Friday, 31 October, 2014 –

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Friday, 31 October, 2014  -( 49˚F / 9˚C –  Grey & cloudy  @ 3:15 pm near Ithaca )-  -( 46˚F / 8˚C –  The weather applet says ‘scattered clouds’ but the sky is solid grey here  @ 4:15 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-  -( & Snow is still in the forecast for Sunday —jim w— }  { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

— Other Media: —

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

Montreal Anit Austerity Demonstrations

Loads of Montrealers came out to demonstrate against Austerity measures. Great costumes- Budgets ministers with chain saws – covered in blood. Above is one of the least gruesome.

Bloody Puppets

This one is titled “PLQ puppets at the anti-austerity demo”.  The puppet with the chainsaw is supposed to be Premier Couillard. & @davidrankin says, “Premier Couillard himself is here with the very chainsaw with which he slashes our public services. #31octobre. “

{ Tweets from Montreal include “19 cops protecting elite private club. Tells you pretty much everything you need to know about society.”   & >>—–>  }

quote

“Conspiracy Watch” was busy yesterday. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-

{ –Renewable energy may currently make up only a small percentage of U.S. energy generation capacity, but it’s one of the fastest growing sectors. – Renewable energy generation—primarily wind and solar power—provided more than 40 percent of the new energy capacity in the U.S. in the first three quarters of this year, according to the latest U.S. Federation Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update. Oil, nuclear and especially coal provided little new capacity, with renewables outstripping them more than 35 times. Only natural gas, driven by the growth of fracking, showed more growth, and many industry observers think its growth potential is finite. – The new installed capacity of natural gas declined compared to the first three quarters of 2013, from 6,643 megawatt (MW) to 5,153. Wind was the big winner, upping its installed capacity from 965 MW to 1,614 in that period. In September, new wind capacity led the way with 367 MW, followed by natural gas with 114. Coal showed no increase in existing capacity so far this year. Overall, new capacity from all forms of energy declined from 11,452 in the first three quarters of last year to 8,860 this year. – Among FERC’s project updates is that Kern County, California’s Techachapi Wind Energy Storage project is now up and running. The South California Edison Project, FERC says, “consists of an 8 MW-four-hour (32 MWh) lithium-ion battery and a smart inverter system, [and] will help store energy from the existing 5,000 wind turbines and any future additions in the Techachapi Wind Resource Area. Housed inside a 6,300 square foot facility, it is the largest battery energy storage in North America.” Such projects bode well for the continued growth of wind power. – Natural gas still leads overall energy generation capacity in the U.S. by a long shot. It currently provides more than 42 percent of the total. But fracked natural gas and oil production is expected to fall off sharply, as extraction companies hit the most productive “sweet spots” first and then move on to areas with less accessible oil and gas that’s more expensive to reach. – Despite its precipitous decline, coal hangs onto the second place spot for now, generating more than 28 percent of U.S. installed capacity. Nuclear comes in next with 9.3 percent, followed by water at 8.4 percent and wind at 5.3 percent. All other forms of energy generation capacity are far behind. Solar currently provides less than one percent. But PV Magazine, which serves the photovoltaic industry, points out that FERC’s figures only include utility-scale solar, leaving out residential and business installations, which it says are among the fastest growing sources of renewable energy. – “The steady and rapid growth of renewable energy is unlikely to abate as prices continue to drop and the technologies continue to improve,” said Ken Bossong, executive director of  the nonprofit research group the SUN DAY Campaign. “The era of coal, oil and nuclear is drawing to a close; the age of renewable energy is now upon us.” –  —djo— }

 

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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Comcast Horror Stories

Comcast Horror Stories

{  Um, most of the people I know would have told you to ignore Comcast if they were trying to double bill you. Don’t cave in to ice holes – when you do, they win, when they win they come down harder on their next victim. You aided and abetted their extortion operations.  —djo— }

War Is Terrorism

War Is Terrorism

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Banksters

Banksters?

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

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

{ “On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

2nd verse of  “Defence of Fort M’Henry” By Francis Scott Key }

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

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{ & Below this begins our usual CBC News Headlines }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: Life’s little surprises explode on the launchpad?

Ka-Boom

“The company behind the dramatic launch explosion of a space station supply mission promises to find the cause of the failure and is warning residents to avoid any potentially hazardous wreckage.” -djo-  Thursday: Will this set back the commercialization of space?

-Updated- Justin Bourque gets 75 years with no chance of parole for Mountie murders  { * “Justin Bourque has been sentenced to 75 years in prison with no chance of parole for killing three RCMP officers and wounding two others, a New Brunswick judge has ruled.” *  —djo—  }

-Updated- 1 dead after Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes   { * “One person is dead and one is injured after Virgin Galactic’s suborbital passenger spaceship crashed during a test flight on Friday in California.” *  —djo— }

-Breaking- Canada won’t issue travel visas to residents of Ebola outbreak countries   { * “Canada is following in Australia’s footsteps and is suspending visa applications for residents and nationals of the West African countries battling Ebola.” *  —djo— }

-Updated- Future of Trinity Western law school in doubt after law society ratifies rejection   { *  “The president of Trinity Western University says he is uncertain if the new law school will open as scheduled in 2016 following a vote by the B.C. Law Society to reject the faith-based institution.” –  *  —djo— }

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eeep

“Radio-Canada meteorologist Bill Bourque says up to 30 cm of snow may hit New Brunswick this coming Sunday.” —jimw–

Friday: 31 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:

MP Dean Del Mastro guilty of campaign overspending in 2008   {  }

Canada’s CF-18s complete 1st operational flights over Iraq    {  }

Canadian Milos Raonic notches 1st career win over Federer    {  }

Mountie killer Justin Bourque gets life; can seek parole in 2089    {  }

Public visitation today for soldier slain near Montreal   {  }

Cda suspends visa bids from residents of Ebola-hit nations   {  }

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kids with' smart phones'

University Of Pennsylvania’s course is entitled “Wasting Time On The Internet”

“Offbeat”

Dentist offers to by back Halloween candy, but will kids bite   {   }

Esprit de corpse? Canadian puts French village through Halloween bootcamp   {   }

Vine star Jerome Jarre detained at airport after making speedo video mid-flight   {   }

Record breaking unicyclist wheels into B.C.   {   }

-Yeserday- Ivy League school offers ‘wasting time on the internet’ course   { * I kept this one up, even if the CBC didn’t.  —djo—  “UPenn is certainly generating a lot of buzz this week with its new English department course “Wasting time on the Internet,” but it’s not the title of the class that has academics excited — it’s the content of the syllabus, and the views of its professor (world-renowned poetKenneth Goldsmith.) – “We spend our lives in front of screens, mostly wasting time: checking social media, watching cat videos, chatting, and shopping,” wrote Goldsmith in the course’s syllabus, which is live on UPenn’s website. “What if these activities — clicking, SMSing, status-updating, and random surfing — were used as raw material for creating compelling and emotional works of literature?” –  “Could we reconstruct our autobiography using only Facebook? Could we write a great novella by plundering our Twitter feed? Could we reframe the internet as the greatest poem ever written?” the syllabus continues. “Distraction, multi-tasking, and aimless drifting is mandatory.” * & maybe they shouldn’t forget to eat GMO food and drink GMO soft drinks and reak havoc on their brains w sugar. && make sur haf th wrds r sp3lld rong.  —djo— }

 

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wreckage

SpaceShip Wreckage in the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

“Most Viewed”

Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two crashes, killing 1   {   }

Justin Bourque gets 75 years with no chance of parole for Mountie murders   {   }

Luka Magnotta trial: Father says Magnotta grew up isolated   {   }

Jian Ghomeshi allegedly choked, beat N.B. woman with belt   {  }

Dean Del Mastro found guilty in election spending case  {   }

Air Canada service agents call carry-on crackdown too unpleasant  {   }

Edmonton’s homeless piano man reveals rough life behind his music   {   }

Stephen Colbert praises Kevin Vickers: ‘To hell with Bruce Willis’  {  }

Brockville murder-suicide suspected after woman, child found dead   {   }

John Forzani, ex-Stampeder and business tycoon, dead at 67    {   }

-13 photo slide show- Burkina Faso protesters force president to step down   {   }

-Blog- Send us your stories of racism  {  }

 

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photo of man changing clocks

Daylight saving time 2014 ends this weekend. Clocks fall back at 2 a.m. on Sunday in most of the country.

Other:

-Updated- MP Dean Del Mastro guilty in election spending case, could lose seat  {   }

Public says goodbye to Patrice Vincent, slain warrant officer   {   }

To legalize pot or not? More states hold marijuana midterms   {  }

Double-gloving, better face protection added in new guidance on Ebola    {  }

Football star and business tycoon John Forzani dead at 67    {  }

Foreign caregiver reforms impose cap, make live-in requirement optional    {  }

Milos Raonic beats Roger Federer for 1st time   {  }

Jian Ghomeshi allegedly choked, beat N.B, woman with belt    {  }

-Analysis- Was Ottawa attacker Michael Zehaf-Bibeau a terrorist?    {   }

Some Air Canada staff hate the new carry-on bag policy as much as you do   {  }

2 rounds of chemfail to shring Rob Ford’s tumour   {  }

-Photos- Halloween celebrations around the world   {  }

NHL star Vanek linked to gambling, money laundering case: report   {  }

-Must Watch- Veteran pays respects at Ottawa war memorial    { * “Canadian Viet Nam War veteran attends the National War Memorial to pay respects to fallen soldier Nathan Cirillo.” *  —djo— }

-Must Watch-  CF-18 refueling videos   {   }

-Must Watch-  Edmonton’s piano man performs again    { * “After a three-day search, a CBC News crew finally caught up with Ryan Arcand, whose beautiful music has turned the homeless man into a viral star.” *   —djo—  }

-Editor’s Pick-  Daylight Saing Time 2014 ends this weekenn    {   }

-Editor’s Pick-  Antares rocket explosion: will it set back the commercialization of space?   { * The Antares Rocket exploded a couple days ago  & today the Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two –  it hasn’t been a good week for privatization of outer space. *  –djo—  }

-Editor’s Pick-  In Tunisia, democracy triumphs but troubles remain    { * “Poster child for Arab democracy, Tunisia is also big source of recuits for ISIS. *  —djo—  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

Brace for up to 30 cm of snow on Sunday, meteorologist says  { * That’s about twelve U.S. inches. *  —djo— }

Justin Bourque gets 75 years with no chance of parole for Mountie murders   {  }

Stephen Colbert praises Kevin Vickers: ‘To hell with Bruce Willis’   {  }

New Brunswick donates medical supplies to Ebola fight in West Africa   {  }

Snow still heading for New Brunswick, Bill Bourque says   { * – “New Brunswickers should brace for a significant amount of rain or snow on Sunday, according to Radio-Canada meteorologist Bill Bourque. – Environment Canada has already issued a special weather statement across New Brunswick as a low pressure system heads toward the province. – Bourque, who had warned earlier this week that as much as 30 centimetres of snow could blanket the province on Sunday, said people should be prepared for the first winter blast of the season. – “It is likely to produce the first significant snowfall,” he said. – “Significant, well we don’t start talking about significant snowfalls until we see about 15 cm of snow. Could it be more? Easily, it could be more. Could it be less? Well yes, it could be rain as well.” – There will likely be flurries on Saturday, Bourque said, but the larger amounts of precipitation will be coming on Sunday. – The meteorologist said he expects people living in eastern New Brunswick will need an umbrella, while those in central and western parts of the province will need snow shovels. – He said the exact amount of snow or rain will depend on how the low pressure system moves through the province. – “Certainly there is going to be some snow fall there in central and western New Brunswick. Now of course it is difficult to put values on snowfall amounts with this type of system because it could be mixed with rain,” he said. – Bourque said the flurries could hang around until Monday.” – *  —djo— }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Onigaming First Nation suicides prompt state of emergency   { * “Onigaming First Nation has declared a state of emergency following the community’s fourth suicide in a year.” *  —djo— }

Truth is hard but residential school reconciliation harder: Murray Sinclair   { * “Justice Murray Sinclair, head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says reconciliation for survivors of residential school abuse starts in today’s school system.” *  —djo— }

Feds negotiating residential school credits extension   { * “Today’s the deadline to apply for the $3,000 residential school personal education credits, but the federal government is considering an extension, and Dene Nation Chief Bill Erasmus is encouraging people who still want to apply to do so” *  —djo— }

$100 million Alton gas project delayed over Mi’kmaq concerns    { * “The Nova Scotia government has halted part of the construction work on the $100-million Alton Natural Gas Storage Project until Calgary-based AltaGas carries out further consultation with the Mi’kmaq, CBC News has learned.” *  —djo— }

Paranormal team investigates Saskatoon’s Park Town Hotel   {  }

Shawn Atleo defends his actions over the aboriginal education bill   {  }

Hockey Night in Peguis returns with opening of new arena  {  }

Prentice to reopen land claim negotiations with Lubicon First Nation   {  }

Nunavut actor, Natar Ungalaaq, begins work on feature film   {  }

Shawn Atleo appointed to lead new round of talks with B.C. First Nations   {  }

-Photos- Whitehorse man caught up in ’60s Scoop seeks peace  { *  “David Moroz and his twin brother were just babies when they were caught up in the so-called 60s Scoop, which saw aboriginal children placed in non-aboriginal homes in the 1960s. Now, Moroz is trying to seek peace for him and his mother in Whitehorse.” *  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

-Photos- Rescue dog with Behchoko RCMP breaks down barriers  {  }

-7 Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

 

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here.  —djo— }

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{ Almost 6:45 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thanks for your help again, Jim W, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  — And also thanks for help from “—jda—“    ———djo——— }  { & We’ve had to slow down as cute little goblins and zombies and princesses and frogs came trick-or-treating here- and there, in two time zones already —jim w— }

Thursday, 30 October, 2014 –

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Thurssday, 30 October, 2014  -( 45˚F / 7˚C –  & cloudy  @ 12:30 pm near Ithaca )-  -( 52˚F / 11˚C – Sunny, with puffy white clouds half filling a nice blue sky  @ 1:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-  -( & Snow is still in the forecast for Sunday —jim w— }  { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

— Other Media: —

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

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote

quote

“Conspiracy Watch” was busy yesterday. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-

{ –Renewable energy may currently make up only a small percentage of U.S. energy generation capacity, but it’s one of the fastest growing sectors. – Renewable energy generation—primarily wind and solar power—provided more than 40 percent of the new energy capacity in the U.S. in the first three quarters of this year, according to the latest U.S. Federation Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update. Oil, nuclear and especially coal provided little new capacity, with renewables outstripping them more than 35 times. Only natural gas, driven by the growth of fracking, showed more growth, and many industry observers think its growth potential is finite. – The new installed capacity of natural gas declined compared to the first three quarters of 2013, from 6,643 megawatt (MW) to 5,153. Wind was the big winner, upping its installed capacity from 965 MW to 1,614 in that period. In September, new wind capacity led the way with 367 MW, followed by natural gas with 114. Coal showed no increase in existing capacity so far this year. Overall, new capacity from all forms of energy declined from 11,452 in the first three quarters of last year to 8,860 this year. – Among FERC’s project updates is that Kern County, California’s Techachapi Wind Energy Storage project is now up and running. The South California Edison Project, FERC says, “consists of an 8 MW-four-hour (32 MWh) lithium-ion battery and a smart inverter system, [and] will help store energy from the existing 5,000 wind turbines and any future additions in the Techachapi Wind Resource Area. Housed inside a 6,300 square foot facility, it is the largest battery energy storage in North America.” Such projects bode well for the continued growth of wind power. – Natural gas still leads overall energy generation capacity in the U.S. by a long shot. It currently provides more than 42 percent of the total. But fracked natural gas and oil production is expected to fall off sharply, as extraction companies hit the most productive “sweet spots” first and then move on to areas with less accessible oil and gas that’s more expensive to reach. – Despite its precipitous decline, coal hangs onto the second place spot for now, generating more than 28 percent of U.S. installed capacity. Nuclear comes in next with 9.3 percent, followed by water at 8.4 percent and wind at 5.3 percent. All other forms of energy generation capacity are far behind. Solar currently provides less than one percent. But PV Magazine, which serves the photovoltaic industry, points out that FERC’s figures only include utility-scale solar, leaving out residential and business installations, which it says are among the fastest growing sources of renewable energy. – “The steady and rapid growth of renewable energy is unlikely to abate as prices continue to drop and the technologies continue to improve,” said Ken Bossong, executive director of  the nonprofit research group the SUN DAY Campaign. “The era of coal, oil and nuclear is drawing to a close; the age of renewable energy is now upon us.” –  —djo— }

 

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

Comcast Horror Stories

Comcast Horror Stories

{  Um, most of the people I know would have told you to ignore Comcast if they were trying to double bill you. Don’t cave in to ice holes – when you do, they win, when they win they come down harder on their next victim. You aided and abetted their extortion operations.  —djo— }

War Is Terrorism

War Is Terrorism

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Banksters

Banksters?

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

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

{ “On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

2nd verse of  “Defence of Fort M’Henry” By Francis Scott Key }

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

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{ & Below this begins our usual CBC News Headlines }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: Life’s little surprises explode on the launchpad?

Ka-Boom

“The company behind the dramatic launch explosion of a space station supply mission promises to find the cause of the failure and is warning residents to avoid any potentially hazardous wreckage.” -djo-  Thursday: Will this set back the commercialization of space?

