Sunday, 17 August, 2014.  -( 66°F / 19°C & cloudy @ 11:30 am near Ithaca, NY, USA )-

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

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“Lead Stories”

7 protesters arrested for breaking Ferguson Curfew   {  }

Head of Atlantic Charters ID’d as pilot killed in NB crash  { Klaus Sonnenberg was in an air ambulance that crashed very close to the end of a runway on Grand Manan Island off the coast of the southern New Brunswick mainland. }

Marc Emery, ‘Prince of Pot’, returns to Vancouver   {  }

Fears of new infections as Ebola clinic looted in Liberia  {  }

Ukraine says rebels shoot down fighter jet over Luhansk  { It’s a Sunday, I wrote that exactly as I saw it. Another link to the same story is more easily understood }

Justin Trudeau’s aboriginal candidate caught in crossfire   { The National Chief for for the Assembly of First Nations, Ghislain Picard, said in a letter that it’s up to the Assembly of First Nations whether they to keep Jody Wilson-Raybould on their payroll while she campaigns for the Liberal Party. }

Scotland’s pro- and anti-independence camps weigh the lessons of Quebec   {  }

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“Offbeat”

Justin Bieber pays for monkey business   { He paid a $10K fine for trying to bring his monkey into Germany }

English Premier League season begins, chaos ensues   { This is soccer, a fan invaded the playing field at one ‘match’, disrupting a free kick. If you have no idea what I just said, you’re probably ‘USAtian’ and you’re not alone. }

-and a couple repeat stories from yesterday were here-

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“Most viewed”

Canada’s doctor’s decline to join anti-marijuana campaign   {  }

Amish girls sexually abused in N.Y. abduction : prosecutor   { A link on the side under “More Headlines” inserted the word ‘allegedly’ ahead of ‘sexually’.  }

Michael Brown shooting: Police deploy tear gas to impose curfew   {  }

Gunshots fired on McCarthy Road in south Ottawa   {  }

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“Other”

Liberian slum residents go on shooting spree at Ebola clinic   {  }

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam   {  }

Mount Polley mine: sediment near spill may harm fish   { This is an on-going story about the collapse of a levee around a huge tailings pond.  }

Diver’s ‘Very Significant’ find leads to charges in Alberta family slaying   { This is the case in which a 38-year old has been charged with killing his parents and sister. He says he had nothing to do with it and his sister is still missing. }

Montreal pride parade revellers ready to show their true colours  { * I had to check, yes it is a ‘Gay Pride’ event, not a ‘Montreal Pride’ city-praising event. }

Orange is the new black actress nabs Emmy award   { I bet she won the award, & did not perform a snatch and run robbery in front of zillions of people. }

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Swimmers Crossing Northumberland Strait for Brigadoon   {  }

N.B. fracking protest raised fears of copycat rallies   { Federal officials paid close attention to an RCMP raid on First Nations protest against shale-gas exploration in New Brunswick, “at one point raising concerns it could spawn another wountrywide movement like ‘Idle No More'” }

Pre-shale gas water quality to be studied   { This may not be as positive a development as it sounds- A team from the Canada Rivers Institue at the University of New Brunswick are set to study water conditions in areas where shale gas development is ‘likely to take place’. }

Cybercriminals capitalize on oversharing on social media   {  }

Moncton offers free FIFA transportation after complaints   {  }

Port Saint John gets ‘smart’ weather bouy   { *And Last night on Coast to Coast am, John Gray of ‘Men are from Mars-” fame reported that ‘Smart Meters’ are constantly sending microwave signals back and forth to and from Electric Utilities, -and can receive instructions to throttle down or cut off electricity to any ‘smart appliances’ or cut off power to the whole house, -a practice that killed elderly house bound citizens in Texas cities when a power company remotely turned off air conditioners during a heat wave- He said that more and more people are developing problems, like an inability to sleep and hyper sensitivity to the Electro Magnetic Field Emissions because of these devices. “Smart” = “Not good” when referring to meters, appliances, and too many other technological ‘advances’ }

Arson suspected in fire at Fredericton home   {  }

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{ It’s a Sunday – Fewer stories than usual, and it only took me1 hour instead of 4 or 5. I had a second, older computer beside me with the CBC pages displayed in an “OmniWeb” browser.  I didn’t know there was such a browser until Jim sent me a link when I complained about the dearth of browser availabilty with features I liked. – 12:39 pm EDT    ———djo——— }

Saturday, 16 August, 2014.  -( 49°F / 9°C & clear @ 7:30 am near Ithaca, NY, USA )-

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

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“Lead Stories”

Obama’s ‘cautious’ response to Michael Brown death, Ferguson under scrutiny   {  }

Texas Governor Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power   { The governor tried to bully a prosecutor into quitting. }

Protestors storm store police say Michael Brown robbed   { I heard one person in a news clip say that a person in a video of someone stealing cigars and intimidating the store clerk before walking out with a handful of stolen cigars never was proven to be Michael Brown. }

Alberta man charged in deaths of parents, sister   {  }

‘Exclusive’- CBSA immigration arrests during spot checks stir controversy   { CBSA = Canada Border Services Agency. One person who wasn’t happy about police doing a ‘spot check’ demanding identity papers from ‘suspicious looking’ -minority- people and arresting suspected illegally working ‘foreigners’ worried that if the police get away with this they might escalate and demand ever more intrusive documentation from random people in random spots, ‘just because they can’. A First Nations young woman claims she’s been stopped and interrogated under suspicion that she might be a prostitute because she was walking alone while looking like a First Nations woman. “What are they going to do? Arrest unemployed women or demand proof of employment before they’ll allow anyone to walk anywhere because they think she just might be a prostitute and didn’t offer them freebies?” }

-New- Couple charged with kidnapping Amish sisters intended harm: police  { A couple in northern New York were arrested and charged with intending to physically harm or sexually abuse two Amish sisters after abducting them from a roadside farm stand (7:11 am EDT) }

‘Updated – Airstrikes on militants at Iraq dam after ISIS ‘massacre’ kills 80   { I heard that Yazidis said that ISIS killed more like 100 and kidnapped women and children, haven’t confirmed that yet. }

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“Offbeat”

Steve McQueen Ferrari auctioned off by Ontario’s RM Auctions   {  }

Sea otter caught on camera in rare sighting in B.C.’s Georgia Strait   {  }

Son surprises mom with dream car, the internet approves   {  }

Downtown Abbey’s anachronistic water bottle becomes internet sensation   {  }

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“Most Viewed”

Internet outages, slowness spike expected with ‘512K’   {   ‘512,000 internet destinations’ = a milestone- Here- in their words, “When the number of destinations on the internet surpasses 512,000, users will experience overall internet slowness if they rely on an internet service provider that uses older, affected routers.”  An alternate headline points to the same story:  “Internet outages spike as network gets too big for some routers” *Sounds like somebody’s trying to open the argument that internet providers should be allowed to fleece their customers or throttle their services down to a crawl on anyone who can’t afford top dollar for services that are not driving any providers to the poor house  }

Newfoundland’s Stephanie Branton is Playboy’s Miss September   { -Um- When a well respected news service publishes a story like this I wonder if they’re either remarkably open minded and believe that we should all celebrate a good looking young woman posing naked for Playboy Magazine, or was this a really slow news day in Newfoundland? }

New- Lac-Mégantic report to be retiring TSB chair’s final act   { Lac-Mégantic was the site of the horrendous explosion and fire when a rail road train, left unattended -due to laws regarding the length of time engineers could work without rest (and the railroad not willing to pay a second shift to ride along, rested, and take over when the first shift needed a break-) had its brakes fail and rolled down hill into a small town where it exploded and burned and killed 47 people last year. }

