picks for 2014  {  }

CBC Aboriginal’s top 10 indigenous music picks for 2014  {  }

Lydia-Molly Tayara, Inuk woman, says cancer went untreated  {  }

Caroline Marshall-Hobbs, Mi’kmaq rights-advocate remembered  {  }

Ontario gives green light to clearcutting at Grassy Narrows   { * Remember this. *  —djo— }

Deninu Kue First Nation gets rights to diamond benefits  {  }

Loretta Saunders murder trial set for New Year  {  }

Reporter notebook: CBC’s Jillian Taylor reflections on Tina Fontaine  {  }

Reporter’s Notebook: Waubgeshig Rice on the Omushkegowuk Walkers  {  }

Reporter’s Notebook: Angela Sterritt on the oilsands paradox  { * “Reporting on a tiny community downstream from Alberta’s Athabasca oilsands was one of the hardest stories I have worked on in my life”.  *  —djo— }

– 6 photo slide show – Unreserved: A literary special  {  }

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{ “Fude 4 Thought”  :  }

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I don’t know how this caption survived, but it did. I guess maybe I should keep it here: * Wealth Is Delusion * If you believe that anyone can ‘own’ the Earth, its resources or ‘wealth’ You’ve bought their ‘bull chips’ and you’ve already lost. You can’t play by their rules. They cheat. —djo—

{ “Why the worlds’s big energy firms are running scared from renewables”  >>—>  *  Link  *  }

 

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*  Link  * <—<< Link to John Trudell’s amazing speech from ‘Thanksgiving’ 2013 via First Voices Indigenous Radio

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{ This is from the ‘Tweet-Us-Sphere’ : }

{ “Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of the Harper government: Newspaper Article from the Toronto Star:  *  Link  * }

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 *  Walter Burien’s Web site explains how governments all over the ‘free world’ are stealing from their citizens and ‘cooking their books’ :  * link to CAFR1.com *

Links >>—-> The definitive ranking of ridiculous and misleading Conservative names for bills put before Canadian Parliament:

Note: ‘Http.com’ Hijacked the original links we put here for these two links.

Let Us Know if any other links have been effed with, thank you

>>——> J.Z.N McCauley’s NaNo Novel <——<<

{ -jda-‘s NaBloPoMo entry disappeared from the list. & Jim’s NaNoWriMo Novel has gone over 90,000 words as of November 19th. }

{ Don’t know how many new tweets since late last night. We crashed.  Medium but poignant Traffic? in the ‘Tweet-us-sphere’  —djo— }

Recent earthquakes in Alberta linked to fracking: study  {  }

{  * Attention OathKeepers: When “Serve and Protect” becomes strict “Law Enforcement” with the civilian population seen as the enemy, Police become Terrorists.  *  Link to article in the Toronto Star  *  —djo— }

=====   Steppenwolf’s “Monster” with interesting video clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EVE8leTG8Y  God Bless Oathkeepers =====

*  Link  * <—<< Link to John Trudell’s amazing speech from ‘Thanksgiving’ 2013 via First Voices Indigenous Radio

{  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtzIKCqaZMQ *  <——<< * Link *  Moody Blues @ Home in 1995? from “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” I like many of the interesting details of Justin Hayward’s ‘Carriage House’ Home.  —jim w— }

 

{  “America- Where are ya now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters? Don’t ya know We need you now, We can’t fight alone against this monster-” -John Kay of Steppenwolf- & the Monster is the one who convinces the police that they need to arrest a harmless 90 year old man for feeding the homeless in Florida and scares honest police officers to the point where they’re killing unarmed/ harmless men and women. These Police Officers are Not the Enemy. Look Behind the Curtain. —djo— }

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{   “Anyone who would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” —Benjamin Franklin   }

{ “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies” —Thomas Jefferson }

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{ From a tweet:  Huffington Post: “A Tribe Called Red’s Thanksgiving Track is Tougher to Swallow Than Turkey And Stuffing (Video)”  *  Link  *  —djo— }

===== From the “International Business Times”  — “Anonymous Hackers Threaten Canadian Police, Alleging ‘Swatting’ Suspect Was Framed”  —  *  Link  *  { * Consider the source *  —djo— } =====

{ From @democracynow “We can reduce the prison population by 50% in the next 6-7 years if we just demand greater justice”   *  Link  *   the link might be more interesting than the above quote.   —djo— }

Most recently, Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced “Let’s Encrypt,” their collaboration with Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan in attempt to take the first big step towards a more universally secure Internet. One of the biggest weaknesses in the underlying architecture of the web as it exists currently is the highly bureaucratic and complex (not to mention costly) system required for websites to obtain and deploy the SSL/TSL certificates needed to protect your web surfing experience (these are the basic pieces of information that allow the little lock icon to work in your browser, signaling your session is private and secure). “Let’s Encrypt” will extend these digital certificates to all websites by starting an easy-to-use and free-of-charge certificate authority that issues them; this means that web encryption will not just be available to big players like banking services or email providers, but will set a much higher bar for Internet security across all websites, regardless of their ability to pay for a certificate or properly install it.

We are strong, adamant supporters of this initiative and are excitedly awaiting it’s unveiling in 2015 under a new nonprofit called the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

In addition to this, Mozilla announced it’s own strategic privacy initiative in collaboration the Tor Project and CDT. We’ll be consulting “on privacy technology, open standards, and future product collaborations” with the open-source browser to help it more effectively and appropriately bring privacy features into its products. “We want to accelerate pragmatic and user-focused advances in privacy technology for the Web, giving users more control, awareness and protection in their Web experiences,” the company explained via its privacy blog. – We believe in the possibilities that privacy innovations could make possible, and are excited and honored to be a part of the process. – What do these changes mean for the short- and long- term future of the security of the Internet? – There will soon be no excuses for not baking encryption into web services, and in turn, consumer privacy and protection into the tools we use to navigate the digital highway.