-Updated- Ghomeshi vows to fight violence allegations after Trailer Park Boys star comes forward  { * “Actress Lucy DeCoutere becomes the first woman to attach her name to allegations of violence at the hands of former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi in interviews with the Toronto Star and CBC’s The Current, while Ghomeshi has posted a statement saying he intends to ‘meet these allegations directly.'” *  —djo—  }

-New- Poll suggests America’s millennials are bailing on Obama, Democrats   { * But, is this primarily because Obama and the Republicrats who backed him abandoned their core values, and sold out on the honesty of their original message? *  —djo— }

-Analysis- An ISIS recruiting hotspot — and the great Arab hope for democracy   { * “Birthplace of the Arab Spring, Tunisia has become the poster child for Arab democracy with its parliamentary elections this week, the second, peaceful set in three years. But as Sylvia Thomson reports, Tunisia is also the leading source of recruits for ISIS.” *  —djo— }

Jordin Tootoo opens up about his life: ‘Not just a hockey book’   { *  “-The first Inuk to play in the National Hockey League says he hopes his new book will inspire others to seek help with their difficulties. ‘This book is really to help people open up and not be afraid to speak.’-” –  *  —djo— }

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eeep

“Radio-Canada meteorologist Bill Bourque says up to 30 cm of snow may hit New Brunswick this coming Sunday.” —jimw–

Thursday: 30 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:

PM to announce scaled-down income-splitting for parents   {  }

Transport Canada aware of deadly GM defect before recall    {  }

TransCanada files application for Energy East pipeline    {  }

Canada’s CF-18s to start aerial attacks on ISIS in days   {  }

3 shot dead  as Burkina Faso protesters storm parliament    {  }

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ice fishing schnarr

Now this is interesting: I gave up trying to save and repost this ice fishing photo, and it decided on its own that it wanted to be here.- ‘Hmmmm-” —haunted photos?—

kids with' smart phones'

University Of Pennsylvania’s course is entitled “Wasting Time On The Internet”

“Offbeat”

Girl, 3, can legally fish, Saskatchewan judge rules   {   }

‘Technology and stuff’: The ‘Chevy Guy’ overshadows World SEries MVP   {   }

Ivy League school offers ‘wasting time on the internet’ course   { * “UPenn is certainly generating a lot of buzz this week with its new English department course “Wasting time on the Internet,” but it’s not the title of the class that has academics excited — it’s the content of the syllabus, and the views of its professor (world-renowned poetKenneth Goldsmith.) – “We spend our lives in front of screens, mostly wasting time: checking social media, watching cat videos, chatting, and shopping,” wrote Goldsmith in the course’s syllabus, which is live on UPenn’s website. “What if these activities — clicking, SMSing, status-updating, and random surfing — were used as raw material for creating compelling and emotional works of literature?” –  “Could we reconstruct our autobiography using only Facebook? Could we write a great novella by plundering our Twitter feed? Could we reframe the internet as the greatest poem ever written?” the syllabus continues. “Distraction, multi-tasking, and aimless drifting is mandatory.” * & maybe they shouldn’t forget to eat GMO food and drink GMO soft drinks and reak havoc on their brains w sugar. && make sur haf th wrds r sp3lld rong.  —djo— }

Daniel Radcliffe raps like Blackalicious on Tonight Show   {   }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Jian Ghomeshi allegedly attacked actress Lucy DeCoutere on 2003 date   {   }

Income-splitting changes coming from the Tories   { * Harper is weasel-ing back on a campaign promise from 2011, capping the amount of money a couple can save through ‘income-splitting’ at $2,000 per couple, if they have children younger than 18 years old — ‘once the federal budget is balanced’. * ALL Government taxes are extortion based on fraudulent pretexts. Lock the bums up and throw away the keys —djo—  }

Liquot store shelf collapse in Whitehorse spills $50K — mostly fine scotch   {   }

Maine Nurse Kaci Hickox defies Ebola quarantine again   {  }

Emilia Earhart mystery: Metal found on Pacific island from aviator’s plane, group says  {   }

“Significant snowfall’ may arrive in Atlantic Canada on Sunday: Environment Canada  {   }

Doug Ford’s PC leadership ambitions leave Tories split   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Stephen Harper tells MPs he’s sorry he left during attack  {  }

Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out and reveals he’s gay   {   }

Hawk, Calgary police dog, to help chil witnesses is sex abuse case    {   }

-20 photo slide show- Fighting the Ebola outbreak   {   }

-Blog- Ivy league school offers ‘wasting time on the internet’ course  {  }

 

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Other:

Faulty FM ignition switch linked to 2nd crash death in Canada  {   }

‘I’m proud to be gay’, Apple CEO Tim Cook says   { * Gay CEOs have nothing to do with why I’m mad at Apple for dumbing down and siding with the forces of planned obsolescence and changing interfaces every year or two to force people to buy new periferal devices when the old ones would work fine. I expected better etchics from Apple. *  —djo— }

-New- Phys Ed teacher gets students moving move — in wheelchairs   {  }

World Series celebration turns violent in some areas of San Francisco    {  }

-Updated-TransCanada’s Energy East pipelin project goes to NEB for approval    {  }

Will the Antares rocket explosion set back the commercialization of space?    { * “Commercialization / Privatization = Not Good” *  —djo— }

Israeli police fatally shoot Palestinian suspected of targeting activist   {  }

4 of Surrey 6 murder investigators accused of sexual contact with witnesses    {  }

-Must Watch- Governor General visits War Memorial    {   }

-Must Watch-  World Series celebration turns violent   {   }

-Must Watch-  Beluga whale gives birth    {   }

-Editor’s Pick-  Looking for economic recovery that speaks English: Don Pittis    { * “Sharing this story of recovery and growing ‘animal spirits’ may just make it true.” *  —djo—   }

-Editor’s Pick-  Don’t overload CSIS: The case for a separate foreign spy agency    {   }

-Editor’s Pick-  5 Halloween makeup tips    {   }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

Brace for up to 30 cm of snow on Sunday, meteorologist says  { * That’s about twelve U.S. inches. *  —djo— }

Late school bus fix coming, says Anglophone South School District   {  }

UNB reopens Toole Hall in Fredericton after small explosion   {  }

Wheelchair-using students get level playing field in Grand-Digue, N.B.   {  }

Armed robbery at Moncton Greco Pizza probed by RCMP   {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

-Photos- Nunavut releases human anatomy glossary in 4 languages   {  }

Gary Moostoos not ready to meet with City Centre Mall after ban   { * “An aboriginal outreach worker said he is not yet ready to meet with the property managers of an Edmonton mall after he was banned from the property in what he believes was a case of racial profiling.” *  —djo— }

Jordin Tootoo opens up about his life: ‘Not just a hockey book’   { * “The first Inuk to play in the National Hockey League says he hopes his new book will inspire others to seek help with their difficulties. ‘This book is really to help people open up and not be afraid to speak.” *  —djo— }

$100 million Alton gas project delayed over Mi’kmaq concerns    { * “The Nova Scotia government has halted part of the construction work on the $100-million Alton Natural Gas Storage Project until Calgary-based AltaGas carries out further consultation with the Mi’kmaq, CBC News has learned.” *  —djo— }

Playing with fire: Manitoba reserves lag in firefighting   {  }

Why are foster homes relatively rare in Manitoba First Nations?   { * “Obstacles in licensing foster homes on reserves means at-risk children are being sent to Winnipeg.” *  —djo— }

Woods Cree language featured in new story book, to preserve language   {  }

Manitoba Mukluks keeps tradition alive in the fashion world   {  }

Indigenous physicial brings unique perspective to her practice   {  }

City Centre Mall ban on Gary Moostoos will be lifted, company says   { *** On the radio last night, I heard that Representatives of the Mall have apologized and admitted they were wrong. Above on this page, Gary Moostoss says he is not yet ready to meet with the official representatives of the property managers. My guess is, Gary Moostoos has a good reason to wait, and if I had anything to say about this, I would back him all the way. ***  —jim w—  }

-New- Final arguments in dispute over chemotherapy for First Nations girl  { * “An Ontario court hears final arguments in the precedent-setting case of whether a child can be forced into protective care without the say-so of the Children’s Aid Service.”  *   —djo— }

-Photos- Whitehorse man caught up in ’60s Scoop seeks peace  { *  “David Moroz and his twin brother were just babies when they were caught up in the so-called 60s Scoop, which saw aboriginal children placed in non-aboriginal homes in the 1960s. Now, Moroz is trying to seek peace for him and his mother in Whitehorse.” *  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

-Photos- Rescue dog with N.W.T. RCMP breaks down barriers  {  }

-Photos- John Amagoalik, ‘Father of Nunavut’ honoured in Iqaluit   {  }

‘I see this every day:’ Aboriginal outreach worker banned from Edmonton mall  {  }

Gameti, Wrigley RCMP detachments postponed indefinitely   {  }

Faceless Dollsbring awareness to missing, murdered aboriginal women   {  }

‘Pocahottie’ Halloween costume offends aboriginal woman  {  }

-Audio- Aboriginal Midwife Melissa Brown   {  }

-7 Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

 

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here.  —djo— }

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{ Almost 3:45 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thanks for your help again, Jim W, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  — And also thanks for help from “—jda—“    ———djo——— }

Wednesday, 29 October, 2014 –

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Wednesday, 29 October, 2014  -( 54˚F / 12˚C –  & cloudy  @ 2:30 pm near Ithaca The ground was all wet downtown a while ago, I thought it had rained while I was busy indoors and hadn’t noticed. Maybe the construction guys broke a water line?)-  -( 61˚F / 16˚C –  Cloudy and Threatening here  @ 2:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-  -( Did somebody forecast snow??? — aaaaaa! —jim w— }  { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

— Other Media: —

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

Urgent!

“If you’re not worried about your privacy, freedom, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness- you haven’t been paying attention” -djo-

quote

“Conspiracy Watch” was busy yesterday. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-

{ –Renewable energy may currently make up only a small percentage of U.S. energy generation capacity, but it’s one of the fastest growing sectors. – Renewable energy generation—primarily wind and solar power—provided more than 40 percent of the new energy capacity in the U.S. in the first three quarters of this year, according to the latest U.S. Federation Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update. Oil, nuclear and especially coal provided little new capacity, with renewables outstripping them more than 35 times. Only natural gas, driven by the growth of fracking, showed more growth, and many industry observers think its growth potential is finite. – The new installed capacity of natural gas declined compared to the first three quarters of 2013, from 6,643 megawatt (MW) to 5,153. Wind was the big winner, upping its installed capacity from 965 MW to 1,614 in that period. In September, new wind capacity led the way with 367 MW, followed by natural gas with 114. Coal showed no increase in existing capacity so far this year. Overall, new capacity from all forms of energy declined from 11,452 in the first three quarters of last year to 8,860 this year. – Among FERC’s project updates is that Kern County, California’s Techachapi Wind Energy Storage project is now up and running. The South California Edison Project, FERC says, “consists of an 8 MW-four-hour (32 MWh) lithium-ion battery and a smart inverter system, [and] will help store energy from the existing 5,000 wind turbines and any future additions in the Techachapi Wind Resource Area. Housed inside a 6,300 square foot facility, it is the largest battery energy storage in North America.” Such projects bode well for the continued growth of wind power. – Natural gas still leads overall energy generation capacity in the U.S. by a long shot. It currently provides more than 42 percent of the total. But fracked natural gas and oil production is expected to fall off sharply, as extraction companies hit the most productive “sweet spots” first and then move on to areas with less accessible oil and gas that’s more expensive to reach. – Despite its precipitous decline, coal hangs onto the second place spot for now, generating more than 28 percent of U.S. installed capacity. Nuclear comes in next with 9.3 percent, followed by water at 8.4 percent and wind at 5.3 percent. All other forms of energy generation capacity are far behind. Solar currently provides less than one percent. But PV Magazine, which serves the photovoltaic industry, points out that FERC’s figures only include utility-scale solar, leaving out residential and business installations, which it says are among the fastest growing sources of renewable energy. – “The steady and rapid growth of renewable energy is unlikely to abate as prices continue to drop and the technologies continue to improve,” said Ken Bossong, executive director of  the nonprofit research group the SUN DAY Campaign. “The era of coal, oil and nuclear is drawing to a close; the age of renewable energy is now upon us.” –  —djo— }

 

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

"Stop the G20?"

I gathered so much stuff last night, I forgot where this came from- but it was tweeted.

{  Um, I can’t endorse anything that would bring us down to the level of the evil sonuvvaguns who are looking for an excuse to react violently to intilligent dissent. Pick your battles, pick your words. Your mind is your best weapon, leave their weapons out of this.  —djo— }

Smokestacks

I have to check this one out- —djo—

{ -Followed the link above to this: * – “This is embarrassing. – Canada is dead last among industrialized nations in a new climate change performance index. – “Canada still shows no intention on moving forward with climate policy and therefore remains the worst performer of all industrialized countries,” says the report released by Germanwatch, a sustainable development advocacy group. – The index takes into account a variety of indicators related to greenhouse gas emissions, development of emissions, climate policy, renewable energy and energy efficiency. – Canada particularly stands out when comparing its low scores on emissions, renewable energy investments and climate policies.

– “This shouldn’t come as much surprise to Canadians. – Back in June, when U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans for historic reductions in carbon emissions, Stephen Harper reversed his long-standing wait-and-see what the Americans do position on emissions, shifting to a new line that he had actually solved the problem two years ago. – That, of course, isn’t true. Earlier this month, an audit conducted by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development found the federal government’s policies to reduce emissions has only gotten us 7% of the way to meeting Canada’s Copenhagen Accord targets. – On the other hand, we’re dealing with a government that believes increased fossil fuel use has a correlation with improved air and water quality.” – * —djo— }

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Banksters

Banksters?

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

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

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{ & Below this begins our usual CBC News Headlines }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: Life’s little surprises explode on the launchpad?

Ka-Boom

“The company behind the dramatic launch explosion of a space station supply mission promises to find the cause of the failure and is warning residents to avoid any potentially hazardous wreckage.” -djo-

MPs hail ‘hero’ guard in return to caucus room 1 week after shooting  { * “New Democrat MPs applauded a House of Commons guard who used his body to block the door to their caucus room when a gunman attacked Parliament one week ago. All three parties returned today to the caucus rooms they were in when Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacked last week.” *  Yeah, it probably took more guts to block the door than to step out with a loaded gun and kill somebody we’d probably much rather have questioned.  —djo—  }

Company searches for cause of Antares rocket liftoff explosion   {  }

Nathan Cirillo-inspired racism ‘experiment’ ends with punch to face   { * “In the wake of Nathan Cirillo’s shooting death in Ottawa, a young filmmaker staged a “social experiment” in downtown Hamilton to see how people would react to overt racism against Muslim people.” *  —djo— }

-Analysis- Republicans have high Senate hopes — and real presidential troubles: Neil Macdonald   { * – “Republicans may well gain control of the Senate in next week’s midterms. But when a two-time loser like Mitt Romney leads the GOP list of presidential contenders, you know this is a party in trouble, Neil Macdonald writes.” –  *  —djo—  *** Several ‘Psychics’ and ‘Technical Remote Viewers’ have seen a future in which the 2016 elections in the U.S.A. will not be allowed to go forward. Something Major and disastrous happens between now and then, according to them.  —jim w— }

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eeep

“Radio-Canada meteorologist Bill Bourque says up to 30 cm of snow may hit New Brunswick this coming Sunday.” —jimw–

Wednesday: 29 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:

New rail measures will include more audits, handbrake use   {  }

Revenue Canada admits letters to taxpayers confusing   {  }

Extra $46 per person could reduce homelessness: report    {  }

New terror laws require evidence-based approach: watchdogs   {  }

MPs attend caucus meetings 1 week after Ottawa shootings   {  }

Ottawa unveils new measures in response to Lac-Mégantic   {  }

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Daniel Radcliffe

“Offbeat”

Daniel Radcliffe raps like Blackalicious on Tonight Show   {   }

Telescope to help unravel interstellar mysteries using social media   {   }

Trick about 4:30 p.m. Halloween curfew no treat for police   {  }

10 tips from master Halloween pumpkin carvers   {   }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Nathan Cirillo-inspired racism ‘experiment’ ends with punch to face   {   }

REvenue Canada’s letters full of gobbledegook, internal report finds   {   }

Ottawa shooting: New Democrats hail ‘hero’ guard who protected MPs   {   }

Winnipeg police search home of Andrea Giesbrecht, accused in dead infants case   {  }

Woman with intellectual disabillity sexually assaulted on bus as support worker sat nearby  {   }

“Significant snowfall’ may arrive on Sunday: Environment Canada  {   }

Antares rocket explosion: Orbital Sciences Corp. looks for cause of blast   {   }

Sexual images in Air Canada flight decks worse than airline admits: pilot  {  }

Republicans may take Senate next week, presidency a whole other matter   {   }

Prof decries Crown’s proposed Justin Bourque sentence as ‘vengeance-based’    {   }

-20 photo slide show- Fighting the Ebola outbreak   {   }

-Blog- Millennials shun voice mail in favour of texting  {  }

 

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Other:

-Video- 5 Halloween makeup tips  {   }

iPhone users be patient: Apple Pay not not expected in Canada any time soon   {  }

Woman with intellectual disability sexually assaulted on bus as support worker sat nearby   {  }

Canadian held in Indonesia likely to face charges, family says    {  }

Maine nurse plans to end Ebola quarantine    {  }

Winnipeg polic search home of accused in dead infants case    {  }

Transport Canada tightens rail safety regulations in Lac-Mégantic aftermath    {  }

Pilot says some explicit images left on Air Canada flight deck ‘definitely pornographic’    {  }

New Zealanders to vote on changing flag    {  }

Hockey legend Gordie Howe resting after suffering  stroke    {  }

Daylight saving time 2014 ends this weekend   {  }

Watchdogs urge caution in boosting federal policing powers   {  }

-Analysis- Looking for an economic recovery that speaks English: Don Pittis   {  }

$46 a year per Canadian would dramatically reduce homelessness: report    {  }

ROM mummy Justine’s real name was Nefret-Mut, researchers reveal    {  }

-Must Watch- They’re arming the guards at Buckingham Palace    {   }

-Must Watch-  Norway flooding    {   }

-Must Watch-  85th anniversary of Black Tuesday    {   }

-Editor’s Picks-  Are Back :

-Editor’s Pick-  Looking for economic recovery that speaks English: Don Pittis    { * “Sharing this story of recovery and growing ‘animal spirits’ may just make it true.” *  —djo—   }

-Editor’s Pick-  Don’t overload CSIS: The case for a separate foreign spy agency    {   }

-Editor’s Pick-  5 Halloween makeup tips    {   }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

Brace for up to 30 cm of snow on Sunday, meteorologist says  { * That’s about twelve U.S. inches. *  —djo— }

TransCanada set to file Energy East pipeline application   {  }

Prof decries Crown’s proposed Justin Bourque sentence as ‘vengeance-based’   {  }

Trick about 4:30 pm Halloween curfew no treat for police   {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

-New- $100 million Alton gas project delayed over Mi’kmaq concerns    { * “The Nova Scotia government has halted part of the construction work on the $100-million Alton Natural Gas Storage Project until Calgary-based AltaGas carries out further consultation with the Mi’kmaq, CBC News has learned.” *  —djo— }

-New- Final arguments in dispute over chemotherapy for First Nations girl  { * “An Ontario court hears final arguments in the precedent-setting case of whether a child can be forced into protective care without the say-so of the Children’s Aid Service.”  *   —djo— }

-Photos- Whitehorse man caught up in ’60s Scoop seeks peace  { *  “David Moroz and his twin brother were just babies when they were caught up in the so-called 60s Scoop, which saw aboriginal children placed in non-aboriginal homes in the 1960s. Now, Moroz is trying to seek peace for him and his mother in Whitehorse.” *  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

-Photos- Rescue dog with N.W.T. RCMP breaks down barriers  {  }

-Photos- John Amagoalik, ‘Father of Nunavut’ honoured in Iqaluit   {  }

‘I see this every day:’ Aboriginal outreach worker banned from Edmonton mall  {  }

Gameti, Wrigley RCMP detachments postponed indefinitely   {  }

Faceless Dollsbring awareness to missing, murdered aboriginal women   {  }

‘Pocahottie’ Halloween costume offends aboriginal woman  {  }

-Audio- Aboriginal Midwife Melissa Brown   {  }

-7 Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

 

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here.  —djo— }

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{ Almost 4:45 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thanks for your help again, Jim W, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  — And also thanks for help from “—jda—“    ———djo——— }

Tuesday, 28 October, 2014

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— } { & Now, maybe we can clean up some of the cartoons and stuff we’ve been repeating more often than we intended to  ———-jda—— } { There is still a little bit of clutter in this post, but we hope to clear that up tormorrow. —jim w— }

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Tuesday, 28 October, 2014  -( 69˚F / 20˚C –  & Mostly Grey with bits of sunshine now and then   @ 11:30 am near Ithaca )-  -( 46˚F / 8˚C –  Sunny with some clouds  @ 1:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

—New Week? Clean Slate?—

 { This is from ecowatch.com: }

Wind and solar collectors

Renewable Energy becoming more of a factor in the U.S.A. these days.