Girl Power: Vancouver, U.S. girls representing at Little League World Series   {  }

Alien probe: Report details 25 years of UFO sightings in Canada   { Quick, somebody call the crew at Coast to Coast am, does this look like a major media outlet is admitting that there might be ET’s flying around, waiting for an invitation to land and say hello? }

CP Rail ‘Bullying’ Vancouver by ripping up community gardens, mayor says   { *Yup, I think I called it bullying, yesterday.* }

‘Totally irresponsible’ of Canada Post to request doctor’s note for home delivery: CMA   {  CMA = Canadian Medical Association. They’re claiming that sending old and infirm citizens to doctors’ offices for notes to excuse them from walking past the mail boxes they’ve been getting their mail at all their lives in favor of cluster boxes like the ones in the photo – that may be at the end of a long road -or who knows how far away- will expose those aged and infirm, medically compromised people, to needless expense and probably expose them to  contagious germs from sick people in those doctors’ waiting rooms.    *My opinion coming up*: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to be everything that G.W. Bush tried to be. Harper’s a Conservative who wants to un-fund everything and funnel all government money into his and other corrupt/greedy pockets. I’ve said way too often here that federal, state, (provincial) & local governments have been lying since the 1940’s about where their money comes from, how much of it they have and where it goes. More than two thirds of local, state/provincial, and federal governments’ money comes in through ‘other than tax monies’- But they keep on claiming that the only money they get is through taxes. Go read through CAFR1.com  <— Link. “Government’s True Wealth Exposed”   They could stop collecting taxes now and provide more and better services than they do. “Austerity Programs” are pure and utter B.S. I can’t wait to see what happens when we hit that magic level when enough people cry out to force the puppets we’ve ‘elected’ to office to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  }

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“Other”

Goldfish dumped by B.C. pet owners become invasive species   { Oh no- I can see it now, “Invasion of the Gold Fish From Hell” rated PG, soon to be at a theatre near you. }

Ebola and the economics of fear: Don Pittis   { *So, whattaya think? Do you suppose there are vapid stories about Ebola every night on t.v. ,and everywhere else, because big Pharma is making money on something here? Or maybe planning on making big money on some magic new cure that people don’t need, but might be able to be frightened into believing they just might need?}

TFSA penalties, StatsCan’s big mstake, and Jibo’s debut: BUSINESS WEEK WRAP   { TFSA = Tax Free Savings Account. People get penalized when they withdraw money from one of those before retiring. Statistics Canada reported that only 200 new jobs were added to the economy last July, then withdrew that number and came back saying there were actually 42,000 new jobs – most of them part time- And I don’t think we should trust these numbers anyway, Nobody’s given out real unemployment numbers in as long as I can remember- it’s b.s. again. If they say 7% unemployment- the real numbers are probably more like 24% because they don’t count people who have given up or can’t collect unemployment comp because they’ve been unemployed too long. }

Toronto-based Figure-1 wants ‘Instagram for doctors’ to go global   { Figure -1 is a Social photo sharing app that doctors, medical students, and other medical professionals use to share photos and x-rays etc. whether to get second opinions or help with diagnoses-  }

Oilsands investments at risk from low crude prices, report finds   { Oilsands investments are at risk because Oil companies are dishonest manipulative ice-holes who have squashed and buried any competing technological advances that could show people that we don’t need their stinkin fuel. And they are totally devastating the ‘oilsands’ region and killing the whole eco-system out there. }

Watch a swarm of 1,024 robots move together to form shapes    { They’ve taught nanobots to swarm, betcha this comes back to bite them. }

Warcraft to memorialize Robin Williams in game   {  }

HBO’s Game of Thrones comes to Vancouver   { This is the last stop on the Exhibits’ World Tour- it ends on or before September 1st. You too can sit on the iron throne- or gawk at dresses worn by characters in what is becoming my favorite television experience in the last couple years-  Can’t wait for the return of “Heroes” with a reportedly whole new cast of characters- Next year? If we survive this one? }

Dartmouth art gallery celebrates The Simpsons   { This Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.  }

Amazon ‘stomping on its own feet’ in Disney, Hachette e-commerce spats   { More like shooting themselves in the foot? Yes, Stephen King and 900 other authors are angry with Amazon’s heavy handed dealings with publishers to force prices down so they can undersell other ‘outlets’. Should I put up a “Boycott Amazon” button? }

The Beatles’ landmark White Album turned into art installation    {  }

Bird flu virus scientist stayed mum for a month on accident, CDC probe finds   {  }

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

More Power outages on the way, says NB Power   { Jesse Ventura lives ‘off the grid’ in Mexico. He told us in an interview last week or the week before that he had no outages at all, no down time with his off the grid system, then had to come to Minnesota for some legal issues and suffered several outages in his ‘high end’ neighborhood while there. This smells like a conspiracy, doesn’t it?  }

First Nation chiefs ask court to block forestry agreements   { The Conservative Premier of New Brunswick is spouting ‘we need the jobs’ and that line of b.s. and signing over rights to big corporations to cut down previously protected areas of ‘Crown’ forests. Lackeys say they replant, opponents say they have killed off the diversity and important wild life species never come back. }

NB Liquor reverses new microbrewery rules   {  }

Windsor Energy lawsuit against N.B. government linked to election   { The president of Calgary based Windsor Energy said that the timing of this $105 Million lawsuit was absolutely political to get even with a Member of the Legislature’s claim that Windsor Energy violated the law when it did seismic testing in 2011 in New Brunswick. Windsor Energy wants to point the finger at politicians and scream “They’re incompetent!” * I saw no mention of Frakking in this story, but the more I hear about frakking the more dangerous I believe that practice is, and if CEOs of Energy companies are going to use heavy handed tactics to try to blackmail governments into allowing them to FRAK at will, I think we need to take these energy companies down, with extreme prejudice. (my opinion)  }

“Latest Newfoundland & Labrador News Headlines”

My Guitar: Chris Kirby’s connection to the blues   {  }

Gone Again looks at women and the culture of working away   {  }

Lewis Kearney overwhelmed by food donations from ‘angels on earth’   {  }

Labrador family struggles, as brother awaits permanent housing   {  }

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{  Ack! it’s 10:42 am- I was distracted several times, but this is taking a lot more time than it used to- Is the news that much more interesting? Am I becoming more diligent? Is my mind turning to mush and my brain evaporating out through me ears? Tune in tomorrow, folks, and see if there’s a notice here that men in white coats came and carried me away in a straight jacket- or something equally boring- ———djo——— }

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

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“Lead Stories”

How a police tactical shift can calm tensions after Missouri protests   { There’s a photo of an African-American police officer in a uniform with captain’s bars on his shoulder hugging an African-American woman and a caption that says experts in police and race relations are outlining ways new police tactics can calm tensions- }

Iraq’s al-Maliki goves up PM post to Halder al-Abadi  {   }

Ebola outbreak ‘vastly underestimated’ in West Africa: WHO  { I’m beginning to smell something weird in the way we keep getting battered with Ebola stories and then stuff that sounds like it was made up by a propaganda team to try to scare you all to death here. }

Missouri state troopers taking over security in Ferguson   { One of my favourite personalities on Coast to Coast am, who has moved on to try to make it on his own, -John B Wells- brought up this point quite often: Remember when the police were there to ‘preserve and protect’? What happened? Now they show up looking very much lie storm troopers, or an invading army- in black or camouflaged uniforms, wearing armor and carrying very large guns, }