 

• Servers in Canada linked to FinFisher spyware program
• NSA uses smartphone apps to track people, Snowden docs suggest

– “Our ultimate aim is for human rights defenders, journalists and civil society groups to be able to carry out their legitimate work without fear of surveillance, harassment, intimidation, arrest or torture,” Amnesty International said in an online posting introducing Detekt. – Whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed the extent of government surveillance on activists and citizens. Amnesty said it is concerned about a chill on human rights activists and journalists, especially those in repressive countries, because of such surveillance.

• ANALYSIS: Edward Snowden did us all a favour, it’s time to curb the snooping
• 15 tips for protecting your privacy online

resistsurveillance.org

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Microsoft fixes 19-year old Windows bug  { * – Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years. – The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.

• Read the Microsoft security bulletin on the vulnerability

– IBM Corp’s cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a “significant vulnerability” in the operating system. – “The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years,” IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday. – *

*** The bugs were not “undiscovered”, Government Hackers spoke about this on Coast to Coast A.M. before the summer of 2002. Art Bell was the host. This program is not listed in the current Coast to Coast A.M. archives, at least I could not find it by searching ‘hackers’. 3 men who were quite ‘enthusiastic’ and talkative about their experience working for hackers for US Government agencies that ‘officially do not exist’ -one of them told us he has an ashtray with one of those officially non-existent agency’s official logo on it- told us that microsoft was fully aware of holes in their operating system but were not going to do anything about it because the government of the US liked it the way it was. They said it was simple for any hacker to get into your computer if you were ‘running windows’ -“Especially if you have printer sharing turned on.” && They also said they liked Apple Computers back then because it was possible to tell a Mac to do only one thing at a time, not like windows computers which could have all sorts of nonsense going on undetected in the background.  – AND Another Coast to Coast A.M. guest, much more recently, related talking to a computer pioneer a long time ago, when dial ups were the latest thing, and when the computer guy finished showing him something, he would not leave the room without shutting off his computer, and disconnecting the phone line from his computer. When the C2C guest asked the computer guy what that was all about, the computer guy said that he, as in insider, knew that the US Government could already get into anyone’s computer that was connected to Delphi or GEnie or AOL, even if the computer had been turned off. — And, now that almost every computer in the world has WiFi capabilities- you can never fully disconnect yourself from the possibility that they can turn your computer on and gather any information you have, or were ever connected to- any time they want to do that- With the possible exception that you might be ‘safe’ if you live inside a Faraday cage, a hundred feet or more beneath the surface of this planet. Welcome to the future, it sucks.  —jim w—   }

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-Archived?:-

Quebec woman gets jail time after stopping for ducklings led to 2 deaths   { * Morton Thiokol executives never even got their wrists slapped for ignoring warnings from engineers. This led to the spectacular explosion that killed everyone aboard a high profile NASA Shuttle launch. I say maybe they could justify locking up someone who tried to save any life after they’ve locked up everybody who willfully let many more people die in the name of corporate profits. *  —djo—  } Emma Czrnobaj gets 90 days in jail for [trying to save ducks on a highway and causing a fatal accident in the process] {  }

Poor posture from technology use can lead to 4 damaging effects   { * But the Canadian Chiropractic Society has a free app to inspire you to improve your posture and improve your health *  Link  *  —djo— }

Immigration law that split young family frevents child trafficking, government says   { * (1) do not believe anything your government tells you. (2) you gotta be out of your mind to believe that anything your government does is in your best interest. *  —djo—  }

Tory anti-pot ad mocked and condemned by YouTube viewers  {  * Link *  }

Veterans face too many barriers to mental-health help, auditor general says  {   }

‘Consumers deserve the truth’: Water-heater firm fined $7M for unfair sales tactics  {   }

Conservative trap to ensnare Liberal candidate ends up embarassing Tories  {   }

– ‘What else are they doing wrong?’ artists wonder of Revenue Canada  { * The short answer? believing the propagandist liars who tell them that the government needs tax money to offer any kind of services to the people it wants to keep down under their thumbs – They have income streams they reallllly don’t want you to know about.  Demand the truth now!  *  Link to CAFR1 dot com  *  —djo—  }

-Analysis- Question authority? Not if you are black in America: Neil Macdonald  {   }

Coke plans to start making fancy milk — for twice the price  { * If it’s genetically modified, it’s poison. *  —djo—  }

Law can protect social media users who blindly consent to terms of service  { * It CAN – but will it? *  —djo—  }

Adults, kids cross police line at Kinder Morgan protests  { * One tweet today: “The RCMP just arrested two eleven year olds at Burnaby Mountain, I feel safer already.” *  —djo— }

-Special Report- Would you know what to do if someone told you they were raped?   { *  Link  * } }

-Analysis- Gobal corruption a bigger scourge than terrorism: Brian Stewart  { *  Link to the CBC article.  * *** And The whole idea behind our ‘modern’ system of ‘banking’ is probably the most corrupt ‘system’ in this world. ***  —djo—  }

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{ My friends in the U.S. tell me I’m lucky to be in Canada. They are usually correct.  —jim w— }

{ 8:45 pm EST — We are Ready to Rock and Roll —   & Thanks again for your help, Jim W, and  “—jda—“     ———djo——— }