{ –Renewable energy may currently make up only a small percentage of U.S. energy generation capacity, but it’s one of the fastest growing sectors. – Renewable energy generation—primarily wind and solar power—provided more than 40 percent of the new energy capacity in the U.S. in the first three quarters of this year, according to the latest U.S. Federation Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update. Oil, nuclear and especially coal provided little new capacity, with renewables outstripping them more than 35 times. Only natural gas, driven by the growth of fracking, showed more growth, and many industry observers think its growth potential is finite. – The new installed capacity of natural gas declined compared to the first three quarters of 2013, from 6,643 megawatt (MW) to 5,153. Wind was the big winner, upping its installed capacity from 965 MW to 1,614 in that period. In September, new wind capacity led the way with 367 MW, followed by natural gas with 114. Coal showed no increase in existing capacity so far this year. Overall, new capacity from all forms of energy declined from 11,452 in the first three quarters of last year to 8,860 this year. – Among FERC’s project updates is that Kern County, California’s Techachapi Wind Energy Storage project is now up and running. The South California Edison Project, FERC says, “consists of an 8 MW-four-hour (32 MWh) lithium-ion battery and a smart inverter system, [and] will help store energy from the existing 5,000 wind turbines and any future additions in the Techachapi Wind Resource Area. Housed inside a 6,300 square foot facility, it is the largest battery energy storage in North America.” Such projects bode well for the continued growth of wind power. – Natural gas still leads overall energy generation capacity in the U.S. by a long shot. It currently provides more than 42 percent of the total. But fracked natural gas and oil production is expected to fall off sharply, as extraction companies hit the most productive “sweet spots” first and then move on to areas with less accessible oil and gas that’s more expensive to reach. – Despite its precipitous decline, coal hangs onto the second place spot for now, generating more than 28 percent of U.S. installed capacity. Nuclear comes in next with 9.3 percent, followed by water at 8.4 percent and wind at 5.3 percent. All other forms of energy generation capacity are far behind. Solar currently provides less than one percent. But PV Magazine, which serves the photovoltaic industry, points out that FERC’s figures only include utility-scale solar, leaving out residential and business installations, which it says are among the fastest growing sources of renewable energy. – “The steady and rapid growth of renewable energy is unlikely to abate as prices continue to drop and the technologies continue to improve,” said Ken Bossong, executive director of  the nonprofit research group the SUN DAY Campaign. “The era of coal, oil and nuclear is drawing to a close; the age of renewable energy is now upon us.” –  —djo— }

 

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

RCMP, China, & US Postal Service

3 Tweets as they came in.

{  (1) I was wondering about that video. (2) I think Su got this one right, & (3) Who’s monitoring whose mail and why?  —djo— }

Smokestacks

I have to check this one out- —djo—

{ -Followed the link above to this: * – “This is embarrassing. – Canada is dead last among industrialized nations in a new climate change performance index. – “Canada still shows no intention on moving forward with climate policy and therefore remains the worst performer of all industrialized countries,” says the report released by Germanwatch, a sustainable development advocacy group. – The index takes into account a variety of indicators related to greenhouse gas emissions, development of emissions, climate policy, renewable energy and energy efficiency. – Canada particularly stands out when comparing its low scores on emissions, renewable energy investments and climate policies.

– “This shouldn’t come as much surprise to Canadians. – Back in June, when U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans for historic reductions in carbon emissions, Stephen Harper reversed his long-standing wait-and-see what the Americans do position on emissions, shifting to a new line that he had actually solved the problem two years ago. – That, of course, isn’t true. Earlier this month, an audit conducted by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development found the federal government’s policies to reduce emissions has only gotten us 7% of the way to meeting Canada’s Copenhagen Accord targets. – On the other hand, we’re dealing with a government that believes increased fossil fuel use has a correlation with improved air and water quality.” – * —djo— }

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Banksters

Banksters?

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

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

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{ & Below this begins our usual CBC News Headlines }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?:

Cluster Boxes Suck

A Bedford, N.S., woman has questions for Canada Post after she discovered the keys for her new community mailbox open not only her own mailbox, but at least one of her neighbour’s as well.

Live Coverage of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s funeral  { * This is a little too intrusive for me There’s a photo of two men in uniform comforting a woman who looks like she can barely stand up and isn’t trying to hold back her tears. * —djo—  }

-Updated- ‘I am sorry,’ Mountie killer Justin Bouque tells court   { * – Questions I would ask him: “Are you being treated with any psychiatric drugs?” – “Have you ever been bullied by anyone, in your home, at school, on the street?” – “Is anyone in your family connected with the military?” – “Is anyone in your family connected with any police department?” – “Have you ever been bullied by police or military personnel?” – “Do you often feel like you’re powerless, at the mercy of mean spirited authority figures?” – “Do you often feel like your life is not real, that you are dreaming and none of this makes any sense?” – “Have you ever been hypnotized?” – & Then I would want to have him hypnotized by someone I could trust, and questioned in a room with a two-way mirror (which could be hidden behind a curtain which would be drawn open after he was ‘under’) and all kinds of interested parties would be in a sound proof room on the other side of that mirror while he is being probed to see if anybody put him up to this, of if he actually came up with this plan on his own, what influenced him? – *   —jim w— }

Not served in French, Ottawa couple wins Supreme Court case against Air Canada   { * “The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of an Ottawa couple who sued Air Canada for not adhering to Canadian language laws, but has also decided they are not entitled to any financial compensation from the airline.” *  —djo— }

-Analysis- John Tory ends Rob Ford’s reign over Toronto   { * – “John Tory has what he wanted, and it would seem the people of the city got what they wanted: a new mayor and a new approach at city hall. But, the race was a lot closer than many predicted.” – Doug Ford lost to John Tory by 6% of the votes. Olivia Chow reportedly suffered, losing votes she would have gotten to the John Tory camp; -too many voters were convinced that a vote for her would ensure a Doug Ford Victory. –  *  —jim w— }

N.S. woman shocked new community mailbox key opens neighbour’s mailbox too   { See photo- }

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Two soldiers and a crying woman.

Photo that ran with the article on Cpl. Cirillo’s Funeral.

Tuesday: 28 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:  ?

Watch Live Funeral procession for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo    {  }

CBC earns Canadian broadcast rights for 2018, 2020 Olympics   {  }

Bourque tells N.B. court he’s sorry for killing 3 Mounties   {  }

PBO: $2.8B would buy only 4 Arctic patrol ships, not 6-8   {  }

Public Works minister: PBO report based on erroneous data   {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

& Today’s special sub section today entitled: “Ontario Municipal Election”

 

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green crab

“Green Crab”

“Offbeat”

Drone being used to survey damage from alien crab species   {   }

‘It looked real:’ Yellowknife RCMP respond to Halloween decoration   {   }

Stephen Hawking joins Facebook, jokes about his ‘robot voice’   {  }

How to make your own wearable technology   {   }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Live coverage of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s funeral   {   }

Michel and Lynda Thibodeau awarded no money over lack of French on Air Canada flight   {   }

Just Bourque, Moncton Mountie killer, says ‘I am sorry’   {   }

John Tory ends Rob Ford’s reign over Toronto   {  }

Alanis Morissette accused of faking ‘sick’ after cancelling fundraiser appearance  {   }

Downtown living the ‘new normal’, report says   {   }

BP spill left big oily ‘bathtub ring’ on sea floor   { * EcoWatch reported this bathtub ring was the size of Rhode Island. *  —djo—  }

Government won’t pay $30K so woman can chew  {  }

With Olivia Chow’s jaw-dropping loss, can the left ever win back Toronto?   {   }

Invasive green crab impact being surveyed by conservation group    {   }

-11 photo slide show- Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s funderal in Hamilton   {   }

-Blog- Google inbox beta users selling invites on Ebay for up to $300  {  }

 

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Other:

Woman slams driver’s head on steering wheel in drive-thru road rage  {   }

BP spill left big oily ‘bathtub ring’ on sea floor   {  }

Canada improves slightly in global gender-gap ranking   {  }

Budget only buys half the Arctic ships promised, watchdog says    {  }

No coverage for Saskatoon woman’s $30K dental proceedure so she can chew    {  }

CBC wins Olympic rights for 2018, 2020    {  }

-Analysis- Can the left ever win back the Toronto mayoralty?    {  }

-Analysis- Liberal MP wants political ads to get a lot more personal    {  }

Tories sweep Alberta byelections    {  }

-Analysis- Forget CSIS, if we’re going to spy abroad, let’s do it right: Brian Stewart    {  }

-Analysis- Doug Ford omnipresent at city hall no longer     {  }

Canada’s child poverty rate down despite recession, UNICEF finds   {  }

-Live- Texas nurse to leave Emory University Hospital free of Ebola   {  }

-Consumer- Fina art more accessible as once-exclusive galleries welcome new buyers    {  }

Nun awake while heart valve replaced, procedure livestreamed    {  }

-Must Watch- Procession and service for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo LIVE    {   }

-Must Watch-  London concert honours slain Canadian soldiers    {   }

-Must Watch-  Cpl. Cirillo visitation in Hamilton    {   }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

‘I am sorry,’ Mountie killer Justin Bourque tells court  {  }

Imperial Theatre needs about $1M in repairs   {  }

Fredericton redraws council wards for 1st time since 1973   {  }

Caraquet Co-op survives through merger with IGA chain in Quebec   {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Gameti, Wrigley RCMP detachments postponed indefinitely   { * “Seven years ago, the RCMP and the territorial government announced they would establish police detachments in two remote N.W.T. communities. Now, it seems there is no plan. The territory’s justice minister, David Ramsay, is blaming the federal government.” *  —djo— }

‘Pocahottie’ Halloween costume offends aboriginal woman { * “A Winnipeg woman says some Halloween costumes being sold in the city are offensive and hurtful to her aboriginal culture, including one outfit that depicts the Disney character Pocahontas in a short, low-cut dress.”  *   —djo— }

Guide aims to help Nunavut women deal with domestic violence  { *  “The YWCA/Aggvik Society has released a new guide that gives women the basic information they need to cope with domestic violence and seek legal aid if necessary.” *  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

Cree leaders in Quebec use social media for campaign against uranium  {  }

Confusion over education credit for residential school survivors   {  }

Young people from northern Manitoba in Winnipeg learning to lead  {  }

Saskatoon council calls for inquiry into missing, murdered indigenous women   {  }

161 fires in 2013 alarm Nunavut officials   {  }

-Audio- Curfews need rethinking, say youth centre reps   {  }

-7 Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

 

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here.  —djo— }

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{ Almost 4:45 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thanks for your help again, Jim W, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  — And also thanks for help from “—jda—“    ———djo——— }

Monday, 27 October, 2014 –

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— } { & Now, maybe we can clean up some of the cartoons and stuff we’ve been repeating more often than we intended to  ———-jda—— } { There is still a little bit of clutter in this post, but we hope to clear that up tormorrow. —jim w— }

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Monday, 27 October, 2014  -( 48˚F / 9˚C –  & sunny   @ 11:30 am near Ithaca )-  -( 45˚F / 7˚C –  Sunny with some clouds  @ 12:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

—New Week? Clean Slate?—

 {  }

Demonstration against internet tax

Tweeted by @ accessnow: -Ten thousand Hungarians take to the streets over planned “Internet Tax” – which they claim would curb fundamental rights and freedoms.

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

John Baird endorses brain police.

Here come the thought police? -djo-

domonstration against oil sands

Re-Tweeted: DenisMcCready ‏@DenisMcCready 2h2 hours ago
Au final plus de 2500 personnes @ Sorel-Tracy contre le transport de pétrole sur le fleuve St-Laurent. Qc en marche!” = “@DenisMcCready –  In the end more than 2500 persons @ Sorel-Tracy against the transportation of oil on the St. Lawrence River. Quebec is marching!

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Banksters

Banksters?

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

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

{ & Below this begins the usual CBC News Headlines }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?:

Cluster Boxes Suck

A Bedford, N.S., woman has questions for Canada Post after she discovered the keys for her new community mailbox open not only her own mailbox, but at least one of her neighbour’s as well.

-Live Blog- ‘Our lives are shattered,’ court hears in Justin Bourque hearing  { * – “A Moncton courtroom is hearing dramatic audio recordings from the night Justin Bourque went on a shooting spree that killed three RCMP officers and injured two others” – *  && But- there are a lot of people lately who are realizing that modern culture, especially when combinations of psychiatric drugs are combined with alienation and isolation, team up to convince vulnerable youth that they are the heroes in a dream-like video game. Kids who shoot up their high schools might actually expect their victims to stand up and congratulate them for playing a good game.  —djo—  }

Oil price will fall to $70 a barrel in 2015, Goldman Sachs says   { * –  “One of the world’s leading investment banks says the price of the North American oil benchmark is going to fall even further, to $70 a barrel by next spring. ” – *   —jim w— }

-New- Doctor to bill employers for sick notes, call them health-care burden   { * “Nova Scotia physician Ethel Cooper-Rosen is going to start charging employers $30 for sick notes, saying they put unnecessary pressure on the health-care system and expose other patients in her waiting room to viruses.” *  —djo— }

Bats nearly wiped out in Easterb Canada by deadly fungus   {  }

N.S. woman shocked new community mailbox key opens neighbour’s mailbox too   { See photo- }

===== >>—-> Begin ‘Developing’ flash queue >>—->

Crown honouring Cpl. Cirillo.

Hamilton, Ontario City Hall as Cpl. Cirillo’s body arrived.

Sunday: 25 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:  ?

Goldman Sachs predicts oil will fall to $70/barrel in 2015   {  }

South Africa to appeal Oscar Pistorius verdict, sentence   {  }

Jian Ghomeshi to sue CBC for $50 million   {  }

End PSA prostate screening: Canadian task force   {  }

Fire forces 192 from long-term care home in Whitby, Ont.   {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

-UPdated- Spurned affection for girl possible motive in Washington school shooting  { * Authorities are seeking a motive as to why a high school student in Washington shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself. *  —djo—  *** yeah, yeah, if ya can’t find a radicalized jihadi, or a Canadian? – try to blame it on a woman? *** —jim w— }

& the special sub section today entitled: “Ontario Municipal Election” has replaced the “Ottawa shooting” Box.

 

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Santa's helpers in training

“Santa’s helpers in training.”

“Offbeat”

Do you have what it takes to get through ‘Santa School’?   {  }

Despicable Me minion makes birthday appearance at Sask. farm   {   }

Halloween dog parade in New York   {  }

Biological models: What aliens would look like and why   { *** Last week on Coast to Coast A.M. an expert on abduction cases etc. said that the only alien hybrids we see on this planet look exactly like you and me. They have almost no idea how we interact with each other or how to act in social situations. He also said most of them can control us using ‘mind control power’ from lobes in their brains that we don’t use, and we can’t control them- If this scares you, call on the arch-angels, especially Michael- or Jesus, or The Prophet -God bless him continuously with ever expanding bliss- Or a couple others that have direct lines to God- Or call on God yourself. The Divine hears every thought and whisper, and if you call out to the Divine, in whatever form you have your strongest faith, -unless your faith is in darkness- The Divine will answer. You are never alone. The bad guys can’t touch you unless you invite them to. *** —jim w— }

‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies in esixtence   {   }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, not longer with CBC   {   }

Oil price will fall to $70 a barrel in 2015, Goldman Sachs says   {   }

Nova Scotia doctor to charge employers for sick notes   {   }

Justin Bourque’s sentencing in Moncton hears victim impact statements   {  }

PSA test should be abandoned as screen for prostate cancer, task force says  {   }

BAts nearly wiped out by white-nose syndrome in eastern Canada   {   }

Marcia Strassman of Welcome Back, Kotter fame dead at 66   {   }

Canadian telecom bundling deals should be easier to understand, watchdog says  {  }

1 dead, part of Hwy 17 closed after truck loses load of logs  {   }

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and Martin Couture-Roiuleau: Their shared traits   {   }

-21 photo slide show- Fighting the Ebola outbreak   {   }

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

-Blog- Readers concerned, confused by N.S. woman’s mailbox key  {  }

 

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Other:

Public visitation for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo being held in Hamilton  {   }

Self-radicalized and adrift: The shared traits of of the ‘lone wolf’ killers   {  }

5 things to watch for today in 4 Alberta byelections   {  }

How Canada keeps track of homegrown radicals    {  }

-Go Public- Are those internet, cable and phone bundles really the deal they seem to be?    {  }

5 things to know going into Toronto’s election    {  }

U.S. school shooting has now claimed 3 lives with the death of a 14-year-old    {  }

-Analysis- The other player in the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court: Keith Boag    {  }

TV, film actress Marcia Strassman dead at 66    {  }

Age of the public apology: How How saying sorry has gone pro    {  }

Omnibus budget bill restricts refugee access to social assistance     {  }

Police say Ottawa gunman had political motives, made video   {  }

New concerns raised over Gulf of St. Lawrence oil drilling risks   {  }

-Must Watch- Hawaii volcano lava flows advance    {   }

-Must Watch-  Cirillo’s son drops puck at Hamilton hockey game    {   }

-Must Watch-  Thailand lantern festival    {   }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

Justin Bourque’s sentencing in Moncton hears victim impact statements   {  }

Flu shot now available in N.B. after national supply delay   {  }

Enterovirus D68 confirmed in Fredericton child   {  }

Bats nearly wiped out by white-nose syndrome in Eastern Canada   {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Tulita grandfather says custom adoption not being recognized   { *A Tulita, N.W.T., man says he’s still fighting to see his granddaughter desipite having an aboriginal custom adoption declarationg  —jim w— }

-Photos- Hunting for whale and votes in Barrow, Alaska { * Republicans need to pick up six seats in the November 4 election to win control of the U.S. Senate. They like their chances in Alaska. So, too, do Democrats, who are investing in an unprecedented effort in rural Alaska to get out the vote. *   —djo— }

Nunavut MLA Samuel Nuqingaq expelled from legislative assembly  { The MLA has a history of alcohol addiction and seeking help for that.  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

imagineNA TIVE’s Shane Belcourt on directing, dance and #MMIW  {  }

Nunavut justice system ‘failing children and youth’: Inuit group  {  }

-Point Of View- Defeathering Halloween: 3 things to keep in mind about headdresses  {  }

-Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

 

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here.  —djo— }

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 { Editorial? :  This from ———jda——— :

– “Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Ack! We live in a violent culture. Nobody under the age of responsibility planned it this way, at least not in this lifetime. – When the television programmes you plunk your kids down in front of are violent— When their sports are violent— When somebody out there has decided that your games and distractions should all be violent—- Why didn’t you see this coming? – Good, honest young men and women are being duped into taking up arms to support one lie against another. Embrace the love of life. Embrace the love of love. Embrace the preciousness of every life on this planet. Support each other. – To hell with the ideas that kill. To hell with philosophies that say it’s okay to kill for king and country. – We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless your government tells you to-” — We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless the controlling, obsessive men who took over and subverted your religions tell you to.” — Do not pray for vengeance. – Pray for guidance. Pray for protection from the lies that too many of our contemporaries allow to control their lives. – Pray we call come together and dismiss the governments and (small r) religions that allow darkness to smirk and laugh themselves silly because they’ve been pulling the strings and spitting out the words that convince you that you are working God’s Will when you believe you have the right to destroy the lives of any of God’s Children. – Get thee behind us, thou dupes of the dark side. – Unzip the uniforms and find there are Children of God inside. Burn down the deceptions and realize that any true Religion nurtures your body, mind, soul and spirit, and tells you that we are all one spirit. We are all children of the same divine intelligence. – Smash your delusions and realize we are all One. Before it’s too late. ———jda——— 

// Response from Cathi Harris: “Beautiful!”  —jim w— }

 

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{ Almost 1:45 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  —And also from “—jda—“ again this time —   ———djo——— }

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 – New Week? Clean Slate?