Robin Williams in early stages of Parkinson’s Disease when he died   { Up until I heard this announcement, I thought there was a movement afoot, with people all around the country -and probably both countries here- U.S. & Canada- being sensitized to the point where they were wondering what could be done to make life less stressful and less horrifying to people we might never suspect are having a hard time of it. I mean Robin Williams, in our younger days, I would have thought of him as a best friend, somebody I would hope would show up at a party I couldn’t get out of attending- Seeing him age and not noticing the same in myself, I thought he would have been a really cool neighbor to have while growing up- An awful lot of people lately are finding their lives unbearable and ‘doing themselves in’ -We all lose when anybody does that- it’s a knife in all of our hearts at once. Especially this guy- So now they come out and say he had a degenerative, incurable disease, and I get the feeling that too many people will dismiss this as, an occasion to go, ‘okay, we don’t heave to be sensitive to the needs of our war Veterans and other people whose depressions might be exasperated by the insane pressures we live under in this country- This is a case of his number was up anyway and he didn’t want to stick around and suffer through the worst that he knew was coming’- No! Do not turn your backs on people you know are vulnerable. We need to ‘upgrade’ our culture with a whole lot of compassion and empathy here- you can quote me on that-  -djo- }

Amazon’s aggressive tactics put off authors, publishers   { Last week the first volley in this battle was heard. Stephen King and 900 other authors signed a letter saying ‘shame on Amazon!’ Time for a boycott? Support your local mom and pop bookstores, if there are any left. }

Canada’s military expected to anticipate war in post-9/11 world, retiring general says   { Lieutenant General Stuart Beare said, “The world could use some diplomacy-” and “No one wants to get into an unnecessary and avoidable fight.” -with so many regional conflicts looking like they’re heading toward armed conflict and the pace shows no sign of slowing- I hope we’re not losing a voice of sanity within the military. Do we have any U.S. officers saying things like that? -Probably not in public.  }

Pilot’s prosthetic arm detaches during rocky landing in U.K.   {  }

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“Offbeat”

Alaskan mom, son find wooly mammoth tusks 22 years apart   { -Talking to one of the Jims who covered for me the last couple days, he told me he heard the news this morning and because he has relatives in Alaska, he paid attention to this one. The son found his tusk in almost the same spot his mother found hers 22 years earlier. He also mentioned that a doctor he had the occasion to talk with while he was visiting his relatives up there told him that every once in a while lately something that’s been frozen for 3,000 year would thaw out and release bacteria that cause diseases that we have no record of and might not be able to cure or contain very easily. “That’s where our frontiers of medicine lie-”   }

Historic church moved for highway   { – Jim again, lived in a town where a road went up through a more sparsely populated part of town and circled around a small church- after several slightly inebriated drivers tried to make that the area’s first drive through church, they moved the church and straightened the road there. }

Skunk with head stuck in jar rescued by B.C. woman   { Now this has to be one brave lady. Last week’s cat with a bird feeder on its head was bad enough. Somebody should award her some kind of accolade. }

Humpback whale’s hour-long visit with B.C. boat caught on Camera   { -it’s totally irrelevant, but I always did like dolphins and whales. }

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“Most Viewed”

Community gardens ripped up up along Arbutus corridor   { A Canadian Pacific Rail police officer is shown in a series of photos ‘directing’ local residents to get off Railroad property near Vancouver, B.C. where the locals had nurtured community gardens for years along a ‘disused’ section of railroad tracks there. “No Trespassing”  signs went up Wednesday and Railroad workers showed up yesterday and began tearing down buildings and digging up the gardens and had railroad cops on hands to chase away the people who came rushing in to try to save their crops. }

Kahnawake seeks to remove non-Mohawks from territory   { A similar story, maybe the same one with a different link, says: “Reserve removes those who marry non-Mohawks” -eep- “Why can’t we just all get along?”}

TeamBuy customer raises warning after spa coupon not honoured   { This is from Halifax, N.S. “TeamBuy” is a ‘group buying’ website. A customer/group buying member bought a coupon for $199.00 that was advertized would save her  over $2,200.00 for a year’s membership in a laser hair removal spa – “$2,480 Value” – and when she tried to use it at the spa she was told the website owed the spa money and they were not going to honour that coupon. Then the ‘group buying website’ refused to refund her money. “They were rude, and they hung up on me, I had to chase them for my money,” she says. It’s not over- instead of getting her money back, after several calls and email messages, they gave her ‘team bucks’ coupons. The woman wants her money back and wants an apology for the way she was treated. A person at the spa told the CBC reporter that they have tried to contact the website buying club dozens of times through email and made several calls. They honoured several coupons they were supposed to be reimbursed for and had to stop because they couldn’t afford to go on doing that. }

NDP’s summer slump deepened by House spending woes   { Pardon me, but I don’t like the way this headline is worded. It sounds like an attempt to make a political party look bad. Like printing something along the lines of, “Loser political party jerks looking worse all the time.” The NDP is the party that Tommy Douglas (The ‘father of the Canadian Health Care System’- and a Baptist Minister) was the first leader of when two earlier parties merged. He was the Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 under one of the parties that merged. -anyway- that headline just rubbed me the wrong way. It sounded like it was written by a bully affiliated with a rival party going “ha-ha- lookit those stupid losers over there-” I hope I would feel just as bad if somebody posted a nasty bullying headline aimed at making a party I don’t like look worse than they’re already making themselves look-  }

ISIS child recruitment push hints at long-term ambitions   { Another headline calls this story the ‘Family-friendly jihad’. This story has me worried. We’ve learned that al-Qaeda means “The List” and refers to the list of anti Russian partisans the C.I.A. recruited and gave weapons to in Afghanistan. We’ve heard that agent-provacateurs were probably stirring up hatred between tribes in the middle east to manipulate chaos so western governments could be seen as coming to the rescue when they sent in their armies to take over and install western-friendly governments- Who benefits the most from having a lot of evangelical jihadists terrorizing a whole wide area, threatening to behead not just the western devils, but members of a rival sect within their own religion? }

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“Other”

Ukraine inspects aid convoy as Russian military vehicles spotted near border   { Here’s a scenario for you: a neo fascist movement springs up in the next state or the next county from you. Television reporters announce that clever neo fascist propagandists have been spreading rumours that you and your neighbours are torturing and raping the children of the friends of nice people who moved from that county into yours seeking better jobs. You hear that the neo fascists have recruited the wildest and most violent biker gangs in several states to come to their aid and ‘clean your clocks’. A natural disaster (flooding? earthquake?) or an un-natural disaster, ( a jet falls out of the sky, kills hundreds of passengers, sets acres of corn and wheat fields on fire, stampedes beef cattle who run all over your county-) First you hear that the neo fascists are sending you aid- food relief and veterinarians, and doctors and nurses who specialize in grief counseling- then you hear that the grief counselors are being escorted by bikers who are armed to the teeth and wearing uniforms with the logo of the neo fascists blazing across their jackets. Would you want to have your state’s national guard there, just in case? Now suppose both sides in the Russian-Ukrainian tensions believe the other side is spreading the kinds of lies about them that caused World War I to explode and involve just about everyone in Europe in the bloodiest conflict that continent had ever seen? Do you hear something going “Tick- tick- tick-“? }

Charitable donations spike following death of Robin Williams   {  }

Rallies to honour teen killed by Missouri police held across U.S.   { }

Window-smashing tool a lifesaver, says mom who drove into pond   {  }

Veteran mediator Vince Ready agrees to help end B.C. teachers’ dispute   {  }

Ice Bucket Challenge: Charity success story of damaging fad?   { An accompanying photo looks like athletic guys get a bucket of cold water dumped over their heads while they kneel in a farm field. Mark Zuckerberg -of facebook fame- took part in this challenge. “Once Challenged, you either dump a bucket of ice water over your head or donate $100.00 to the ALS association (ALS =  “Lew Gehrig’s disease”) And then the bucket dumpee has to nominate 3 other people to take the challenge & meet the conditions within 24 hours. }

Pterosaur fossil graveyard reveals striking new species   { They look really strange. Fashion Dinosaurs? The news story calls them flying reptiles. I hope they had really strong necks. Think maybe our racial memory wanted to have captains and admirals in the olde navies look like these guys? I wonder if they insisted that their children respond to their orders with “Aye Aye! Admiral, Sir!”  }

Tim Hortons introduces dark roast coffee   { Tim Hortons is to Canada what Dunkin Donuts is around here- and then some- it’s almost a religion up there. I met one gentleman who was born in Africa and moved to England before falling in love with a Canadian woman -lot of that going around these days- who stood near me and gazed at the long lines of cars going through a Tim Hortons drive through and said, “They must put something in that coffee, some kind of addictive drug- I don’t understand it-” & I didn’t either, not at first. I’m also a big fan of iced coffee- on my first few visits up there there was no such thing as iced coffee anywhere for sale. They had an oversweetened ‘ice-cap’ iced cappuccino- but a hot extra large cup of Tim Hortons coffee left in a refrigerator over night really floats my boat. }

Nordstrom, Marshalls prepare to battle for lucrative Calgary market   { Big U.S. chains of department stores might not have it as easy as they think they will up there. Canadians might not be as gullible as the cynical CEOs of monster discount chains believe they are. Target Stores lost money after their much hyped foray into the Canadian Great (not-so-White) North. Tell ya what- call yourself, “the great american discount store” and I bet you’ll be bankrupt in a year. }

Coffee pod prices set to jump 9%: Kuerig   { Uht-oh A certain K-cup addicted friend of mine will not be happy about this one- }

With soda sales fizzing out, Coca Cola makes huge bet on energy drinks   { And what will they do when people revolt against the sugary ‘energy drinks’? }

Canadian finds first space dust from outside solar system   { I can’t resist: Was that Canadian looking for space dust outside the solar system? And how did he get there? In truth, he spent thousands of hours ‘poring through images of samples brought back by NASA spacecraft as part of the Stardust citizen science project. He found two dust particles that tested as probably being formed around other stars, not our sun. }

Glacier melt worldwide now caused mainly by humans   { This one would be hard to prove. Convincing me might even be harder. }

Online shopping a game changer for business in India   {  }

Former Conservative Party staffer guilty in robocalls trial   { See, straight forward, no loaded words, just a relatively low key headline. No ‘Summer Slump’ or even “Scandal Woes”- }

Confusing sanctions regime irks industry, prompting plan for single list   { -Yeah, this one had me confused. But,- Banks and other financial institutions, (You know? Banksters, the guys who front for institutions that Thomas Jefferson said were”More dangerous than standing armies”? We know they’re not all that bright, but here’s their dilemma: “Businesses currently use 19 different lists from five domestic and international websites to ensure the freezing or seizure of assets linked to certain individuals and entities in countries including Iran, North Korea and, most recently, Russia and Ukraine.” and would like to have one official website where they can go and read up on what they’re not supposed to sell or buy from who and where?- }

Ottawa moving to close price gap with U.S. this fall – somehow: Chris Hall  {  }

Andy Warhol films to be digitized by museums   { If Andy was a twenty-something year old today, would he take a five minute iPhone video and turn that into a 24-hour ‘happening’? I’m trying to remember the exact details, didn’t he film a naked guy sleeping on a sofa in a Greenwich Village loft- for something like six hours and show that in a trendy movie theatre? }

Michael Cera drops new surprise album   { Oh, this is cool: Reincarnation researchers at IISIS -Not the Jihadist group, the ‘Institute for the integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit‘ <— Link – believe that Michael Cera is Harpo Marx Reincarnated. }

7 tips to prevent amputations during DIY home renos   { Apparently there are a lot of do it yourself-ers cutting themselves with power tools, losing fingers and hands and other important parts of their bodies, especially after they remove safety guards. And too many of these people have been around tools all their lives. So- the evil manipulating son of a guns who want everybody to be terrified that there might be terrorists under their beds would also like us to be afraid of any tools we might use to try to improve our surroundings and save a couple evil pieces of paper in the process. }

Ferguson reporters live-tweet their arrest   { Police may have targeted a TV news crew from Al-Jazeera with tear gas and then removed their TV News equipment after the journalists fled the tear gas attack in Ferguson, Missouri. I’m not sure they were Al-Jazeera America– but that group is one of the most diligent, un-biased group of reporters we have trying to find the truth and share it with us. }

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There’s an ad in my browser: ” Find love on line / the shelter pet project adopt ” 🙂

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Deer management plan for Kennebecasis Valley unveiled   { I think I am beginning to have a problem with people who believe that deer need to be managed by human beings- who obviously can’t manage themselves very well- }

Car dependence hurting New Brunswick economy   { If they can prove this one, I’d like to see them prove that cars are hurting the economy of Los Angeles, California. They might be killing people and making us sick since the ice holes who control the ‘fossil fuel’ industry insisted for so long that we needed vehicles that ran on fuel that made them rich, and their dishonest ways are now trying to make us poor- oh, tell me to shut up and finish this- }

Dog owners could be fined, jailed for overnight dog tethering   { Jim told me that a woman around where he lives was facing legal troubles for digging out a dog whose dog house had been buried in one of the blizzards they lived through last winter and cutting the dog’s chain and bringing the dog home with her- The dog’s owner was out of the province and had somebody who was supposedly checking up on the animal daily. }

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{ Ack, first day back with the internet and this took me almost five hours? -Too much stuff I couldn’t just let go- & Typing on a laptop is a whole different ball game— okay if I split metaphors? 11:21 am Ithaca time – I did have to get up and let our puppy dog out a couple times etc. ———djo——— }

Thursday, 14 August, 2014.  -( 17°C / 63°F & raining @ 9:00 am where I’m at )-

{ This is Jim W here again today. Doug is still having problems with his computer. }

{ And again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is any video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———Jim W——— }

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“Lead Stories”

‘Making a bad situation even worse’: The military-like police response in Missouri   { “Video shows men dressed in camouflage, carrying rifles, riding armoured vehicles around the streets of the Missouri town of Ferguson, where an unarmed black teen was killed by police over the weekend. But are they soldiers or police officers? It’s hard to tell, and that’s part of the problem. 7:49 AM ET” }

4 kids killed as Iraqi army, militants clash west of Baghdad  { }

German TV show posts text of EU-Canada free trade deal   { }

Russian aid convoy resumes journey to eastern Ukraine   { }

2 Bountiful, B.C. leaders charged with polygamy   { I guess you can’t get away with having multiple wives if you claim that’s part of your religious belief system. One guy has 4 wives and the other has 24, or has had twenty four over the years. One of the men and one of his wives is also charged with ‘removing a child from Canada under the age of 16′ and the rest of that charge isn’t clear. It may have been ‘sexual interference’ -which sounds to me like they removed someone who wanted to have sex with a boyfriend- or ‘invitation to sexual touching’. I’m wondering if they would be having legal troubles if they just ‘lived together in sin’ and didn’t try to go out and get a marriage certificate. Whatever the charges are involving the ‘child under the age of 16′ would be a whole different matter. }

Federal bill this fall may narrow Canada-U.S price gap   { You probably would find it hard to believe how much more expensive the same items are in Canada compared to the U.S. The people who control the prices have been blaming that on the difference in value between the Canadian ‘Looney’ and the U.S. dollar. But even when the two currencies were at about the same value anybody close to a border could drive across the border and buy a lot of things a lot cheaper in the U.S. than they could up here. (Yeah, I’m in Canada, unlike Doug who is in the finger lakes region of New York State.  }