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— } { & Now, maybe we can clean up some of the cartoons and stuff we’ve been repeating more often than we intended to  ———-jda—— } { There is still a little bit of clutter in this post, but we hope to clear that up tormorrow. —jim w— }

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Sunday, 26 October, 2014  -( 48˚F / 9˚C –  Overcast & The Sun Poked Through   @ 11:15 am near Ithaca )-  -( 43˚F / 6˚C –  Grey and Very Wet Outiside  @ 12:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

—New Week? Clean Slate?—

 { Waiting for the ‘fit to hit the shan’? }

Economic Warfare

Retweeted: “UK is the 6th richest Nation, yet 13 Million live in poverty & they’ve had the highest fall in living standards since 1870” = Ekonomic Warfare = That’s the plan we’ve heard that ‘Banksters’ have been trying to institute lately- -djo-

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

domonstration against oil sands

Re-Tweeted: DenisMcCready ‏@DenisMcCready 2h2 hours ago
Au final plus de 2500 personnes @ Sorel-Tracy contre le transport de pétrole sur le fleuve St-Laurent. Qc en marche!” = “@DenisMcCready –  In the end more than 2500 persons @ Sorel-Tracy against the transportation of oil on the St. Lawrence River. Quebec is marching!

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

{ Friday appears to be the Stephen Harper Show: Anywhere the Video News crews were, Harper was centre stage. -djo- }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: ‘Are “THEY” trying to push you until somebody pushes back, so they can come down hard, institute Martial Law, claiming that, if you stand up for your rights, you are are a terrorist?’

Cluster Boxes Suck

A Bedford, N.S., woman has questions for Canada Post after she discovered the keys for her new community mailbox open not only her own mailbox, but at least one of her neighbour’s as well.

Exit polls show Ukraine overwhelmingly elects pro-West parliament  { * – “Exit poll shows pro-Europe parties have swept a parliamentary vote in Ukraine, an election result expected to strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end separatist conflict in the east, but also possibly fuel tension with Russia.”  – *  —djo—  *** But Major Ed Dames, one or our best known ‘Remote Viewers’ says Ukraine is about to fall apart- & I don’t know whether this might happen from within, or will somebody else attack and ‘conquer’ the country. // Or, is the Major such a staunch conservative that he believes that if a country goes ‘Liberal’ it has committed suicide in his eyes? ***  —djo—  }

The slayings of Cpl. Cirillo and Warrant Officer Vincent: How the week unfolded   { * –  “The events of this week won’t be soon forgotten by most Canadians — two soldiers killed in two separate attacks days apart. Here’s a look back at how the week unfolded.” – * But, what worries me is the idea that there are unethical power mad ‘ice-holes’ who believe they have the right to manipulate situations like these, to target, torture, train and activate marginalized individuals, send them off to commit crimes like we saw this week, sacrifice a few honest men and seize more power- manipulate everybody into surrendering their rights and liberties and turn this world into hell.  —jim w— }

N.S. woman shocked new community mailbox key opens neighbour’s mailbox too   { See photo- }

-Updated- CBC’s relationship with Jian Ghomeshi has ‘come to an end’   {  }

===== >>—-> Begin ‘Developing’ flash queue >>—->

Crown honouring Cpl. Cirillo.

Hamilton, Ontario City Hall as Cpl. Cirillo’s body arrived.

Sunday: 25 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:  ?

Jian Ghomeshi to sue CBC for $50 million   {  }

President Poroshenko on track to win Ukraine election   {  }

PM says Ukraine shows courage  in face of Putin aggression   {  }

2nd worker in critical condition after Sarnia, Ont., blast   {  }

13 European banks told to fix finances after flunking review    {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

-UPdated- Spurned affection for girl possible motive in Washington school shooting  { * Authorities are seeking a motive as to why a high school student in Washington shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself. *  —djo—  *** yeah, yeah, if ya can’t find a radicalized jihadi, or a Canadian? – try to blame it on a woman? *** —jim w— }

& the special sub section today entitled: “Attack in Ottawa” is still in evidence.

 

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Santa's helpers in training

“Santa’s helpers in training.”

“Offbeat”

Do you have what it takes to get through ‘Santa School’?   {  }

Despicable Me minion makes birthday appearance at Sask. farm   {   }

Halloween dog parade in New York   {  }

Biological models: What aliens would look like and why   { *** Last week on Coast to Coast A.M. an expert on abduction cases etc. said that the only alien hybrids we see on this planet look exactly like you and me. They have almost no idea how we interact with each other or how to act in social situations. He also said most of them can control us using ‘mind control power’ from lobes in their brains that we don’t use, and we can’t control them- If this scares you, call on the arch-angels, especially Michael- or Jesus, or The Prophet -God bless him continuously with ever expanding bliss- Or a couple others that have direct lines to God- Or call on God yourself. The Divine hears every thought and whisper, and if you call out to the Divine, in whatever form you have your strongest faith, -unless your faith is in darkness- The Divine will answer. You are never alone. The bad guys can’t touch you unless you invite them to. *** —jim w— }

‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies in esixtence   {   }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, not longer with CBC   {   }

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, off the air to deal with ‘personal issues’   {   }

Man arrested after Ottawa police officer punched in the face   {   }

St-Alexis woman dead after car crashes into her home   {  }

Bedford woman shocked her mail key opens neighbour’s mailbox  {   }

Stabbing at Wonderland kills man, leaves another critical   {   }

Ottawa shooting: the face-to-face encounter that ended the attack on Parliament   {   }

High fidelity 2.0: How your favourite music could sound even better  {  }

Kelowna Airport: Man in custodyafter Edmonton-Kelowna-Calgary flight threatened   {   }

Ottawa shooting: a look back at how the week unfolded   {   }

-15 photo slide show- The week in pictures, Oct. 18-24   {   }

harper sux donkey dicks

This was Tweeted last week.

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

 

-Blog- Readers concerned, confused by n>S. woman’s mailbox key  {  }

 

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Other:

Woman dead, husband seriously injured after car crashes into bedroom  {   }

Iraq soldiers retake town outside Baghdand held by ISIS   {  }

Man hit with stun gun, arrested after police officer punched in the face   {  }

U.S. Ebola quarantines could deter health workers from helping fight epidemic    {  }

Tribal community says Washington school shooter was ‘happy-go-lucky, normal kid’    {  }

2nd worker in critical condition after explosion in southwestern Ont.    {  }

Hong Kong protesters scrap vote on what to do next    {  }

CBC Ideas: Is Islam the ‘green’ religion?    {  }

13 European banks flunk central bank’s stress test    {  }

Frankline discovery: Searchers consider ‘winter dive’ to explore Erebus further    {  }

Man taken into custody in B.C. after WestJet flight threatened    {  }

‘Nude’ judge set to argue inquiry panel should toss misconduct probe   {  }

Montreal Muslim teeb’s ‘not in my name’ Facebook post goest viral   {  }

RCMP takes over Ottawa shooting investigation, OPP to probe police conduct   {   }

-Must Watch-  Sens, Habs, Leafs stand together in pre-game ceremonies    {   }

-Must Watch-  15th imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival wraps    {   }

-Must Watch-  Bridge connects mountain peaks    {   }

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Sitting, the ‘new smoking’ is killing us and costing the economy billions   { * So- should we be prepared for representatives of the Corporate Plutacracy -read that: ‘corporate based fascist government’- to begin arresting and executing people for sitting down too often? If you believe this is far-fetched, wait until you learn that somebody has copyrighted your dna and quietly had laws passed giving them the power to dictate what you can and can’t do about reproducing and ‘misusing’ the dna that they now ‘own’. And another thing: Even if ‘sitting is costing the economy billions’, how much do you think black ops budgets, and under-reported military spending are costing? More like trillions.*  —djo— *** And your governments have huge income streams that they hope you never find out about, because they do not need to tax you the way they do. Governments are fraudulently extorting money from you. Source: CAFR1.com  —jim w— * }

-Analysis- Should we stop intervening in the Middle East? Nahlah Ayed   {   }

Chinese government hackers allegedly attack Apple’s iCloud  { * One guy I met told me that the leaders in China were space-alien hybrids, “And not the good aliens, either.” -Which could be true in the poetic sense, if not literal? But, when you can’t believe anything our government tells us, and you can’t believe anything the corporate media tells us? Should we all stand in a big circle and play Kazoo music until they shut up and go home and leave us alone? *  —djo— }

-Recap- World Series:   { * Saturday’s game was won by the Giants 11-4. Friday, the Royals beat the Giants 3-2. Game 2: Royals beat Giants 7-2. Tuesday, Game 1: Giants beat Royals 7-1.  So after 4 games they are tied with 2 games each —djo—  }

"Secret Space Plane"

“Secret Space Plane”

U.S. Robotic space plane lands after secret 2-year journey around Earth   { * What we thought was a slip-up in which somebody might have admitted that there were several space craft around Mars when the comet did a fly-by, was amended by NASA to explain that 3 satellites are in orbit around Mars and they were told to hide behind the planet when the comet approached. *  —jim w— }

-Must Watch- CF-18 fighter jets head to Kuwait    { * Why would I want to watch that? Or the video of 100 snakes that were found in somebody’s house? *  —djo— }

===== There are no new “Editor’s Picks” today =====

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Glenn Greenwald in conversation about secrets, transparency and digital future  { * Now this is what I would call a “Must Watch” * —djo— }

Wednesday:-Editor’s Pick- Global deaths for communicable diseases compared   { * I wonder if they meant to say “-deaths FROM communicable diseases-” Are we on this planet to serve the bacteria? Are we dying for diseases? Ya think that might have been a Freudian sleep?  😉  —djo— }

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   { * Heck yes, When The Angels of Light come here and show everybody what’s been going on, instead of just clearing things up with “life reviews” between lives –  Can you imagine what would happen if they stand there and say, “Well, you’ve got two choices here, you can give the country back to its true owners and pay the First Nations the full value of what you stole from them, or you can go to hell.—”  * —djo—  *** Instead of doing everything you can to turn this planet into hell? ***  —jim w— }

===== Greatest Hits this week? =====

-World- Exoskeleton enables paralyzed groom to walk down the aisle  {  }

-Canada- Six indigenous cookbooks to warm you up   { * & Hey! Nobody caught the miss-spelling of ‘indigenous’ yesterday- *  —djo— }

-Business- Apple’s iCloud believed attacked by Chinese government hackers   { * While the Canadian Prime Minister was busy kissing their butts? *   —djo— }

-Politics- Cyberbullying bill draws fire from diverse mix of critics   {  }

-Politics- Federal government still mum on how to spend surplus   {  }

-Community- ‘Sexy’ kids Halloween costumes ifnite fierce debate about parental responsibility   {  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

David Kelly, longtime Fredericton city councillor, has died   {  }

Cap-Pelé home invasion sends man to hospital   {  }

Base Gagetown shuts down access for hunters   {  }

CBC’s relationship with Jian Ghomeshi has ‘come to an end’   {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Nunavut MLA Nuqingaq expelled from legislative assembly   { *On Friday morning, Justice Minister Paul Okalik moved to pass a motion that Uqqummiut MLA Samuel Nuqingaq be immediately expelled from the legislature and his seat be declared vacant.* & * – Uqqummiut MLA Samuel Nuqingaq, who represents Clyde River and Qikiqtarjuaq, has been expelled from the Nunavut Legislative Assembly. – The vote happened Friday morning in Iqaluit, when Justice Minister Paul Okalik tabled a motion that said he wanted Nuqingaq immediately expelled from the legislature and his seat declared vacant. – “Over the past year, far too much of the legislature’s time has been spent on the conduct of the member of Uqqummiut,” Okalik said. –  ​In the motion, Okalik said Nuqingaq had been disciplined by the legislative assembly “on a number of occasions for this unacceptable conduct, including persistent absences from sittings of the House and meetings of its committees and caucuses without reasonable explanation.” – ​In April, the 42-year-old faced two charges, one count of being unlawfully in a dwelling house and one count of assault. – MLAs voted to suspend Nuqingaq from the legislature following those charges. During that time, he sought treatment for alcohol addiction in Nova Scotia.​ – Later on in the article there is a mention that he underwent treatment for alcohol addiction. *  —jim w— }

-Point of View- Defeathering Halloween: 3 things to keep in mind about headdresses  { * Let’s de-feather the issue and take a naked look at the headdress. There are three things to know about the feather headdress. :

1. Who wears them?
The headdress was sacred and still is to many indigenous cultures like the Plains Cree and the Lakota people.

2. How do you get one?
They were not just handed out willy nilly, you know.They have to be earned and gifted in ceremony. Only the most fearless leaders and warriors traditionally wore them. It is kind of a big deal.

3. Why is it important to First Nations cultures?
Again, because it is a sacred item. You don’t see people running around with yarmulkes or hijabs in colourful mockery trying to be trendy.

& You don’t see people mocking soldiers’ bravery by wearing medals they didn’t earn either-  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

imagineNA TIVE’s Shane Belcourt on directing, dance and #MMIW  {  }

Nunavut justice system ‘failing children and youth’: Inuit group  {  }

-Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

Tsilhqot’in chief hanged in 1864 exonerated by B.C. Premier Christy Clark  {  }

Yukon fashion designer set for Paris runway  {  }

Film tells story of Inuk man who died in RCMP custody  {  }

Manitoba dam protesters demand revenue sharing, hydro bill help  {  }

Residential school survivors in Nunavut confused about education credit   {  }

Top 10 indigenous films of all time   {  }

Who gets to be ‘Indian’: 6 reasons why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   {  }

Grandmothers play key role helping families in North Central   {  }

Closing arguments begin in case of fed underfunding aboriginal child services   {  }

=== Previous Articles: ===

5 top picks for the imagineNA TIVE film festival  {  }

Diabetes support, prevention urged for Eskasoni   {  }

New women’s shelters planned in Cree communities   {  }

Edmonton jury selection process to be reviewed   {  }

Methadone treatment needs review, First Nations leader says    { * & I remember when they used to call Methadone “Rockefeller’s dope” *  —djo— }

Music NB awards should include aboriginal category, exec says    {  }

Defence wants mistrial in Douglas Hales murder case   {  }

Shale gas protester admits assaulting RCMP officer in Rexton   {  }

-Special Report-‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents  {  }

-Audio-Wikwemikong group releases Anishinaabe language app   {  }

Winnipeg Indigenous Rock the Vote drums up encouragement  {  }

Move over Paleo: Six indeigenous cookbooks to warm you up    {  }

Manitoba Hydro evicted from northern dam station   {  }

6 things to know about N.W.T.’s infrastructure plans   {  }

Ouellette announces plan to make Winnipeg safer for Aboriginal women   {  }

University of Regina said the number of First Nations students is up by 50 per cent over the past 5 years  {  }

Food Banks Canada project to deliver fresh food to remote First Nations   {  }

Watchdog says B.C. government ignoring recommendations to help children   {  }

Healing garden planned to remember residential schools in St. Albert   {  }

{ First Nations [ ‘Aboriginal’ but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it, even if CBC still calls it ‘aboriginal’ ] page virtually unchanged since yesterday.  —djo— }

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 { Editorial? :  This from ———jda——— :

– “Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Ack! We live in a violent culture. Nobody under the age of responsibility planned it this way, at least not in this lifetime. – When the television programmes you plunk your kids down in front of are violent— When their sports are violent— When somebody out there has decided that your games and distractions should all be violent—- Why didn’t you see this coming? – Good, honest young men and women are being duped into taking up arms to support one lie against another. Embrace the love of life. Embrace the love of love. Embrace the preciousness of every life on this planet. Support each other. – To hell with the ideas that kill. To hell with philosophies that say it’s okay to kill for king and country. – We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless your government tells you to-” — We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless the controlling, obsessive men who took over and subverted your religions tell you to.” — Do not pray for vengeance. – Pray for guidance. Pray for protection from the lies that too many of our contemporaries allow to control their lives. – Pray we call come together and dismiss the governments and (small r) religions that allow darkness to smirk and laugh themselves silly because they’ve been pulling the strings and spitting out the words that convince you that you are working God’s Will when you believe you have the right to destroy the lives of any of God’s Children. – Get thee behind us, thou dupes of the dark side. – Unzip the uniforms and find there are Children of God inside. Burn down the deceptions and realize that any true Religion nurtures your body, mind, soul and spirit, and tells you that we are all one spirit. We are all children of the same divine intelligence. – Smash your delusions and realize we are all One. Before it’s too late. ———jda——— 

// Response from Cathi Harris: “Beautiful!”  —jim w— }

 

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{ Almost 6:15 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  —And also from “—jda—“ again this time —   ———djo——— }

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 – Can We Breathe Yet?