Can Robin Williams’s death change how we talk about suicide?   { His family was quoted on t.v. this morning as saying they hope we all do not dwell on this- }

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“Offbeat”

‘I need a recharge’: HitchBot sets off on final leg of cross-Canada trip   { I’m tempted to snitch a photo of this thing and post it here. }

Maritime sea life linked to early European explorers   { Mud worms and mud shrimp, which are a staple for millions of birds and fish in the Bay of Fundy may have hitched a ride from Europe to the ‘New World’ in the ballast of explorers’ ships, liked their new home and went fruitful and multiplied. (?) }

Fake celebrity #Makeup Transformations poke fun at internet beauty trend   { }

Whitehorse fox plays with ball, annoys dog, goes viral   { Don’t tell our cats, they’ll want to come back as foxes and drive dogs crazy. }

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“Most Viewed”

Dr. Arthur Porter, accused Canadian fraudster, injured in Panamanian prison riot   { }

Alaska bear attack: Woman drives herself to hospital after mauling   { “A 57-year-old Alaskan hiker survived after being mauled by a brown bear on a wilderness trail, walking more than a mile to her truck and driving to hospital after the attack, state police reported on Wednesday.” The bear might have been bothered by the dogs the woman was hiking with. The woman thinks the bear bit her six or seven times. – Remember Sarah Palin? We’d have to ask if the bear was wearing lipstick.-  *Related stories: “Alaska bear falls through skylight into party, eats all the cupcakes.” & “-Video- Mother bear rescues cub from B.C. highway” }

Topsail Road Sobeys shaming fire lane offenders   { “Sobeys” is a supermarket chain. Topsail Road is in St John’s Newfoundland (“Holy Jumpin!” ). They’ve been shaming drivers who park in the ‘no parking, fire lane’ by announcing their license plate numbers over the store’s intercom.  }

Dog owner dies trying to save Dalmatian in Britannia fire.   { 🙁 I would have tried, too- }

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“Other”

Is Michael Sona ‘Pierre Poutine’? Robocalls verdict due today   { A Conservative-party-affiliated person has been accused of making ‘robocalls’ to direct 6,000 voters to the wrong polling station the day of the 2011 federal election. The Liberal Party incumbent held on to the seat anyway. If found guilty, the perpetrator can face up to five years in prison. The article goes on to say “Verdict doesn’t mean case is over” & *** A “Fair Elections Bill” sponsored by that same Conservative Party is reported to be something that would take the power to investigate cases of fraud like this one away from ‘Elections Canada’, the agency that is supposed to assure that elections are fair and honest. ***}

-New- Alison Redford’s travel scout job included advice on souvenirs, patios   {  }

Canada Post asking for doctor’s note to keep home mail delivery   { Canada Post has confirmed that it will require medical information from people who have indicated they are physically unable to pick their mail up from community cluster boxes. *** I bet this scheme would fall out of favor if they put all Members of Parliament’s mail boxes in the middle of the most impoverished, crime ridden section of the nearest city to where they live or work. }

Exhausted Gazans still hold out hope for open borders: Derek Stoffel  { }

U.S. Pilot pleads guilty in Calgary to smuggling loaded handgun in carry-on   {  }

2 boats under DFO investigation after whale chased   { }

Lake Superior research ship snags sunken century-old barge   { }

Cisco to slash 6,000 jobs   { }

‘As seen on TV’ company accused of scamming customers in lawsuit   { }

SeaWorld stung by whale captivity backlash, stock takes nosedive   {  }

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“Local” / “Ottawa”

Man rescued from Rideau Canal after crashing SUV   { }

Ottawa Public Health wants more e-cigarette research, regulations   { }

Bestiality, child pornography charges laid against Gatineau couple   { }

“New Brunswick”

New Moncton high school not ready for students   { }

Fredericton police locate accused drug store robber   { }

Car flies through trees in Rothesay neighbourhood   { }

#NB Liberals are promising to tax richest NBers more & recind business tax break to bring in $63M more in revenue   { }

Chance Harbour woman finds N.S. girl who sent message in a bottle   { }

FIFA fans frustrated by parking system in Moncton   { }

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{ I found a whole page full of New Brunswick Headlines and stories – & I think it takes me twice as long to do this as it does Doug, and he gets more and better comments in, um, that’s my opinion- hurry back, Doug! —ready to push the “Publish” button @ 10:47 am here in the rain ———Jim W———}

Wednesday, 13 August, 2014.  -( 24°C / 75°F & ‘Mostly Cloudy’ @ 1:00 pm where I’m at )-

{ This is Jim W here again today. Doug is still having problems with his computer. }

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is any video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———jimw——— }

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“Lead Stories”

Céline Dion halts career to care for husband René Angélil   { The singer has been under a lot of stress herself since her husband had a cancerous tumor surgically removed last December. }

Ottawa researcher pleads guilty in pathogen smuggling case   {  }

Air Canada Jazz Flight AC8953 flight makes emergency landing in Ottawa   { }

Passengers on Air Transat 2001 flight shed light on PTSD    { }

Italian reporter, Palestinian translator die in Gaza blast   { }

Number of dead  in Ukraine conflict doubles to over 2,000   { In a related story there’s a headline: “60 people a day dying in Ukraine violence” }

Why blacks in the U.S. believe they’re targeted by police   {  }

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“Offbeat”

Young hooded seal makes visit to Montreal waters   { }

HitchBot nears the end of its cross-Canada journey   { }

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“Most Viewed”

Nick and Lisa Masee still missing 20 years after mysterious disappearance   { }

Virginia Hillis, Gwendolyn Deegan, 2 dual citizens, sue Ottawa for allowing new U.S. FATCA tax rules   { “American-born dual citizens … cite charter rights”  “Two women in Ontario are suing the federal government for complying with a new U.S. law that forces banks to turn over financial information of Canadian citizens to IRS upon request.” Both women moved from the U.S. to Canada as children and have lived in Canada for decades. ‘They argue the recently enacted Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act violates their rights as Canadians under to Charter of Rights and Freedoms. }

Toddler near London found safe after intense OPP search   { }

Samsung Galaxy Alpha metal-frame phone unveiled   { }

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“Other”

Near-record rainfall swamps Michigan   { There is a photo with this article that shows several vehicles abandoned at the side of a flooded highway, some of them with only the very top of their roofs above water. }

‘The future of money’: Toronto gets 6 new bitcoin machines   { }

Radar software may fix weather forecast issues caused by wind farms   { }

‘Soft landing’ expected for housing market, CMHC says   { }

-Analysis- From Vietnam to Gaza, the fearful history of tunnel warfare: Joe Schlessinger   { }

“He was always warm, even in his darkest moments’: Robin Williams’s family speaks   { }

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki warns of more turmoil if replaced   { }

5 climbers die on Western Europe’s tallest mountain   { That would be Mount Blanc in France }

Police shoot armed man amid protests over teen’s death   { }

Justin Bieber to take plea deal in Florida street racing case   { }

Kellogg to make suppliers report carbon emissions   { }

-Must Watch- Trapped turtle freed   { }

-Must Watch- Flood waters surge through hospital   { “A massive wave of water bursts through the cafeteria at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska” }

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“Local” / “Ottawa”

Pedestrians seriously hurt after 2 downtown Ottawa crashes   { }

Heavy rainfall douses Ottawa’s warm summer weather   { }

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“Technology & Science”