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Saturday, 25 October, 2014  -( 65˚F / 18˚C –  & ‘mostly cloudy’   @ 5:15 pm near Ithaca )-  -( 45˚F / 7˚C –  & raining, ‘Light Mist’   @ 6:20 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

—Can We Breathe Now?—

 { Ottawa Under Attack? Or Civil Liberties Under Attack? Or Both? }

Ottawa War Memorial

* – Cpl. Nathan Cirillo guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Memorial in Ottawa in a photo posted on Twitter Wednesday. Cirillo was shot and killed by a man who later attacked the Parliament buildings. (Twitter) – *

{  We had actual breaking news this week. Tuesday, someone later labeled a ‘homegrown terrorist’ ‘committed vehicular homicide’, targetting and hitting two men in military uniforms with a vehicle, killing one.  Wednesday, a reservist guarding a War Memorial with a rifle without bullets was shot and killed by a man who walked away calmly, got into one vehicle, drove away to a spot where he got out with his weapon, stole another vehicle, drove to the Parliament Buildings, parked, got out with his rifle visible, ran up to and into the buildings, got inside -into the Conservative caucus room, where he was shot and killed by what was described as ’30 security personnel all firing at once’. The sergeant at arms at the Parliament building is credited with protecting Parliament from the ‘lone gunman’.   —djo— }

{  *** Thursday, after briefly conferring with our online staff – I had to go get ‘big water’ for our cooler and a couple loaves of ‘day-old’ bread and stuff like that there.  Today’s noon radio broadcast from Halifax sounded a whole lot different from yesterday’s evening news:

– Two ex-military types were on the air. One of them was a command level officer who was today’s go-to person. The first guy -not the general- said, -not word for word, I didn’t record this >>—-> Harper’s had us at war for the last 12 or 13 years and he acts surprised that somebody who might have ties with one of the countries we’ve been at war with might attack our soldiers? <—-<<  And I’m pretty sure it was the General who said, again I can’t remember this word for word:  >>—-> Security was lax at the Parliament buildings, not because of action or complaints from some Civil Libertarian types, but because the Harper Government cut back funds, got rid of the commissionaires who had been doing security duty and cut funds to what security operations we had left. – And I think the go-to General responded to someone’s concerns about loss of privacy and civil rights by saying that security measures should be kept at a safe distance from the doors of the Parliament buildings- not because that could be less intrusive, but because security personnel at the doors would not have enough time to stop a determined attacker who was armed.

– Today’s tone was a whole lot calmer and more sane than I expected. People from Atlantic Canada do not seem to be in love with the ‘Harper Conservatives’, and they do not appear to be ‘buying into’ the idea that ‘we should surrender what rights and liberties we have left’.  Even a cashier in a convenience store up here told me that she had noticed that everything felt a whole lot different and less crazy than it felt last night. One person said, “There are 35 million Canadians up here and two or three of them went nuts? I don’t feel any less safe and secure than I did last week.”

– & I heard one semi- off-the-wall suggestion, here we go, complete with pre-amble- “I remember an old Star Trek episode from the original series where Captain Kirk and the gang tried to convince one very peaceful race that they were in danger. In response, the ‘endangered’ society’s citizens just sort of half closed their eyes and made the weapons of anybody who held one impossible to hold, they like burned the hands of the people who thought they could use them. Don’t we have screening technology that could detect bullets and something like high tech heaters that could focus on those bullets? Show dummies with loaded guns in their pockets having their legs blown off  in a reinforced screening facility? Wouldn’t that convince would be attackers that their weapons would explode in their hands? Or their pockets? There’s gotta be a way something like that would work.-“

  – Um, luckily, this person was explaining his idea to somebody else and I didn’t need to respond that I would have to go think about that for a while before I let myself come up with an opinion I could endorse and/or live with.  —jim w— }

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

French Cartoon.

“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”

 {  & This from ———jda——— :

– “Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Ack! We live in a violent culture. Nobody under the age of responsibility planned it this way, at least not in this lifetime. – When the television programmes you plunk your kids down in front of are violent— When their sports are violent— When somebody out there has decided that your games and distractions should all be violent—- Why didn’t you see this coming? – Good, honest young men and women are being duped into taking up arms to support one lie against another. Embrace the love of life. Embrace the love of love. Embrace the preciousness of every life on this planet. Support each other. – To hell with the ideas that kill. To hell with philosophies that say it’s okay to kill for king and country. – We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless your government tells you to-” — We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless the controlling, obsessive men who took over and subverted your religions tell you to.” — Do not pray for vengeance. – Pray for guidance. Pray for protection from the lies that too many of our contemporaries allow to control their lives. – Pray we call come together and dismiss the governments and (small r) religions that allow darkness to smirk and laugh themselves silly because they’ve been pulling the strings and spitting out the words that convince you that you are working God’s Will when you believe you have the right to destroy the lives of any of God’s Children. – Get thee behind us, thou dupes of the dark side. – Unzip the uniforms and find there are Children of God inside. Burn down the deceptions and realize that any true Religion nurtures your body, mind, soul and spirit, and tells you that we are all one spirit. We are all children of the same divine intelligence. – Smash your delusions and realize we are all One. Before it’s too late. ———jda——— 

// Response from Cathi Harris: “Beautiful!”  —jim w— }

 

70,000 dead fish in Ohio.

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

{ Friday appears to be the Stephen Harper Show: Anywhere the Video News crews were, Harper was centre stage. -djo- }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme: “How Politicians Hope to Capitalize/Gain More Political Clout by Positioning Themselves Correctly in front of News Cameras after Atrocities committed by desperate, disempowered & marginalized individuals.”

"Police State?"

“Ottawa Shooting” -cbc- “Peace Tower out of focus – Police office – armed and wearing bullet-proof-vest with “Police” plainly visible on his in-focus back.” —jim w—

-Updated- 5 injured after industrial explosion, fire in southwestern Ontario   { * – “Five people are injured after an industrial explosion and fire in Sarnia, Ont., Mayor Mike Bradley said.”  –  —djo—  }

-Updated- National War Memorial scene of embrace between local paramedic and imam   { * –  “-The National War Memorial was the scene of a touching moment between a local paramedic and an imam as Canadians returned to the grounds of Parliament Hill for the first time after an attack in the nation’s capital that left one soldier dead.-”  *  —djo— *** Instead of calling this the ‘War Memorial’ maybe they should change the name to reflect something closer to Honouring the human beings who rose to defend freedom, liberty and all that good stuff instead of honouring the flippin war? —jim w— }

Montreal Muslim teen’s ‘not in my name’ Facebook post goes viral   {* – “One Quebec Muslim teenager’s message has gone viral after he posted a photo of himself holding a sign that reads ‘pas en mon nom’ — ‘not in my name’ — in response to this week’s killing of two soldiers in separate attacks in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.”  —jim w— }

===== >>—-> Begin ‘Developing’ flash queue >>—->

Crown honouring Cpl. Cirillo.

Hamilton, Ontario City Hall as Cpl. Cirillo’s body arrived.

Saturday: 25 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines: Compassion vs Flag Waving?

New anti-terror law could curtail online hate speech   { * This sounds way too much like Harper’s trying to dismantle freedom of speech to me. How about you? *  —djo—  *** A Psychologist friend in Connecticut said we shouldn’t try to censore hate speech or hateful web sites, and went on to explain- In the case of Neo Nazi sites and speech: “They don’t convert anybody. The only people who this kind of nonsense resonates with are those who are already believers in that cause. Let them speak, the more they say the more the rest of realize what complete [ ‘ice-holes’ ] they are.”  — That was Jim Briggs. & I’m —jim w— }

Visitors flock to Parliament Hill as grounds reopen  { * & Stephen Harper seized the opportunity for photo ops in an effort to look ‘Leadership’-like. *  —djo— }

Ebola death toll tops 4,900 as virus spreads: WHO  { * One day has good news, so they scramble for the next three days to come up with bad news/ anxiety enhancing news? *  —djo— }

Attempt underway to recover plane from 1940 lake crash   {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

-UPdated- Spurned affection for girl possible motive in Washington school shooting  { * Authorities are seeking a motive as to why a high school student in Washington shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others in a campus cafeteria before killing himself. *  —djo—  *** yeah, yeah, if ya can’t find a radicalized jihadi, or a Canadian? – try to blame it on a woman? *** —jim w— }

& the special sub section today entitled: “Attack in Ottawa” is still in evidence.

 

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Dog in silly costume.

“Halloween Dog Parade”

“Offbeat”

Halloween dog parade in New York   {  }

Biological models: What aliens would look like and why   { *** Last week on Coast to Coast A.M. an expert on abduction cases etc. said that the only alien hybrids we see on this planet look exactly like you and me. They have almost no idea how we interact with each other or how to act in social situations. He also said most of them can control us using ‘power’ from lobes in their brains that we don’t use, and we can’t control them- If this scares you, call on the arch-angels, especially Michael- or Jesus, or The Prophet -God bless him continuously with ever expanding bliss- Or a couple others that have direct lines to God- Or call on God. The Divine hears every thought and whisper, and if you call out to the Divine, in whatever form you have your strongest faith, -unless your faith is in darkness- The Divine will answer. You are never alone. The bad guys can’t touch you unless you invite them to. —jim w—  }

‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies in esixtence   {   }

Celebrated architect Frank Gehry flips the bird to Spanish media  {  }

Queen writes her first tweet to open tech exhibit   {  }

Snakes on the plains: 98 snakes, found in home, released to the wild   {  }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Ottawa shooting: The face-to-face encounter that ended the attack on Parliament   {   }

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s family: “He belonged to all of us” {  }

Ottawa shooting: Parliament Hill now open to public   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Zehaf-Bibeau used junk mail as temporary licence plate   {   }

Jaylen Fryberg reportedly targeted cousins in Washington school shooting   {   }

Attempt begins to recover military plane nearly 74 years after lake crash  {  }

Iran hangs woman for killing alleged rapist   {   }

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo: Outpouring of emotion as ‘Canada’s son’ comes home   {   }

-Yesterday- Ottawa shooting: Where did Michael Zehaf-Bibeau get his gun?   { * Why does this matter? This headline sounds like somebody is trying to focus your attention on a complete non-issue, most likely to tighten controls on those who legally own firearms. Illegal guns can be found anywhere. There are even cases in which unethical cops will find an unregistered gun at one scene, hang onto it for years, and then plant it in someone’s possession when they want to frame somebody. —djo— }

-Yesterday- Sun turns biggest sun spot in 24 years toward Earth   {   }

-15 photo slide show- The week in pictures, Oct. 18-24   {   }

harper sux donkey dicks

This was Tweeted last week.

Our original plans for Wednesday were to talk about Tuesday night’s guests on Coast to Coast am [radio]  { Major Ed Dames, who brought the term ‘Scientific Remote Viewing’ into the awareness of millions by explaining what he did in his military and post military carreer- Tuesday night he told George Noory, and the world, that he believes our run as the dominant species on planet earth is over. He called the United States a successful experiment that actually showed the world what a free nation could be like, “But those days are over”. & He said, in a comment about puppet heads of state in Asia” “Yes there are [ puppet heads of state ] -and some of them are quite close to home.” —djo— }

 

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

 

-Blog- ‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies ever  {  }

 

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Other:

-Video- Unmanned SpaceX cargo craft leaves space station  {   }

-New- Benito Mussolini bunker set to open to the public   { * & A yogi told me that Mussolini was Julius Caeser reincarnated. And I do believe he ended just as gruesomely. *  —jim w— }

-Infographic- Young Canadian radicals who’ve travelled overseas   {  }

Jack Bruce, bassist from 1960’s band Cream, dies at 71    { *** 🙁 He was the guy with ‘that voice’ *** —jim w— }

Women are on the front lines in Syria, Iraq battling ISIS militants    {  }

Hockey takes its place in Canada’s healing after deaths of 2 soldiers    {  }

Google exec breaks sound barrier, sets record with leap from near-space    {  }

-Analysis- Are new Ebola quarantine rules in U.S. too much?    {  }

Justin Bourque could get consecutive life terms for Mountie killings    {  }

Number of people believed to have Ebola rises above 10,000, says WHO    {  }

Town rallies around vandalized Cold Lake Mosque    {  }

-Yesterday- NYC hatchet attacker not tied to terror groups, police say   { * And, even in the U.S.A., which many see as the gun capital of the world, if a private citizen shot and killed a man attacking him, or his child, with a hatchet, the private citizen would be charged with excessive use of force. If you are five feet two and weigh 90 pounds- and some steroid-enhanced warrior who might be six feet ten and weigh three hundred pounds- all solid muscle- attacks you or your kids with an axe, you can protect yourself and your kids with an axe, but not a gun. *  —djo— }

Magnotta trial hears from computer forensics expert about video trail   { * The last headline I saw on this subject read: ‘Experts cannot tie murder video to computers’.  —dj0— }

J.K. Rowling promises Halloween treat for Harry Potter fans   {   }

Harper demands expedited review of police powers for terror suspects   {   }

-Exclusive- Councillor using city contractor to build cottage, rival alleges    {  }

Sitting, the ‘new smoking’ is killing us and costing the economy billions   { * So- should we be prepared for representatives of the Corporate Plutacracy -read that: ‘corporate based fascist government’- to begin arresting and executing people for sitting down too often? If you believe this is far-fetched, wait until you learn that somebody has copyrighted your dna and quietly had laws passed giving them the power to dictate what you can and can’t do about reproducing and ‘misusing’ the dna that they now ‘own’. And another thing: Even if ‘sitting is costing the economy billions’, how much do you think black ops budgets, and under-reported military spending are costing? More like trillions.*  —djo— *** And your governments have huge income streams that they hope you never find out about, because they do not need to tax you the way they do. Governments are fraudulently extorting money from you. Source: CAFR1.com  —jim w— * }

-Analysis- Should we stop intervening in the Middle East? Nahlah Ayed   {   }

Chinese government hackers allegedly attack Apple’s iCloud  { * One guy I met told me that the leaders in China were space-alien hybrids, “And not the good aliens, either.” -Which could be true in the poetic sense, if not literal? But, when you can’t believe anything our government tells us, and you can’t believe anything the corporate media tells us? Should we all stand in a big circle and play Kazoo music until they shut up and go home and leave us alone? *  —djo— }

-Feature- Condolences for Cpl. Cirillo and Warrant Officer Vincent   {  }

Canadian Consulate in Istanbul evacuated after suspicious powder found   {   }

-Photos- Partial solar eclipse: Your photos of the crescent Sun   {   }

-Recap- World Series:   { * WE are extremely late again today. So we’ll tell you. The Royals beat the Giants 3-2. Royals now have won 2 games and the Giants have won 1.  —djo—  }

"Secret Space Plane"

“Secret Space Plane”

U.S. Robotic space plane lands after secret 2-year journey around Earth   { * What we thought was a slip-up in which somebody might have admitted that there were several space craft around Mars when the comet did a fly-by, was amended by NASA to explain that 3 satellites are in orbit around Mars and they were told to hide behind the planet when the comet approached. *  —jim w— }

-Must Watch- CF-18 fighter jets head to Kuwait    { * Why would I want to watch that? Or the video of 100 snakes that were found in somebody’s house? *  —djo— }

-Must Watch-  Honouring Cpl. Nathan Cirillo: Canadians closer and united    {   }

-Must Watch- How Kevin Vickers subdued the Ottawa gunman    { * New details have emerged from the day that a gunman stormed the Parliament Buildings. Evan Solomon gives a play-by-play, explaining how Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers shot Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. * —djo—  }

===== There are no new “Editor’s Picks” today =====

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Glenn Greenwald in conversation about secrets, transparency and digital future  { * Now this is what I would call a “Must Watch” * —djo— }

Wednesday:-Editor’s Pick- Global deaths for communicable diseases compared   { * I wonder if they meant to say “-deaths FROM communicable diseases-” Are we on this planet to serve the bacteria? Are we dying for diseases? Ya think that might have been a Freudian sleep?  😉  —djo— }

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   { * Heck yes, When The Angels of Light come here and show everybody what’s been going on, instead of just clearing things up with “life reviews” between lives –  Can you imagine what would happen if they stand there and say, “Well, you’ve got two choices here, you can give the country back to its true owners and pay the First Nations the full value of what you stole from them, or you can go to hell.—”  * —djo—  *** Instead of doing everything you can to turn this planet into hell? ***  —jim w— }

===== Greatest Hits this week? =====

-World- Exoskeleton enables paralyzed groom to walk down the aisle  {  }

-Canada- Six indigenous cookbooks to warm you up   { * & Hey! Nobody caught the miss-spelling of ‘indigenous’ yesterday- *  —djo— }

-Business- Apple’s iCloud believed attacked by Chinese government hackers   { * While the Canadian Prime Minister was busy kissing their butts? *   —djo— }

-Politics- Cyberbullying bill draws fire from diverse mix of critics   {  }

-Politics- Federal government still mum on how to spend surplus   {  }

-Community- ‘Sexy’ kids Halloween costumes ifnite fierce debate about parental responsibility   {  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

Teen dies in waterville, New Brunswick crash   {  }

Man, 42, stabbed multiple times in downtown Moncton   {  }

Moncton Mountie killer faces consecutive life terms under new law   {  }

N.B This Week   {  }

 

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“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Nunavut MLA Nuqingaq expelled from legislative assembly   { *On Friday morning, Justice Minister Paul Okalik moved to pass a motion that Uqqummiut MLA Samuel Nuqingaq be immediately expelled from the legislature and his seat be declared vacant.* & * – Uqqummiut MLA Samuel Nuqingaq, who represents Clyde River and Qikiqtarjuaq, has been expelled from the Nunavut Legislative Assembly. – The vote happened Friday morning in Iqaluit, when Justice Minister Paul Okalik tabled a motion that said he wanted Nuqingaq immediately expelled from the legislature and his seat declared vacant. – “Over the past year, far too much of the legislature’s time has been spent on the conduct of the member of Uqqummiut,” Okalik said. –  ​In the motion, Okalik said Nuqingaq had been disciplined by the legislative assembly “on a number of occasions for this unacceptable conduct, including persistent absences from sittings of the House and meetings of its committees and caucuses without reasonable explanation.” – ​In April, the 42-year-old faced two charges, one count of being unlawfully in a dwelling house and one count of assault. – MLAs voted to suspend Nuqingaq from the legislature following those charges. During that time, he sought treatment for alcohol addiction in Nova Scotia.​ – Later on in the article there is a mention that he underwent treatment for alcohol addiction. *  —jim w— }

-Point of View- Defeathering Halloween: 3 things to keep in mind about headdresses  { * Let’s de-feather the issue and take a naked look at the headdress. There are three things to know about the feather headdress. :

1. Who wears them?
The headdress was sacred and still is to many indigenous cultures like the Plains Cree and the Lakota people.