Stanford professor 1st woman to win ‘Nobel Prize of mathematics’   { }

‘Electro-mats’ used to deter wildlife away from Banff train tracks   { }

First Nation aims to evict Imperial Metals over Mount Polley tailings spill   { }

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{ Again, I don’t know how Doug gets his local news from a New Brunswick feed, what I get is from Ottawa. ———Jim W——— }

Tuesday, 12 August, 2014.  -( 20°C / 68°F & ‘Mostly Cloudy’ @ 9:30 pm where I’m at )-

{ This is Jim W here today. Doug is having problems with his own computer today. }

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if & when there is video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———jimw——— }

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“Lead Stories”

Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging: official  { }

-New- Lauren Bacall, screen legend, dead at 89   { }

US sends another 130 military personnel to Iraq   { }

Pot Lobbyist Marc Emery back in Canada after U.S. jail time   { }

Al Sharpton condemns shooting of ‘gentle giant’ black man   { }

Canada offers experimental Ebola vaccine to West Africa   { Related Story’s Headline below }

B.C. Mountie pleads guilty to fabricating evidence in paternity case   { }

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“Offbeat”

Tiger selfies curtailed in New York as new law goes into effect   { }

Rare panda triplets born in China   { }

Turkish scientists to study 2-headed dolphin calf   { }

Romance up in the air for love at first flight’s Katie Moreau   { }

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“Most Viewed”

Robin Williams death puts Mrs. Doubtfire 2 in jeopardy   { }

Statistics Canada retracts July jobs report because of ‘error’   { }

Canadians spend more on taxes than food, shelter: Fraser Institute   { Did I see Jim A mention yesterday that the explanation for how to arrive at the amount that Canada Revenue believes you owe the Canadian government in income tax reads like a Monty Python Routine? He’s right, it really looks like they double charge both spouses for being ridiculous enough to get married and think they can afford to work, eat, breath and keep a roof over their heads. }

Drone sighting by Jazz pilot leads to Transport Canada probe   { }

Air quality advisory issued for Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley   { }

Coun. Doug Ford gets defamation notice from Toronto police chief    { }

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“Other”

Ebola experimental drugs and vaccines in early days of testing   { Why does it not surprise me that they are shipping untested drugs to Africa? }

Police, citing threats, refuse to ID officer who fatally shot black teen in Missouri   { }

Bombardier moves 3 new new subway cars through Thunder Bay picket line   { }

NDP satellite offices broke House rules, Commons board concludes   { Sounds like a case of slight of hand- “If we can confuse the public into looking at the New Democratic Party suspiciously, maybe they won’t see what we’re trying to pull over their eyes.” }

Obama calls Harper to discuss Iraq crisis   {  }

Facebook’s ‘mandatory’ Messenger app prompts torrent of terrible iTunes reviews   { A facebook friend from the U.S. posted a disgusted reaction to effbook’s mandatory app, “They can force everybody to accept an app that resets all their privacy settings, but they can’t allow the parents of a 15 year old suicide victim access to the girl’s account so they can see if there were any clues as to why she killed herself?” }

Lightning strike scorches playpen with baby in it  { }

Toronto’s ‘Condo King’ says 50% of condos are foreign-owned   { This time next year- will they be claiming that 50% of those condos are owned by space aliens? }

Candy Crush maker’s stock plummets after bitter-tasting report   { }

Physicists celebrate Shrödinger’s 127th birthday with cat video   { So, until most people in the world know who Shrödinger was, is he both alive and dead at the same time inside his box? }

7 charged in illegal big-game meat-trafficking operation   { }

Hacker used Canadian internet provider to rack up online currency, experts say   { A friend told me that an experienced hacker can use any internet provider anywhere to further his or her dirty work. I am reminded of the case in which an 84 year-old married couple were nearly shocked to death when a swat team broke into their home and bedroom because they had evidence that child pornography had originated from their internet account. The elderly couple did not have their security high enough to keep a creep from parking within a block of their home and using their unprotected wifi connection. }

Readers split on U.S. involvement in Iraq conflict   {  }

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“Local” / “Ottawa”

Arrest made in Panama homicide of Ottawa’s Ed Moynan   { I don’t know about Panama, but any arrest made in some Central American countries would ring in my ears like a case of the watch captain telling his officers- “Go arrest somebody who looks guilty, shoot him in the back for trying to escape and we’ll call this case solved.” }

Robin Williams death a reminder of mental illness’s scope   { }

Yak farmer from Lanark County in court over trespassing herd   { Trespassing Yaks, you don’t see that every day- }

Jo Oliver says reducing taxes a priority in 2015   { Must be an election year coming, ya think? “Promise them anything but give them-” oh never mind. }

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{ I couldn’t find the New Brunswick local news – maybe when Doug returns to his morning posting routine here-  I should post this while it’s still Tuesday (( Hurry back Doug- we need you- )) ———jimw——— }

Monday, 11 August, 2014.  -(14°C / 57°F & ‘Mostly Cloudy’ @ 8:45 am where I’m at )-

{ This is Jim here this morning. Doug is having to deal with his boss’ Windows 7 machine, which is experiencing dust clogged system fans and other scarey stuff }

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———jim——— }

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“Lead Stories”

U.S. begins arming Kurdish forces to battle ISIS in Iraq   { }

Vigil for Missouri teen shot by police ends in looting   { There’s a related story below. }

Ukraine rocket attack on prison allows over 100 to escape   { }

NASCAR’s Tony Stewart hits, kills sprint car driver   { }

Israel-Hamas 3-day ceasefire appears to be holding in Gaza   { }

-New- Foreign-aid charities join forces to challenge Revenue Canada audits, rules   { To tell you the truth, after I fell in love with a Canadian and came up here and jumped through hoops to become a permanent resident and then a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen- the formulae they use to compute taxes look an awful lot to me like they double charge both spouses whether they file separately or together- and reading their formula pages in the income tax booklet is like watching a Monty Python routine. }

-Analysis- ‘We’ve lost enough lives’: Are Americans isolationists or just war-weary?   { ‘Isolationist’ George Washington had a vision near the end of his life and warned everybody in politics at the time to avoid the heck out of getting mixed up in foreign matters. Looks like he had the right idea- }

-Photos- Biggest, brightest supermoon of 2014 rose Sunday   { I took a couple photos of last night’s moon, flash went off on one, and the moon was still so bright it still lit up the sky, on another, after I made sure the flash was off, No matter how steady the camera was, it still came out just a little bit blurry. }

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“Offbeat”

City fire hydrants earn $24 million in parking tickets since 2008   { “Earn”? This is about Toronto, Ontario. There is a photo with this article that shows a fire hydrant 20 feet back from the road, in the middle of a very wide sidewalk, where people parking their cars probably couldn’t see it. Sounds like entrapment to me. & I don’t like the cheeky tone of the article either. Like they’re making fun of anybody who isn’t hyper vigilant enough to comb the area to see the hydrant, heck, & if there are a lot of people on the sidewalk, there is no way the driver would see that. }

Two dozen riders stranded on top of roller-coaster rescued by crane   { I saw this on television news last night- couldn’t tell then how long the passengers would have to wait to be rescued. }

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“Most Viewed”

Jihadist Khaled Sharrouf tweets photo of son holding soldier’s severed head   { In another headline in a different section of this page, they identify the Jihadist tweeting the photo as an Australian }

Emma Paulsen, B.C. dog walker, charged in deaths of 6 dogs   {  }

The longest day in Toronto Blue Jays history   { The Blue Jays tied in the 9th inning and played with that 5 – 5 tie until the 19th inning when a Blue Jays batter, who had gone 0 for 7, got a hit and drove in the winning run. Both teams had run out of pitchers,  one reliever pitched 6 innings. }

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“Other”

-Photos- Kids of Canadiens goalie share rare photos from Maurice Richard era   { }

-Analysis- America’s child migrant crisis, a made-in-the-U.S. problem   { U.S. readers: get the link up at the top of the article & follow it to dive into this one. I’m from the ‘states’ and I’m baffled by the intensity of the people arguing against making sure that kids are protected under the law. }

Why Democrats are hammering social issues in U.S. campaigns   { I distinctly remember Ralph Nader running under the Green Party banner in the 2000 (Y2K) election (the first of two that were stolen by the Bush family to put G.W. in the white house-and keep him there fro two terms) with bumper stickers depicting two headed animals- all red, white and blue- donkey head facing left, elephant head facing right. I think Ralph labeled them “Republicrats” & (ex-) Governor Jesse Ventura said in an interview the other night on Coast to Coast am ( <— Link ) that he couldn’t tell the difference between Obama and G. W. Bush as far as what they did while in office, not what they promised to do before they got there. }

‘We did not abandon our son,’ Australia couple says of Down syndrome baby   { }

Silicon Valley North: Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles   { }

Keystone climate impacts could be 4 times higher than estimate, study says   { }

The Fault in Our Stars actors win big at 2014 Teen Choice Awards   { }

Witness to Missouri police shooting speaks   { The witness is a friend of the 18 year old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri }

Frank Maloney, former boxing promoter, having sex change   { I almost left this one out, thinking jeeze, this person deserves privacy- but then I thought about the one person who needs to know that others are struggling with- and coming to terms with- issues like ‘knowing’ you were born into the wrong sex- who just might read this and find some relief. My mother babysat a girl my sister’s age who- as a four year old- used to tell me she remembered when she was a boy. Her date to one of their class reunions was a woman. I was there because my sister’s husband, after coming all the way (250 miles) down to Connecticut to go to the reunion -developed terminal cold feet when the sheer number of people around that area freaked him out. Plus I had a lot of friends in my sister’s class. The girl I used to talk to while coloring in coloring books was wearing something that looked like a cross between a pants suit and a tuxedo. I thought nothing of it until she came over, recognized me and introduced me to her girlfriend. I was thinking, wow, she’s got guts. And I didn’t catch any weird disorders from being near her, didn’t find myself compelled to start thinking about guys as possible dates or love interests or anything- }

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Super moon boosts tidal bore on Petitcodiac   { A photo shows two guys surfing on the rising tide- }

Const. Doug Larche’s widow thankful for tribute at N.B. marathon.   { I don’t know- do you think it’s disrespectful for the headline writer to shorten “Constable” to “Const.”? -They added a period and saved themselves 3 letters. Other headlines are longer- so it wasn’t a space consideration }

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{ There were other articles that have been around since Friday. I did not repeat them. }

{ Wow, Doug does a lot of work to get this done. I was thinking I should let him do the comments when he gets home- There are a lot of things that he seems to be better informed about and more passionate about than I am. ———jim——— }

Sunday, 10 August, 2014.  -( 77°F / 25°C & Clear @ 12:00 pm in Ithaca, NY, USA )-

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———djo——— }

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“Lead Stories”

Palestinians accept Egypt proposal for 72-hour ceasefire   { }

-Developing- ISIS killed 500 Yazidis, some buried alive: Iraq   {Honest journalists believe that main stream and propagandists are trying to set us up for a war: U.S. vs Syria }

-Developing- Ukraine: No ceasefire possible until separatists surrender   { I still don’t know who the real bad guys are here, Conspiracy Watch people believe we’re being conditioned for something, painting Vladimir Putin as the bad guy when he might not be. }

-Developing- Patient in Brampton, Ontario tests negative for Ebola virus   { How many days will they be putting up headlines about Ebola? Even if there is no real news here? }

Iran plane crashes after takeoff, killing 39   { Is somebody trying to scare everybody out of flying? }

-New- Japan tropical storm forces more than 1 million to flee homes   { I probably should bite my tongue and not say anything about the Conspiracy buffs who believe that bad guys are controlling the weather. }

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“Offbeat”

Deepak Chopra tries to set Guiness meditation world record in Toronto   { This article calls Deepak Chopra a ‘spiritual guru’. He wants to lead thousands in an on-line meditation to break the world’s record for largest synchronized online meditation. & while Deepak Chopra makes a lot of sense and has a lot of good advice for people -like, “Don’t buy any food in a package that has somebody’s name on it.”- He comes from a culture that would not allow him to call himself a “Guru”. There are incredibly high standards anyone would have to meet to obtain that distinction. }

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“Most Viewed”

Iraq conflict: U.S. hits more ISIS targets as Yazidi ‘mass graves’ reported   { }

Power restored after 4.3 magnitude earthquake hits central Alberta   { }

Prison inmates take federal government to court over pay cuts   { }

Red Deer man turns to Kijiji to sell fighter jet   { }

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“Other”

Tony Stewart pulls out of race after killing driver   { }

Cyberbullying has ‘hugely disproportionate impact on women and girls’   { }

B.C. approves controlled release of Polley Lake water in mine tailings pond breach   { }

How TMZ’s Harvey Levin changed the rules of celebrity   { TMZ has ‘masculinized’ gossip? TMZ has a 40% male audience. Because they word their headlines to appeal to men? }

Dozens of Australian firefighters to help battle B.C. wildfires   { Another headline says Australia will send 80 firefighters to help battle the wildfires. }

-Photos- Uganda gay pride parade   { What we’ve been hearing from Africa lately is that more and more states over there are criminalizing homosexuality and/or making the penalties for practicing homosexuality worse. }

Roger Ferderer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga set for Rogers Cup final   { }

Mount Polley mine; Ex-engineers warned tailings pond ‘getting huge’   { }

HealthMap software flagged Ebola 9 days before outbreak announced   { -Yeah, this headline should help you sleep soundly- }

Slumber-starved astronauts pop pills to fall asleep   { Is this a thinly veiled advertisement for big Pharma? }

Premature births may be linked to stress, new Alberta study suggests   { A researcher at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta says that the cause of premature births could be linked back to stress in past generations. They’re trying to explain to themselves why Alberta has the highest pre-term birth rate in Canada }

‘Stop hurting authors’, 900 writers sign letter against Amazon   { ‘Hundreds of authors, including Stephen King, have signed a letter telling Amazon to stick to the corporate backroom as it negotiates for cheaper e-books and leave them out of its dispute with a U.S. publisher.’ }

J.K. Rowling reaches out to Texas girl who lost family in murder rampage   { The 15 year old sole survivor of a rampage that left her parents and 4 siblings dead, quoted Albus Dumbledore at a memorial service and J.K.R. sent the girl a personal letter & a package and all parties who asked ‘what was in the package?’ have been told -that’s none of your business- I think I respect J.K. Rowling a little more because of this. }

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Saint John marathon honours slain Mountie Doug Larche   { }

Moncton shooting murder plea brings some relief to police   { }

Saint John home robbed in overnight break-in   { }

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{ Published @ 12:38 pm – comments and colors added 1:17 pm ———djo——— }

Saturday, 09 August, 2014.  -( 70°F / 21°C & Clear @ 10:45 am in Ithaca, NY, USA )-

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———djo——— }

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“Lead Stories“

-Developing- Ontario man has Ebola-like symptoms on returning from Nigeria

-Developing- 3 bodies found in rubble after strike on Gaza mosque

-Developing- Milos Raonic ousted in Rogers Cup quarter-finals

-Developing- Us bombards ISIS targets, drops aid to Yazidis in N. Iraq

-Breaking- Obama not giving ‘particular timetable’ on strikes on ISIS

How much government accommodation can you expect because of religion or a disability?