2. How do you get one?
They were not just handed out willy nilly, you know.They have to be earned and gifted in ceremony. Only the most fearless leaders and warriors traditionally wore them. It is kind of a big deal.

3. Why is it important to First Nations cultures?
Again, because it is a sacred item. You don’t see people running around with yarmulkes or hijabs in colourful mockery trying to be trendy.

& You don’t see people mocking soldiers’ bravery by wearing medals they didn’t earn either-  —djo— }

Edmund Metatawabin visits Winnipeg to discuss his life, book   { * Residential school survivor Edmund Metatawabin’s Governor General’s Literary Award-nominated book Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History is a horrific account of residential school life but it includes a call for action and a hopeful message. *   —djo—  }

imagineNA TIVE’s Shane Belcourt on directing, dance and #MMIW  {  }

Nunavut justice system ‘failing children and youth’: Inuit group  {  }

-Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

Tsilhqot’in chief hanged in 1864 exonerated by B.C. Premier Christy Clark  {  }

Yukon fashion designer set for Paris runway  {  }

Film tells story of Inuk man who died in RCMP custody  {  }

Manitoba dam protesters demand revenue sharing, hydro bill help  {  }

Residential school survivors in Nunavut confused about education credit   {  }

Top 10 indigenous films of all time   {  }

Who gets to be ‘Indian’: 6 reasons why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   {  }

Grandmothers play key role helping families in North Central   {  }

Closing arguments begin in case of fed underfunding aboriginal child services   {  }

=== Previous Articles: ===

5 top picks for the imagineNA TIVE film festival  {  }

Diabetes support, prevention urged for Eskasoni   {  }

New women’s shelters planned in Cree communities   {  }

Edmonton jury selection process to be reviewed   {  }

Methadone treatment needs review, First Nations leader says    { * & I remember when they used to call Methadone “Rockefeller’s dope” *  —djo— }

Music NB awards should include aboriginal category, exec says    {  }

Defence wants mistrial in Douglas Hales murder case   {  }

Shale gas protester admits assaulting RCMP officer in Rexton   {  }

-Special Report-‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents  {  }

-Audio-Wikwemikong group releases Anishinaabe language app   {  }

Winnipeg Indigenous Rock the Vote drums up encouragement  {  }

Move over Paleo: Six indeigenous cookbooks to warm you up    {  }

Manitoba Hydro evicted from northern dam station   {  }

6 things to know about N.W.T.’s infrastructure plans   {  }

Ouellette announces plan to make Winnipeg safer for Aboriginal women   {  }

University of Regina said the number of First Nations students is up by 50 per cent over the past 5 years  {  }

Food Banks Canada project to deliver fresh food to remote First Nations   {  }

Watchdog says B.C. government ignoring recommendations to help children   {  }

Healing garden planned to remember residential schools in St. Albert   {  }

 

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{ Almost 7:15 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again, & especially since he is working today with a bruised rib, ouch!  —And also from “—jda—“ again this time —   ———djo——— }

Friday, 24 October, 2014 – Picking Up The Pieces?

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Friday, 24 October, 2014  -( 52˚F / 11˚C –  Blue Skies & Clear   @ 11:11 am near Ithaca )-  -( 46˚F / 8˚C –  & raining   @ 12:20 pm Closer to Halifax —jda—)-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }

—HOLD EVERYTHING—Part 3—

 { Ottawa Under Attack? }

Ottawa War Memorial

* – Cpl. Nathan Cirillo guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Memorial in Ottawa in a photo posted on Twitter Wednesday. Cirillo was shot and killed by a man who later attacked the Parliament buildings. (Twitter) – *

{  We had actual breaking news this week. Tuesday, someone later labeled a ‘homegrown terrorist’ ‘committed vehicular homicide’, targetting and hitting two men in military uniforms with a vehicle, killing one.  Wednesday, a reservist guarding a War Memorial with a rifle without bullets was shot and killed by a man who walked away calmly, got into one vehicle, drove away to a spot where he got out with his weapon, stole another vehicle, drove to the Parliament Buildings, parked, got out with his rifle visible, ran up to and into the buildings, got inside -into the Conservative caucus room, where he was shot and killed by what was described as ’30 security personnel all firing at once’. The sergeant at arms at the Parliament building is credited with protecting Parliament from the ‘lone gunman’.   —djo— }

{  Thursday, after briefly conferring with our online staff – I had to go get ‘big water’ for our cooler and a couple loaves of ‘day-old’ bread and stuff like that there.  Today’s noon radio broadcast from Halifax sounded a whole lot different from yesterday’s evening news:

– Two ex-military types were on the air. One of them was a command level officer who was today’s go-to person. The first guy -not the general- said, -not word for word, I didn’t record this >>—-> Harper’s had us at war for the last 12 or 13 years and he acts surprised that somebody who might have ties with one of the countries we’ve been at war with might attack our soldiers? <—-<<  And I’m pretty sure it was the General who said, again I can’t remember this word for word:  >>—-> Security was lax at the Parliament buildings, not because of action or complaints from some Civil Libertarian types, but because the Harper Government cut back funds, got rid of the commissionaires who had been doing security duty and cut funds to what security operations we had left. – And I think the go-to General responded to someone’s concerns about loss of privacy and civil rights by saying that security measures should be kept at a safe distance from the doors of the Parliament buildings- not because that could be less intrusive, but because security personnel at the doors would not have enough time to stop a determined attacker who was armed.

– Today’s tone was a whole lot calmer and more sane than I expected. People from Atlantic Canada do not seem to be in love with the ‘Harper Conservatives’, and they do not appear to be ‘buying into’ the idea that ‘we should surrender what rights and liberties we have left’.  Even a cashier in a convenience store up here told me that she had noticed that everything felt a whole lot different and less crazy than it felt last night. One person said, “There are 35 million Canadians up here and two or three of them went nuts? I don’t feel any less safe and secure than I did last week.”

– & I heard one semi- off-the-wall suggestion, here we go, complete with pre-amble- “I remember an old Star Trek episode from the original series where Captain Kirk and the gang tried to convince one very peaceful race that they were in danger. In response, the ‘endangered’ society’s citizens just sort of half closed their eyes and made the weapons of anybody who held one impossible to hold, they like burned the hands of the people who thought they could use them. Don’t we have screening technology that could detect bullets and something like high tech heaters that could focus on those bullets? Show dummies with loaded guns in their pockets having their legs blown off  in a reinforced screening facility? Wouldn’t that convince would be attackers that their weapons would explode in their hands? Or their pockets? There’s gotta be a way something like that would work.-“

  – Um, luckily, this person was explaining his idea to somebody else and I didn’t need to respond that I would have to go think about that for a while before I let myself come up with an opinion I could endorse and/or live with.  —jim w— }

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

Highway Of Heroes

Re-Tweeted by Elizabeth May- Green Party Leader and MP- This photo of the funeral procession along the ‘Highway of Heroes’, Canada’s Hwy 401 between Trenton and Toronto, Ontario. This is where the tradition of lining up along highways to honour war dead began.

 {  & This from ———jda——— :

– “Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Ack! We live in a violent culture. Nobody under the age of responsibility planned it this way, at least not in this lifetime. – When the television programmes you plunk your kids down in front of are violent— When their sports are violent— When somebody out there has decided that your games and distractions should all be violent—- Why didn’t you see this coming? – Good, honest young men and women are being duped into taking up arms to support one lie against another. Embrace the love of life. Embrace the love of love. Embrace the preciousness of every life on this planet. Support each other. – To hell with the ideas that kill. To hell with philosophies that say it’s okay to kill for king and country. – We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless your government tells you to-” — We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless the controlling, obsessive men who took over and subverted your religions tell you to.” — Do not pray for vengeance. – Pray for guidance. Pray for protection from the lies that too many of our contemporaries allow to control their lives. – Pray we call come together and dismiss the governments and (small r) religions that allow darkness to smirk and laugh themselves silly because they’ve been pulling the strings and spitting out the words that convince you that you are working God’s Will when you believe you have the right to destroy the lives of any of God’s Children. – Get thee behind us, thou dupes of the dark side. – Unzip the uniforms and find there are Children of God inside. Burn down the deceptions and realize that any true Religion nurtures your body, mind, soul and spirit, and tells you that we are all one spirit. We are all children of the same divine intelligence. – Smash your delusions and realize we are all One. Before it’s too late. ———jda——— 

// Response from Cathi Harris: “Beautiful!”  —jim w— }

 

Harper Hugs Trudeau?

“MPs, political staff and parliamentary personnel are struggling with emotions, two days after a gunman was killed in a shootout in the busy Centre Block of Parliament Hill.” -cbc-

{ Friday appears to be the Stephen Harper Show: Anywhere the Video News crews were, Harper was centre stage. -djo- }

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles: Today’s Theme: “How Politicians Hope to Capitalize/Gain More Political Clout by Positioning Themselves Correctly in front of News Cameras after Atrocities committed by desperate, disempowered & marginalized individuals.”

"Police State?"

“Ottawa Shooting” -cbc- “Peace Tower out of focus – Police office – armed and wearing bullet-proof-vest with “Police” plainly visible on his in-focus back.” —jim w—

‘I saw the gun in his hands’: MPs, Hill staff struggle to process shooting   { * – “MPs, political staff and parliamentary personnel are struggling with emotions, two days after a gunman was killed in a shootout in the busy Centre Block of Parliament Hill”  –  —djo—  }

-Updated- Outpouring of emotion as body of soldier killed in Ottawa arrives home in Hamilton    { * –  “-Thousands of Canadians lined highway overpasses on a 600-kilometre stretch from Ottawa to Hamilton, Ont., Friday, waving flags and bursting into spontaneous renditions of “O Canada” to honour Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as a procession carried his body home, arriving shortly before 8 p.m.-”  *  —djo— }

Another Canadian jihadi slips through the cracks   {* – “Yet another young Canadian has managed to get away to Syria to fulfil his aim of waging jihad and has boasted of his exploits online, an investigation by Radio-Canada’s program Enquête has found.” – * *** & Fear-Mongers capitalize on exploiting anything that might raise public anxiety levels – which, these days, involves photos of young men trying to look badass and jihadi-like, bragging about escaping to hot spots to join a holy war against everything the country they grew up in stands for. *** // ***** Meanwhile, the real news is that a mosque was vandalized in Canada this morning and a couple hours later, the community showed up to help remove the hate messages that had been scrawled all over the front of the building. —jim w— }

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Crown honouring Cpl. Cirillo.

Hamilton, Ontario City Hall as Cpl. Cirillo’s body arrived.

Fridayday: 24 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines: Propaganda Prevails

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo makes final journey to Hamilton, Ont   { * This has been big news all day. *  —djo }

Honour Guard returns to duty at National War Monument  { * & Stephen Harper seized the opportunity for photo ops in an effort to look ‘Leadership’-like. *  —djo— }

Egypt declares emergency after 30 Sinai troops killed  {  }

2 year old Ebola patient in Mali dies: health official   {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

Mandatory quarantine ordered for health workers returning to N.Y., N.J.  { }

& the special sub section today entitled: “Attack in Ottawa” is still in evidence.

 

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“Politically Correct Cookies?”

“Offbeat”

‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies in esixtence   {   }

Celebrated architect Frank Gehry flips the bird to Spanish media  {  }

Queen writes her first tweet to open tech exhibit   {  }

Snakes on the plains: 98 snakes, found in home, released to the wild   {  }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo: Outpouring of emotion for ‘Canada’s son’  {  }

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, off the air to deal with ‘personal issues’   {   }

Another Canadian jihadi slips through the cracks  {  }

Washington school shooting: 2 dead, including one gunman    {   }

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s killer approached from behind, fired twice   {   }

Ottawa shooting: National War Memorial ceremonial guards back on duty   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Where did Michael Zehaf-Bibeau get his gun?   { * Why does this matter? This headline sounds like somebody is trying to focus your attention on a complete non-issue, most likely to tighten controls on those who legally own firearms. Illegal guns can be found anywhere. There are even cases in which unethical cops will find an unregistered gun at one scene, hang onto it for years, and then plant it in someone’s possession when they want to frame somebody. —djo— }

Sun turns biggest sun spot in 24 years toward Earth   {   }

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was sked to leave Burnaby, B.C. mosque   {   }

-15 photo slide show- The week in pictures, Oct. 18-24   {   }

harper sux donkey dicks

This was Tweeted last week.

Our original plans for Wednesday were to talk about Tuesday night’s guests on Coast to Coast am [radio]  { Major Ed Dames, who brought the term ‘Scientific Remote Viewing’ into the awareness of millions by explaining what he did in his military and post military carreer- Tuesday night he told George Noory, and the world, that he believes our run as the dominant species on planet earth is over. He called the United States a successful experiment that actually showed the world what a free nation could be like, “But those days are over”. & He said, in a comment about puppet heads of state in Asia” “Yes there are [ puppet heads of state ] -and some of them are quite close to home.” —djo— }

 

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

 

-Blog- ‘Organic genderless gingerbread figures’ might be the most politically correct cookies ever  {  }

 

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Other:

2 dead, including lone gunman, after shooting at Washington high school  {   }

NYC hatchet attacker not tied to terror groups, police say   { * And, even in the U.S.A., which many see as the gun capital of the world, if a private citizen shot and killed a man attacking him, or his child, with a hatchet, the private citizen would be charged with excessive use of force. If you are five feet two and weigh 90 pounds- and some steroid-enhanced warrior who might be six feet ten and weigh three hundred pounds- all solid muscle- attacks you or your kids with an axe, you can protect yourself and your kids with an axe, but not a gun. *  —djo— }

Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, off the air to deal with ‘personal issues’   { ‘Q’ is a program developed and originating from CBC radio.  —djo— }

-Updated- Ottawa gunman was asked to leave B.C. mosque    {  }

Sun turns biggest sunspot in 24 years toward Earth   {   }

Ebola patient in Mali dies   {   }

Magnotta trial hears from computer forensics expert about video trail   { * The last headline I saw on this subject read: ‘Experts cannot tie murder video to computers’.  —dj0— }

J.K. Rowling promises Halloween treat for Harry Potter fans   {   }

Harper demands expedited review of police powers for terror suspects   {   }

-Exclusive- Councillor using city contractor to build cottage, rival alleges    {  }

Sitting, the ‘new smoking’ is killing us and costing the economy billions   { * So- should we be prepared for representatives of the Corporate Plutacracy -read that: ‘corporate based fascist government’- to begin arresting and executing people for sitting down too often? If you believe this is far-fetched, wait until you learn that somebody has copyrighted your dna and quietly had laws passed giving them the power to dictate what you can and can’t do about reproducing and ‘misusing’ the dna that they now ‘own’. And another thing: Even if ‘sitting is costing the economy billions’, how much do you think black ops budgets, and under-reported military spending are costing? More like trillions.*  —djo— *** And your governments have huge income streams that they hope you never find out about, because they do not need to tax you the way they do. Governments are fraudulently extorting money from you. Source: CAFR1.com  —jim w— * }

-Analysis- Should we stop intervening in the Middle East? Nahlah Ayed   {   }

Chinese government hackers allegedly attack Apple’s iCloud  { * One guy I met told me that the leaders in China were space-alien hybrids, “And not the good aliens, either.” -Which could be true in the poetic sense, if not literal? But, when you can’t believe anything our government tells us, and you can’t believe anything the corporate media tells us? Should we all stand in a big circle and play Kazoo music until they shut up and go home and leave us alone? *  —djo— }

-Feature- Condolences for Cpl. Cirillo and Warrant Officer Vincent   {  }

Canadian Consulate in Istanbul evacuated after suspicious powder found   {   }

-Photos- Partial solar eclipse: Your photos of the crescent Sun   {   }

-Recap- World Series:   { * WE are extremely late again today. So we’ll tell you. The Royals beat the Giants 3-2. Royals now have won 2 games and the Giants have won 1.  —djo—  }

"Secret Space Plane"

“Secret Space Plane”

U.S. Robotic space plane lands after secret 2-year journey around Earth   { * What we thought was a slip-up in which somebody might have admitted that there were several space craft around Mars when the comet did a fly-by, was amended by NASA to explain that 3 satellites are in orbit around Mars and they were told to hide behind the planet when the comet approached. *  —jim w— }

-Must Watch- CF-18 fighter jets head to Kuwait    { * Why would I want to watch that? Or the video of 100 snakes that were found in somebody’s house? *  —djo— }

-Must Watch- Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s final journey home    {   }

-Must Watch- Auroras leave Greenwood    { * No, the Aurora Borealis did not pack up and move out of town over some kind or dispute with cosmic corporate magnates trying to extort any kind of cosmic currency from them, transport planes flew out of ’14 Wing Greenwood’ on Friday night.  —djo—  }

===== There are no new “Editor’s Picks” today =====

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Glenn Greenwald in conversation about secrets, transparency and digital future  { * Now this is what I would call a “Must Watch” * —djo— }

Wednesday:-Editor’s Pick- Global deaths for communicable diseases compared   { * I wonder if they meant to say “-deaths FROM communicable diseases-” Are we on this planet to serve the bacteria? Are we dying for diseases? Ya think that might have been a Freudian sleep?  😉  —djo— }

Wednesday: -Editor’s Pick- Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   { * Heck yes, When The Angels of Light come here and show everybody what’s been going on, instead of just clearing things up with “life reviews” between lives –  Can you imagine what would happen if they stand there and say, “Well, you’ve got two choices here, you can give the country back to its true owners and pay the First Nations the full value of what you stole from them, or you can go to hell.—”  * —djo—  *** Instead of doing everything you can to turn this planet into hell? ***  —jim w— }

===== Greatest Hits this week? =====

-World- Exoskeleton enables paralyzed groom to walk down the aisle  {  }

-Canada- Six indigenous cookbooks to warm you up   { * & Hey! Nobody caught the miss-spelling of ‘indigenous’ yesterday- *  —djo— }

-Business- Apple’s iCloud believed attacked by Chinese government hackers   { * While the Canadian Prime Minister was busy kissing their butts? *   —djo— }

-Politics- Cyberbullying bill draws fire from diverse mix of critics   {  }

-Politics- Federal government still mum on how to spend surplus   {  }

-Community- ‘Sexy’ kids Halloween costumes ifnite fierce debate about parental responsibility   {  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

===== Below is taken directly from the CBC /news/ website =====

=== End of copied and pasted from New Brunswick box on cbc.ca/news/ page ===

{ -But- Re: ‘Police and intelligence agents need more power’ — “In their dreams, poopy face!”  —djo— }