Franklin search: Jim Balsillie, warship all part of largest effort yet to find lost ships

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“Offbeat“

10 wacky backyard inventions from China

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gets a “creepy” new makeover    { Oddly enough, ‘creepy’ is a word I heard myself saying quite a bit in the past week, and I wondered why I suddenly picked that word to describe a multitude of things. }

Thousands of people are watching a fish play Pokemon right now   { Now, this is creepy. }

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“Most Viewed”

Stephen Carter, former Redford adviser, believes Albertans ‘won’t be fooled again’

{ Plus several other stories listed above in ‘lead stories’ section }

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“Other”

Ambulance delay slammed after B.C. Skidegate band First Nation councillor dies of heart attack

GAZA conflict: Rockets, airstrikes after Gaza war truce collapses

Supermoon Sunday will be biggest moon of 2014   { And I know several people who are looking forward to giving their new telescopes a workout this weekend. }

James Brady death ruled a homicide, 33 years after Washington shooting   { James Brady died this last Monday at the age of 73. His family said he died from a series of health issues. I can’t tell from this article whether the medical examiner believes the health issues resulted from the gunshot wound to the head 33 years ago- or was there something new involved that has been ruled a homicide? John Hinkley Jr, the shooter who tried to assassinate President Ron Reagan a few short months into Reagan’s presidency, has been described as a victim of MK-Ultra mind-washing / mind-control conditioning, and was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1981. -Maybe prosecutors back then were afraid he might blab something on the witness stand that would point the finger back to the brain washing?- Also, Ron Reagan’s eventual Alzheimer’s Disease has been described as a result of his being exposed to mycoplasma released in illegal C.I.A. ‘experiments’ in the 70’s in the U.S.A. One reporter said the mycoplasma is an opportunistic bacteria that will attack a person’s most vulnerable organs. And Reagan might never have been infected if he hadn’t been shot in this attack. Alleged C.I.A.  mycoplasma releases occurred in several places around the U.S.A., including very public spaces such as Times Square in New York City, and, the one case that reporters found particularly appalling, was supposed to have happened when agents supposedly released mycoplasma into the air conditioning / ventilation system of a Texas middle school. }

Indonesian girl swept away in 2004 tsunami found alive   { The girl, now 15 years old, was swept away as a 4 year old, and with her brother, hung on to a floating board for quite some time. The then 4 year old girl remembers talking to her brother and then remembers nothing until after she realized that she’d been rescued, but believed her brother was still floating around on the board somewhere. One elderly member of the family who acted as the girl’s foster family, the foster grand mother, has been taken into the home of the girl’s biological family. }

Hundreds of Iraqi women reportedly held captive by ISIS militants

Hawaii largely dodges impact of storm Iselle while awaiting Hurricane Julio   { It was reported on Coast to Coast am before tropical storm Iselle hit, that there were massive power outages all over the first island in the Hawaiian chain to be ‘targeted’ by the storm. }

Canadian dollar tumbles with huge miss in jobs data expectations    { This ‘tumble’ wasn’t that huge, the ‘looney’ dropped to a value of 91.15 cents in terms of the U$ dollar. Economist expected 20,000 new jobs to be created and only counted 200. }

Unemployment dips to 7%, most new jobs are part time   { I haven’t trusted unemployment numbers reported by mainstream media since I learned that these numbers have been ‘fudged’ by the reporting agencies within the government all along. If they report that 7% are unemployed, they mean 7% of the workforce is collecting unemployment. Those who cannot find employment and probably gave up trying are never reported, and if real numbers were reported, the figure would be more like 25%- worse than the so-called ‘Great Depression’. Conspiracy buffs have been calling this economic situation that we are still experiencing now, ‘The Great Deception’, or ‘a part of the Great Deception.’ }

Facebook Mentions celebrity app gets wide release

Mick Jagger urges Scots to vote ‘no’ to independence   { If you were a citizen of Scotland, would you pay any attention to voting advice from Mick Jagger? }

Into the Storm: Film Review

Charlotte Le Bon’s culinary trip in The Hundred-Foot Journey

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Film Review

Readers at odds over Sask. family farm flap

Thin Gap model prompts ‘skinny-shaming’ debate

‘Push for pizza’ app delivers pizza with one click

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Justin Bourque pleads guilty to murdering 3 Moncton Mounties   { There is something about this case that didn’t feel right to me from the beginning. The ‘disturbed teenager’ posts hate messages against police officers on facebook, wanders around his neighborhood in broad daylight with several loaded firearms, shoots 5 police officers, killing 3, then calmly walks up to police with his hands up and says it’s over,  and now just calmly sits there while he’s being charged?  

Joceleyne Roy-Vienneau named New Brunswick lieutenant-governor   { She is the francophone vice-president of the Université de Moncton’s Shippagan campus. And she was picked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper? }

Apparent Stanley Cup ring discovered by 7-year-old at Tide Head

Marsh Creek tests show 99% drop in fecal bacteria count

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{ I might be back in a couple hours to comment and colorize these entries. ———djo——— }

Friday, 08 August, 2014.  -( 72°F / 22°C & ‘Partly Cloudy’ @ 2:15 pm in Ithaca, NY, USA )-

{ Again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories or watch the video -if there is video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———djo——— }

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“Lead Stories”

-Must Watch- Grumpy Cat frowns upon NYC

-Live- U.S. military action against ISIS in Iraq ‘limited in scope’ White House says

-Analysis- Ebola outbreak: it’s not the virus but Africa that’s changed

-New- Remains of Canadian MH17 victim Andrei Anghel identified

-Video- ‘Be rolling with your video camera’: CBC’s Derek Stoffel on Gaza reporting

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“Offbeat”

Thousands of people are watching a fish play Pokemon right now

Toddler apprehended by Secret Service at White House

Cessna plane lands on Quebec highway after engine trouble

Artist criticized for mounting iPads on tortoises

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“Most Viewed”

Costco crash: Ruth Burger, driver of car, charged with criminal negligence

Tim Bosma killing: Christina Noudga to be released on $100K bail

Jann Arden boycotts radio station for shortening songs

Mount Polley mine spill: Ministe says residents may get lucky break

Gaza rocket launched during CBC interview

Alzheimer’s patients often go ‘back in time’ doctor says

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“other”

200 jobs created in July, unemployment dips to 7%

How Justin Trudeau’s memoir is a political ‘rite of passage’

First storm in Hawaii one-two punch brings heavy rains

Tailings pond spill: What happens to effluent over time

‘Brain-like’ chip with programmable neurons made by IBM

‘If you see it, they’ll make more’: Eli Glasner on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

-must watch- Underwater wedding

-At issue- Your mid-summer political questions answered

Magna expects banner year on strengthening auto sales

China to jail British-U.S. couple in corporate corruption case

B.C.’s Tekmira gets FDA approval to fast track Ebola drug

17% of condo owners in Toronto, Vancouver bought for investment

Sunrise propane class-action lawsuit granted $23M settlement

5 tips for watching the 2014 Perseid meteor shower

Russians required to give personal ID for public Wifi access

‘I don’t think it well ever entirely be clened up’: What tailings ponds become over time

CBSA allowed religious travellers to avoid female guards

Chief Ron Giesbrecht won’t resign after $1M payday controversy

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Alward election ads mau need tweaking after Redford’s downfall

Attempted murder charge laid in Saint John trailer park shooting

Air Canada union takes cut of flight attendants to court

Justin Bourque trial date expected to be set today

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{ & I will finishing editing later-  ———djo——— } { Doug got tied up at work and never could finish with comments – jda -}