 

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“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

imagineNA TIVE’s Shane Belcourt on directing, dance and #MMIW  {  }

Nunavut justice system ‘failing children and youth’: Inuit group  {  }

-Photos- Arviat youth use art workshops to discuss difficult topics  {  }

Tsilhqot’in chief hanged in 1864 exonerated by B.C. Premier Christy Clark  {  }

Yukon fashion designer set for Paris runway  {  }

Film tells story of Inuk man who died in RCMP custody  {  }

Manitoba dam protesters demand revenue sharing, hydro bill help  {  }

Residential school survivors in Nunavut confused about education credit   {  }

Top 10 indigenous films of all time   {  }

Who gets to be ‘Indian’: 6 reasons why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   {  }

Grandmothers play key role helping families in North Central   {  }

Closing arguments begin in case of fed underfunding aboriginal child services   {  }

=== Previous Articles: ===

5 top picks for the imagineNA TIVE film festival  {  }

Diabetes support, prevention urged for Eskasoni   {  }

New women’s shelters planned in Cree communities   {  }

Edmonton jury selection process to be reviewed   {  }

Methadone treatment needs review, First Nations leader says    { * & I remember when they used to call Methadone “Rockefeller’s dope” *  —djo— }

Music NB awards should include aboriginal category, exec says    {  }

Defence wants mistrial in Douglas Hales murder case   {  }

Shale gas protester admits assaulting RCMP officer in Rexton   {  }

-Special Report-‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents  {  }

-Audio-Wikwemikong group releases Anishinaabe language app   {  }

Winnipeg Indigenous Rock the Vote drums up encouragement  {  }

Move over Paleo: Six indeigenous cookbooks to warm you up    {  }

Manitoba Hydro evicted from northern dam station   {  }

6 things to know about N.W.T.’s infrastructure plans   {  }

Ouellette announces plan to make Winnipeg safer for Aboriginal women   {  }

University of Regina said the number of First Nations students is up by 50 per cent over the past 5 years  {  }

Food Banks Canada project to deliver fresh food to remote First Nations   {  }

Watchdog says B.C. government ignoring recommendations to help children   {  }

Healing garden planned to remember residential schools in St. Albert   {  }

 

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{ Almost 4:30 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again,  —And from “—jda—“ again this time —   ———djo——— }

Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Who’s Crossing Which Rubicon?:

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Thursday, 23 October, 2014  -( 46˚F / 11˚C –  & Very Grey & Dreary   @ 10:45 am near Ithaca )-  -( 50˚F / 10˚C –  & raining   @ 1:30 pm Closer to Halifax )-    { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from Jim d— }

—HOLD EVERYTHING—

 { Ottawa Under Attack }

Ottawa War Memorial

* – Cpl. Nathan Cirillo guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Memorial in Ottawa in a photo posted on Twitter Wednesday. Cirillo was shot and killed by a man who later attacked the Parliament buildings. (Twitter) – *

{  We had actual breaking news last evening.   —djo— }

{  & Today, After briefly conferring with our online staff – 😉 – I had to go get ‘big water’ for our cooler and a couple loaves of ‘day-old’ bread and stuff like that there.  Today’s noon radio broadcast from Halifax sounded a whole lot different from yesterday’s evening news:

– Two ex military types were on the air. One of them was a command level officer who was today’s go-to person. The first guy -not the general- said, -not word for word, I didn’t record this >>—-> Harper’s had us at war for the last 12 or 13 years and he acts surprised that somebody who might have ties with one of the countries we’ve been at war with might attack our soldiers? <—-<<  And I’m pretty sure it was the General who said, again I can’t remember this word for word:  >>—-> Security was lax at the Parliament buildings, not because of action or complaints from some Civil Libertarian types, but because the Harper Government cut back funds, got rid of the commissionaires who had been doing security duty and cut funds to what security operations we had left. – And I think the go-to General responded to someone’s concerns about loss of privacy and civil rights by saying that security measures should be kept at a safe distance from the doors of the Parliament buildings- not because that could be less intrusive, but because security personnel at the doors would not have enough time to stop a determined attacker who was armed.

– Today’s tone was a whole lot calmer and more sane than I expected. People from Atlantic Canada do not seem to be in love with the ‘Harper Conservatives’, and they do not appear to be ‘buying into’ the idea that ‘we should surrender what rights and liberties we have left’.  Even a cashier in a convenience store up here told me that she had noticed that everything felt a whole lot different and less crazy than it felt last night. One person said, “There are 35 million Canadians up here and two or three of them went nuts? I don’t feel any less safe and secure than I did last week.”

– & I heard one semi- off-the-wall suggestion, here we go, complete with pre-amble- “I remember an old Star Trek episode from the original series where Captain Kirk and the gang tried to convince one very peaceful race that they were in danger. In response, the ‘endangered’ society’s citizens just sort of half closed their eyes and made the weapons of anybody who held one impossible to hold, they like burned the hands of the people who thought they could use them. Don’t we have screening technology that could detect bullets and something like high tech heaters that could focus on those bullets? Show dummies with loaded guns in their pockets having their legs blown off  in a reinforced screening facility? Wouldn’t that convince would be attackers that their weapons would explode in their hands? Or their pockets? There’s gotta be a way something like that would work.-“

  – Um, luckily, this person was explaining his idea to somebody else and I didn’t need to respond that I would have to go think about that for a while before I let myself come up with an opinion I could endorse and/or live with.  —jim w— }

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 { We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

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

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

CPR at the War Memorial on Wednesday.

Tweeted from CBC News: “Canadian Muslims fear backlash.”

 { Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

 

Tweets

Interesting Juxtaposition: Jacques Poitras is a CBC reporter out of New Brunswick. “L-G” = Lieutenant Governor.

{  & This from ———jda———

– “Thursday, 23 October, 2014 – Ack! We live in a violent culture. Nobody under the age of responsibility planned it this way, at least not in this lifetime. – When the television programmes you plunk your kids down in front of are violent— When their sports are violent— When somebody out there has decided that your games and distractions should all be violent—- Why didn’t you see this coming? – Good, honest young men and women are being duped into taking up arms to support one lie against another. Embrace the love of life. Embrace the love of love. Embrace the preciousness of every life on this planet. Support each other. – To hell with the ideas that kill. To hell with philosophies that say it’s okay to kill for king and country. – We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless your government tells you to-” — We were not told, “Thou shalt not kill unless the controlling, obsessive men who took over and subverted your religions tell you to.” — Do not pray for vengeance. – Pray for guidance. Pray for protection from the lies that too many of our contemporaries allow to control their lives. – Pray we call come together and dismiss the governments and (small r) religions that allow darkness to smirk and laugh themselves silly because they’ve been pulling the strings and spitting out the words that convince you that you are working God’s Will when you believe you have the right to destroy the lives of any of God’s Children. – Get thee behind us, thou dupes of the dark side. – Unzip the uniforms and find there are Children of God inside. Burn down the deceptions and realize that any true Religion nurtures your body, mind, soul and spirit, and tells you that we are all one spirit. We are all children of the same divine intelligence. – Smash your delusions and realize we are all One. Before it’s too late. ———jda——— 

// Response from Cathi Harris: “Beautiful!”  —jim w— }

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

 

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Lead Articles:

"Police State?"

“Ottawa Shooting” -cbc- “Peace Tower out of focus – Police office – armed and wearing bullet-proof-vest with “Police” plainly visible on his in-focus back.” —jim w—

-New-Parliament returns to new ‘normal’ after gunman’s attack   { * – “MPs will be sitting in the House of Commons as usual today following yesterday’s deadly shooting in the capital, but security measures will likely be stepped up and the Hill will be closed to visitors.”  –  —djo—  }

-Analysis- We’ve known this day was coming, right? Brian Stewart    { * –  “-As Canadians, we’ve been lucky up to this point, Brian Stewart writes. We’ve been telling ourselves for some time now we could be the object of a terror attack. Now is the time to show our resilience.-”  * “But the tone east of Ottawa is a lot more calm than I expected-” Reports Jim W. – “People around here are not buying into mass hysteria. A lot more “Down-Easter’s” than I expected are blaming this on the Harper government and Harper’s style of government, micro-managing everybody in the conservative caucus, and, more importantly, micro-managing the truth- all aspects of the truth.” —djo— }

===== >>—-> Begin ‘Developing’ flash queue >>—->

Photo run with story about Ottawa shootings.

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the suspected gunman in Wednesday’s Ottawa shootings, had a criminal record in B.C. and Quebec. (Twitter) —Photo as run with CBC article on web site.

Thursday: 23 October, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:

Ottawa police say public servants can return to work today   { * Isn’t that magnanimous of them? *  —djo }

Parliament under tight surveillance after Ottawa shootings  { * (1) You better believe they were already under tight surveillance. (2) Now they have one hell of an excuse to abuse the authority they’re stealing more and more of every day. (3) I could find twenty conspiracy researchers in ten minutes who would agree that most ‘western governments’ are perfectly capable of putting almost anybody through ‘Manchurian Candidate’ type conditioning and activating them to do exactly what two Canadians did in two days this week. *  —djo— }

PM Harper says:  ‘Canada will never be intimidated’  { * But he keeps on trying to do just that, anyway? * —djo— }

Reservist killed in Ottawa wanted to be full-time soldier   {  }

PM Harper calls Ottawa shooter ‘ISIL-inspired terrorist’  { * And, who inspired Harper and exactly what school of terrorism does he subscribe to? – The “Keep them terrified and they will give you all the power you want” school?  —djo— }

Commons to sit but Parliament Hill to be closed to the public  {  }

Canadian Forces bases step up security after shootings  {  }

Brian Bowman elected Winnipeg’s new mayor  {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

How can homegrown attacks be stopped?  { * (1) Stop trying to control every aspect of the lives of the citizens of this country, of this planet. (2) Stop believing that anything gives the right to rule over anybody else.  (3) Stop believing that ‘Leadership’ is anything but a delusional concept mouthed by ice-holes who believe they should be able to push everybody else around. (4) Start treating everybody you see, anywhere you look, as if they just might be your Saviour in disguise.  (5) I could go on and add to this list all day, but you already know not to push any disempowered minorities to the edge of desperation, and you already know how to make people whose self-esteem has been butchered by bullies and authoritarians feel better about themselves. Nobody who has a stake in your welfare because they know that you would ‘give them the shirt off your back’ if you knew they needed it, will ever want to harm you.  —djo— }

-Video- Dramatic events caught on video as shooting unfolds in Ottawa   { * & this headline is about their coverage, not about the breaking news story? *  —djo—  }

-Updated- Commons sergeant-at-arms a hero for ‘selfless act’ in Ottawa shooting   {  }

& there’s a whole special sub section today entitled: “Attack in Ottawa”

 

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Coma faker

“British Fake-Coma Fraudster”

“Offbeat”

Man who faked coma caught on camera strolling around supermarket   { * But think about this: Does that justify turning spy cameras on everybody everywhere? *  }

Comedian  urges Washington Redskins to adopt ‘sunburned white person; as their logo  {  }

Breaking Bad dolls removed from Toys R Us website after mom’s petition   {  }

Jalapeno Mac N’ Cheese chip flavour wins Calgary man $50K   { *** Maybe this is only because nobody I know was ever able to find the “Poutine with Bacon” flavour anywhere? *** —jim w—  }

-Tuesday?- Spot a bear? Why you should never get out of your car   { *&  I still really want to make a joke about bears stealing your car if you’re stupid enough to get out when you see one. *  —djo— }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Parliament Hill attack: Live updates  {  }

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, shot dead in Ottawa, dreamed of becoming full-time soldier   {   }

Ottawa shooting:Kevin Vickers hailed as hero who took down attacker  {  And made sure nobody has the opportunity to question him? }

Ottawa shooting: A day of chaos leaves soldier, gunman dead   {   }

Ottawa shooting: How Parliament will carry on   {   }

Ottawa shooting: We’ve known this day was coming   { * Yeah, High Authoritarians have been planning it for years. At your expense. —jda—  }

Ottawa shooting: 15 minutes of terror in the Conservative caucus room   {   }

Ottawa attack: 5 questions about the shootings on Parliament Hill   {   }

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, slain Ottawa shooter, had criminal record in Quebec, B.C.   { * So you can probably bet some ice-hole will try to tell you we should permanently lock up anybody that ice-hole believes is a threat to his own prosperity, er- I mean security, um, I mean the ice-hole believes that somebody is a threat to public safety, I mean, he will try to convince you that people should be locked up and the keys thrown away. But they don’t tell you that it costs more to keep one, possibly non-violent, ‘offender’ in a maximum security prison for one year than it costs to send a rich guy’s kid to an Ivy League U.S. University – For 4 years, including dorm, books, tuition and bale bond insurance.  —djo—  }

harper sux donkey dicks

This was Tweeted last week.

Our original plans for Wednesday were to talk about Tuesday night’s guests on Coast to Coast am [radio]  { Major Ed Dames, who brought the term ‘Scientific Remote Viewing’ into the awareness of millions by explaining what he did in his military and post military carreer- Told George Noory and the world that he believes our run as the dominant species on planet earth is over. He called the United States a successful experiment that actually showed the world what a free nation could be like, “But those days are over”. & He said, in a comment about puppet heads of state in Asia” “Yes there are [ puppet heads of state ] -and some of them are quite close to home.” —djo— }

 

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

 

-Blog- Comedian urges Washington Redskins to adopt “sunburned white person” as their logo  { * Or at least come up with a team like the ‘Houston Honkies’ or the ‘Walla Walla White Trash Players’ – Hey, mad magazine fans out there? We really should organize a couple 43 Man Squamish skirmishes and show up with names like those I just suggested. Or how about the ‘Philadelphia Pink Skins?” —djo— }

 { Ack! it’s 3:45 pm EDT-  I thought I could get away with an abridged version of this today, guess not- hey?  — —djo— }

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Other:

-Yesterday- The blizzard of fear driving America’s Ebola response: Neil Macdonald  { * Holy Bull Chips! A voice of reason? Quick- Pinch me-  —djo—  }

-Analysis- Stephen Poloz awaits sunrise after Canada’s long industrial sunset   { * Wake up, Stephen, Both the Canadian and U.S. economies have been manipulated into the sewers by ice-holes disguised as ‘Banksters’ They wanted to disempower you and me and everybody in North America, and with the help of quite a few politicians, like Ronald Reagan, George Bush the first, George Bush the second, Barack Obama, and possibly every US presidential personality since they shot Kennedy for not going along with their plot- and hey, looks like your boy Stephen Harper is on their team too- and I don’t know how many Canadian Names to add to the list of ice-holes who sold your economy down the toilet, because I wasn’t paying enough attention to what was going on up there. –Until recently. *** Hey, we’re in the same boat. It’s sinking. start paddling like crazy or bail- will ya?***  —djo— }

-New- ISIS fight: Turkey says 200 Kurdish peshmergra fighters can cross to Syria   { * You might remember ISIS, everybody thought they were a big deal, until yesterday?  —djo— }

Winnipeg police make arrest after remains of 6 babies found in locker    { * I  think it might be more accurate to call the ‘locker’ a ‘storage facility’. *  —djo— }

Dinosaur with huge ‘T.Rex’ arms had hooved toes, fantail   {   }

Partial solar eclipse visible across most of Canada today   {  But it’s too cloudy in New York State. —djo— *** And raining like hell in New Brunswick. *** —jda— }

-Updated- ‘We are all shaken by it,’ Obama says of Ottawa shooting   { ***** And Jim W. was the only U.S. radio news person I know of who knew about and reported on the air – the fact that Canadian citizens were going all the way to New York City to march in Solidarity with Americans and show their support after 9/11/2001.  So heck, I hope my fellow ‘USAtians’ show a little empathy and compassion, or wait a couple days, it might happen here.  —djo— }

-Exclusive- Woman’s ‘private and sensitive’ psychiatric report sent to her employer   {   }

Global science group demands Ottawa restore ‘freedoms and funding’ to scientists   {  }

Ex-CSIS informant can’t imagine why security wasn’t upped at Parliament    { * Um, for the same reason the Vice President of the U.S.A. on September 11, 2001, had ordered all U.S. fighter jets on the east coast to stand down so they could perpetrate 9/11/2001 on the U.S. and by extension, to the whole freeping human race on planet Earth?  —djo— }

Chinese government hackers allegedly attack Apple’s iCloud  { * One guy I met told me that the leaders in China were space-alien hybrids, “And not the good aliens, either.” -Which could be true in the poetic sense, if not literal? But, when you can’t believe anything our government tells us, and you can’t believe anything the corporate media tells us? should we all stand in a big circle and play Kazoo music until they shut up and go home and leave us alone? *  —djo— }

Youngest ever Nobel-winner Malala Yousafzai to become honorary Canadian   { * But, if this puts her in a class with Stephen Harper and John Baird, — If I was her, I’d refuse that ‘honour’  —djo— }

-Recap- World Series: Royals draw even Belting Giants   { * I think the Giants prabably ‘Squeaked by’ the Royals, 7-1, in the first game and the Royals obviously ‘Clobbered’ the Giants, 7-2, in the second game. 3rd, 4th, and 5th games are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco. I betcha not many people will be wearing flowers in their hair.  —djo—   }

"Secret Space Plane"

“Secret Space Plane”

U.S. Robotic space plane lands after secret 2-year journey around Earth   { * And somebody on CBC teevee slipped today and said that there were a lot of space craft in the sky around Mars looking at the near fly-by of the comet, which was described as ‘the size of a small mountain’ but depicted as being almost round. Kind of like a maginified golf ball after somebody hit it with a sledge hammer from several different directs. *  —jim w— }

-Must Watch- CF-18 fighter jets head to Kuwait    { * Why would I want to watch that? Or the 100 snakes that were found in somebody’s house? *  —djo— }

-Must Watch- NHL supports Canada    { * Besides believing we should all carry hockey sticks to beat on anybody who looks like a terrorist? The NHL ‘supported Canada’ by singing ‘O Canada’ at their Pittsburg Penguins- Philadelphia Flyers game. Um, don’t forget that the NHL stole the game from Canada— 😉  —djo—  }

===== There are no “Editor’s Picks” today =====

Yesterday: -Editor’s Pick- Glenn Greenwald in conversation about secrets, transparency and digital future  { * Now this is what I would call a “Must Watch” * —djo— }

Yesterday:-Editor’s Pick- Global deaths for communicable diseases compared   { * I wonder if they meant to say “-deaths FROM communicable diseases-” Are we on this planet to serve the bacteria? Are we dying for diseases? Ya think that might have been a Freudian sleep?  😉  —djo— }

Yesterday: -Editor’s Pick- Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   { * Heck yes, When The Angels of Light come here and show everybody what’s been going on, instead of just clearing things up with “life reviews” between lives –  Can you imagine what would happen if they stand there and say, “Well, you’ve got two choices here, you can give the country back to its true owners and pay the First Nations the full value of what you stole from them, or you can go to hell.—”  * —djo—  *** Instead of doing everything you can to turn this planet into hell? ***  —jim w— }

===== Left-overs worth leaving there? =====

-World- Exoskeleton enables paralyzed groom to walk down the aisle  {  }

-Canada- Six indigenous cookbooks to warm you up   { * & Hey! Nobody caught the miss-spelling of ‘indigenous’ yesterday- *  —djo— }

-Business- Stocks power higher for a 4th day in Toronto, New York   {  }

-Business- Apple’s iCloud believed attacked by Chinese government hackers   { * While the Canadian Prime Minister was busy kissing their butts? *   —djo— }

-Politics- Cyberbullying bill draws fire from diverse mix of critics   {  }

-Politics- Federal government still mum on how to spend surplus   {  }

-Community- ‘Sexy’ kids Halloween costumes ifnite fierce debate about parental responsibility   {  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

===== Below is taken directly from the CBC /news/ website =====

 

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Ottawa shooting: Miramichi ‘very proud’ of Kevin Vickers  { *** One caller on CBC radio this noon time responded to Kevin Vickers being called a hero by saying she wondered if he felt like a hero- taking another human being’s life rarely makes anyone feel like they did something good. *** —jim w— }

Tidal Bore sculpture unveiled in Moncton  { *Not that Moncton has boring tides- This granite sculpture looks like the Bay of Fundy tides that surfers sometimes hitch a ride on.   —djo— }

Rexton shale gas protests remembered one year later   {  * I talked to a First Nations man who believes that elemental beings set fire to police cars. Hey, if leprechauns and ‘others’ from that world are on our side, we should encourage them. Thank them and honour them for fighting for us. *  —jim w— ***Update, after I wrote this on Saturday, I fell asleep and had a dream encounter with a ‘being’ about three feet tall & dressed all in black, looking like a leprechaun ninja- scared the hell out of me- 😉 ***  —jim—  }

Residential electricity customers underpaying, NB power says  {* All power companies are way over charging- Jim W says. *  —jim w—  *** Update*** Today, in the news somebody said, “It won’t be long before they raise the rates-” Stick around, see how fast Utility company managers can run away when enough people find out how they buried technology that could have us all using renewable energy that the sun, the wind, the rain, running water, and the tides could give us for free- and become really really angry about being lied to and ripped off. *  —djo—  }

For the birds: NCC counting species in northern N.B.  {  }

 

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seattle totem

“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

Residential school survivors in Nunavut confused about education credit   {  }

5 top picks for the imagineNA TIVE film festival  {  }

Diabetes support, prevention urged for Eskasoni   {  }

New women’s shelters planned in Cree communities   {  }

Edmonton jury selection process to be reviewed   {  }

Grandmothers play key role helping families in North Central   {  }

Methadone treatment needs review, First Nations leader says    { * & I remember when they used to call Methadone “Rockefeller’s dope” *  —djo— }

Music NB awards should include aboriginal category, exec says    {  }

Defence wants mistrial in Douglas Hales murder case   {  }

Shale gas protester admits assaulting RCMP officer in Rexton   {  }

-Special Report-‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents  {  }

-Audio-Wikwemikong group releases Anishinaabe language app   {  }

Winnipeg Indigenous Rock the Vote drums up encouragement  {  }

Top 10 indigenous films of all time   {  }

===== Older stuff: =====

Move over Paleo: Six indeigenous cookbooks to warm you up    {  }

Manitoba Hydro evicted from northern dam station   {  }

6 things to know about N.W.T.’s infrastructure plans   {  }

Who gets to be ‘Indian’: 6 reasons why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   {  }

Ouellette announces plan to make Winnipeg safer for Aboriginal women   {  }

University of Regina said the number of First Nations students is up by 50 per cent over the past 5 years  {  }

Food Banks Canada project to deliver fresh food to remote First Nations   {  }

Closing arguments begin in case of underfunding aboriginal child services   {  }

Watchdog says B.C. government ignoring recommendations to help children   {  }

Healing garden planned to remember residential schools in St. Albert   {  }

 

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{ Almost 4:30 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again,  —And from “—jda—“ again this time —   ———djo——— }

 

Wednesday, 22 October, 2014 – CBC News Headlines:

{ Copied & Pasted from Radio Free Earth News  — ———jim w——— }

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Wednesday, 22 October, 2014  -( 33˚F / 0˚C –  & Very cloudy  @ Noon near Ithaca )-  { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from Jim d— }

—HOLD EVERYTHING—

 { Ottawa Under Attack }

Ottawa War Memorial

* – Cpl. Nathan Cirillo guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Memorial in Ottawa in a photo posted on Twitter Wednesday. Cirillo was shot and killed by a man who later attacked the Parliament buildings. (Twitter) – *

{  We have actual breaking news this evening.   —djo— }

{ We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }
{ & 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.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.  ———djo——— }

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 Other Sources:

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

 

Ottawa, 22 October, 2014

“Doug — Cathi was sick all day – I guess you are still having computer problems – We had to go out and get Dog Food, & when we did, CBC Radio One was feeding us very cryptic interviews with witnesses & it took them twenty minutes to tell us what they were talking about out.” —Jim W—

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Lead Articles:

People With Uniforms and Guns.

“Chaos In Ottawa” We promised ourselves never to cave in to any mass corporate media frenzie, but here we are” —djo—

-6 pm Atlantic Time- -Updated- Canadian solider killed in Ottawa ID’d as Nathan Cirillo, reservist from Hamilton [Ontario]   { * CBC News confirmed the Ottawa shooting victim is Nathan Cirillo, 24, a reservist serving in Hamilton from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment * Our top photo is supposed to show him at his post. I couldn’t find out which soldier in the photo is the reported victim.   —djo—  }

Soldier dies after Parliament Hill Attack. Gunman also shot dead.    { * –  “In brazen shootings in Ottawa today, an armed attacker shot and killed a Canadian Forces member at the National War Memorial before heading to Parliament’s Centre Block, where he was shot dead. Police and military officials said at an afternoon press conference the incident is not over and asked for vigilance.” – * —djo— *** Television news here showed a video loop of the alleged attacker calmly getting into his vehicle and closing the door while Corporal Cirillo was being given emergency medical attention at the memorial.*** My initial gut reaction was, ‘The gunman was a targetted individual – Who is behind this and why?’  —jda— }

===== >>—-> Begin ‘Developing’ flash queue >>—->

Photo run with story about Ottawa shootings.

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the suspected gunman in Wednesday’s Ottawa shootings, had a criminal record in B.C. and Quebec. (Twitter) —Photo as run with CBC article on web site.

Soldier shot dead in Ottawa was Cpl. Nathan Cirillo  {  }

U.S. media report claims gunman is Michael Zehaf-Bibeau   { * & Of course, they show a photo of somebody wearing what looks like an Arab type face scarf. & A suspect with a French name should push buttons in the Canadian psyche- where they still remember separatist bombings in Montreal and Pierre Trudeau instituting the War Measures Act. *  —djo— }

1 soldier, 1 male suspectdead in Ottawa shootings: RCMP   {  }

Hospital says 3 treated for injuries from Ottawa shootings   {  }

Canadian Major General says bases are ‘taking precautions’  {  }

Winnipeg woman charged after 6 dead babies found in locker   {  }

===== >>—->  End of Flashing headlines <—-<<

-Video- Dramatic events caught on video as shooting unfolds in Ottawa   { * & this headline is about their coverage, not about the breaking news story? *  —djo—  }

-Updated- Commons sergeant-at-arms a hero for ‘selfless act’ in Ottawa shooting   {  }

 

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Schnarr

“Sunburned White Person”

“Offbeat”

Comedian urges Washington Redskins to adopt ‘sunburned white person’ as their logo   {  }

Breaking Bad dolls removed from Toys R Us website after mom’s petition   { * Um, what do you suppose a store would look like if the store’s manager removed anything that somebody found offensive? *   —djo— *** & Hey, Doug- I’ve known some pretty offensive store managers— ***  —jim w — }

Former crime stoppers car stolen, Regina police say   {  }

Jalapeno Mac N’ Cheese chip flavour wins Calgary man $50K   { *** Maybe this is only because nobody I know was able to find the “Poutine with Bacon” flavour anywhere? *** —jim w—  }

-Yesterday- Spot a bear? Why you should never get out of your car   { * I really want to make a joke about bears stealing you car if you’re stupid enough to get out when you see one. *  —djo— }

 

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“Most Viewed”

Ottawa shooting: Cpl Nathan Cirillo dies of wounds, gunman also shot dead  {  }

Ottawa shooting: Live updates   {   }

Ottawa shooting:Kevin Vickers hailed as hero who took down attacker  {  And made sure nobody has the opportunity to question him? }

Ottawa shooting: Nathan Cirillo, reservist from Hamilton, killed in attack   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Dramatic events caught on video   {   }

Ottawa shooting draws reaction from White House, world leaders   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Transportation in and out of the capital   {   }

Ottawa shooting: B.C. MLAs warned of possible security threat   {   }

Winnipeg U-Haul locker contained 6 dead babies   {   }

Ottawa shooting: Security measures heightened across Canada   {   }

harper sux donkey dicks

This was Tweeted last week.

Our original plans today were to talk about last night’s guests on Coast to Coast am [radio]  { Major Ed Dames, who brought the term ‘Scientific Remote Viewing’ into the awareness of millions by explaining what he did in his military and post military carreer- Told George Noory and the world that he believes our run as the dominant species on planet earth is over. He called the United States a successful experiment that actually showed the world what a free nation could be like, “But those days are over”. & He said, in a comment about puppet heads of state in Asia” “Yes there are [ puppet heads of state ] -and some of them are quite close to home.” —djo— }

 

Ebola CartoonBeer, burgers and cigarettes kill way more than Ebola.

“Yeah- It’s like the flu kills more people every year than the ‘pandemics’ the fear mongers are trying to terrorize us with-” —djo— // seconded by ———jim w——

Could Ebola rank among the deadliest commincable diseases?  { * Could this ‘Ebola Crisis’ rank among the most contrived bits of fear-mongering ever? *  —djo— }

-6 photo slide show- Swedish sub hunt likened to Cold War-era   { So, -if you’re old enough to remember when- do you feel safer now than you did during the cold war?  }

-Blog- Comedian urges Washington Redskins to adopt “sunburned white person” as their logo  { * Or at least come up with a team like the ‘Houston Honkies’ or the ‘Walla Walla White Trash Players’ – Hey, mad magazine fans out there? We really should organize a couple 43 Man Squamish skirmishes and show up with names like those I just suggested. Or how about the ‘Philadelphia Pink Skins?” —djo— }

 { Ack! it’s 9:45 pm EDT-  I should probably quit while I’m ahead, but here I go, continuing — —djo— }

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Other:

===== Everything in this category is from yesterday:  If we stop and go through everything in our “Other” Category, this will never get finished. —djo— =====

-Analysis- The blizzard of fear driving America’s Ebola response: Neil Macdonald  { * Holy Bull Chips! A voice of reason? Quick- Pinch me-  —djo—  }

McDonald’s sales slide, Coke flat as consumer tastes shift   { * Yup, we did wake up in a parallel universe. But what I want to know is? If we find out way back to the one we started out in, how would we know? I mean, it’s not like somebody puts markers on the clouds sailing by saying “Earth, Parallel #-97489763551-b” —Help—  —djo— }

Home mortgage risk should be shared by banks, CMHC head says   { * Um, “CMHC” Canadian Mortgage Hijackers’ Club? — Probably not. In the article they call it the “Canada Housing and Mortgage Corp.”  But shouldn’t that be the CHMC?  Let’s aske Thomas Jefferson, Hey Tom, what do you think of this?  “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” <—-<< That’s a direct quote, you can look it up.  The world economic mess we’re in is being manipulated by banks. The stuff you think is money, isn’t. Anybody remember Douglas Adams? Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy? people on earth really get obsessive about green pieces of paper. Of course, Canadian money comes in several different colours. But- Banksters fraudulently manuever everybody into debt, then manipulate the value of their worthless bits of paper and try to convince you that you should sell your soul to the debt-holder >>—-> Them! HOWEVER— Since they fraudulently manuevered you into this situation, you don’t owe them one copper penny. —> Looking forward to seeing all them cheatin, lyin, ice-holes get what they deserve — When a critical mass of people like you out there wake up and scream, “What the fupp?”  — & Half past human dot com says it’s going to come to: “It’s them or us!” And there’s a whole lot more of ‘us’ than ‘them’.  —djo— }

Michael Sam, NFL’s first openly gay player, cut by Cowboys    { * I kind of wish they’d said, “Let go-” by Cowboys, instead of ‘cut’ Anybody remember hearing Loreena Bobbit on tape? *  —djo— }

-Exclusive- Woman’s ‘private and sensitive’ psychiatric report sent to her employer   {   }

Global science group demands Ottawa restore ‘freedoms and funding’ to scientists   {  }

Luka Magnotta sent email about urge to kill, U.K. journalist says    {  }

Chinese government hackers allegedly attack Apple’s iCloud  { * One guy I met told me that the leaders in China were space-alien hybrids, “And not the good aliens, either.” -Which could be true in the poetic sense, if not literal? But, when you can’t believe anything our government tells us, and you can’t believe anything the corporate media tells us? should we all stand in a big circle and play Kazoo music until they shut up and go home and leave us alone? *  —djo— }

Youngest ever Nobel-winner Malala Yousafzai to become honorary Canadian   { * But, if this puts her in a class with Stephen Harper and John Baird, — If I was her, I’d refuse that ‘honour’  —djo— }

Beijing air pollution forces marathon runners to wear masks   {  }

"Secret Space Plane"

“Secret Space Plane”

U.S. Robotic space plane lands after secret 2-year journey around Earth   { * And somebody on CBC teevee slipped today and said that there were a lot of space craft in the sky around Mars looking at the near fly-by of the comet, which was described as ‘the size of a small mountain’ but depicted as being almost round. Kind of like a maginified golf ball after somebody hit it with a sledge hammer from several different directs. *  —jim w— }

-Must Watch- More than 100 snakes found in house   {  }

-Must Watch- CF-18 fighter jets head to Kuwait    { * Why would I want to watch that? Or the 100 snakes that were found in somebody’s house? *  —djo— }

-Must Watch- Underwater pumpkin carving    {  }

-Editor’s Pick- Glenn Greenwalk in conversation about secrets, transparency and digital future  { * Now this is what I would call a “Must Watch” * —djo— }

-Editor’s Pick- Global deaths for communicable diseases compared   { * I wonder if they meant to say “-deaths FROM communicable diseases-” Are we on this planet to serve the bacteria? Are we dying for diseases? Ya think that might have been a Freudian sleep?  😉  —djo— }

-Editor’s Pick- Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   { * Heck yes, When The Angels of Light come here and show everybody what’s been going on, instead of just clearing things up with “life reviews” between lives –  Can you imagine what would happen if they stand there and say, “Well, you’ve got two choices here, you can give the country back to its true owners and pay the First Nations the full value of what you stole from them, or you can go to hell.—”  * —djo—  *** Instead of doing everything you can to turn this planet into hell? ***  —jim w— }

-World- Exoskeleton enables paralyzed groom to walk down the aisle  {  }

-Canada- Six indigenous cookbooks to warm you up   { * & Hey! Nobody caught the miss-spelling of ‘indigenous’ yesterday- *  —djo— }

-Business- Stocks power higher for a 4th day in Toronto, New York   {  }

-Business- Apple’s iCloud believed attacked by Chinese government hackers   { * While the Canadian Prime Minister was busy kissing their butts? *   —djo— }

-Politics- Cyberbullying bill draws fire from diverse mix of critics   {  }

-Politics- Federal government still mum on how to spend surplus   {  }

-Community- ‘Sexy’ kids Halloween costumes ifnite fierce debate about parental responsibility   {  }

 

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“Local / New Bruswick”

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Tidal Bore sculpture unveiled in Moncton  { *Not that Moncton has boring tides- This granite sculpture looks like the Bay of Fundy tides that surfers sometimes hitch a ride on.   —djo— }

Rexton shale gas protests remembered one year later   {  * I talked to a First Nations man who believes that elemental beings set fire to police cars. Hey, if leprechauns and ‘others’ from that world are on our side, we should encourage them. Thank them and honour them for fighting for us. *  —jim w— ***Update, after I wrote this on Saturday, I fell asleep and had a dream encounter with a ‘being’ about three feet tall & dressed all in black, looking like a leprechaun ninja- scared the hell out of me- 😉 ***  —jim—  }

Residential electricity customers underpaying, NB power says  {* All power companies are way over charging- Jim W says. *  —jim w—  *** Update*** Today, in the news somebody said, “It won’t be long before they raise the rates-” Stick around, see how fast Utility company managers can run away when enough people find out how they buried technology that could have us all using renewable energy that the sun, the wind, the rain, running water, and the tides could give us for free- and become really really angry about being lied to and ripped off. *  —djo—  }

For the birds: NCC counting species in northern N.B.  {  }

 

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“Seattle Totem”

“First Nations”

-New- Methadone treatment needs review, First Nations leader says    { * & I remember when they used to call Methadone “Rockefeller’s dope” *  —djo— }

Music NB awards should include aboriginal category, exec says    {  }

Defence wants mistrial in Douglas Hales murder case   {  }

Shale gas protester admits assaulting RCMP officer in Rexton   {  }

-Special Report-‘Canada’s Worst Neighbourhood’ needs more attention: community leaders, residents  {  }

-Audio-Wikwemikong group releases Anishinaabe language app   {  }

Winnipeg Indigenous Rock the Vote drums up encouragement  {  }

Top 10 indigenous films of all time   {  }

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Move over Paleo: Six indeigenous cookbooks to warm you up    {  }

Manitoba Hydro evicted from northern dam station   {  }

6 things to know about N.W.T.’s infrastructure plans   {  }

Who gets to be ‘Indian’: 6 reasons why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters   {  }

Ouellette announces plan to make Winnipeg safer for Aboriginal women   {  }

University of Regina said the number of First Nations students is up by 50 per cent over the past 5 years  {  }

Food Banks Canada project to deliver fresh food to remote First Nations   {  }

Closing arguments begin in case of underfunding aboriginal child services   {  }

Watchdog says B.C. government ignoring recommendations to help children   {  }

Healing garden planned to remember residential schools in St. Albert   {  }

 

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{ Almost 11:00 pm EDT —Ready to Rock and Roll— & Thankful for help from Jim W again,  —And from “—jda—“ this time —   ———djo——— }