Fri., 20 Feb., 2015 – News?
Friday, 20 February, 2015 -( +7˚F / -14˚C & clear @ 5:45 ap near Ithaca )- -( +12˚F / -11°C w/scattered clouds & darkness descending @ 6:45 pm Closer to Halifax —jim w—)- — { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— } { Some things change, some articles remain. Do you know where your survival kit is? —djo— }
Switzerland 🙂
“Moment of Truth”? – Bear on a horizontal tree. I have no idea where this photo was taken. —djo—
Lord Byron quoted. —djo—
And a little encouragement is always a good thing. —djo—
And a bit of Nostalgia/History – & Yoko just had a birthday. —djo—
{ Today’s Birthdays : — You can find all this and more at http://www.historyorb.com/today/birthdays.php
February 20th: 1887 – Vincent Massey, Toronto Ontario, Governor General of Canada. 1896 – Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist. 1900 – Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer. 1902 – Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award). 1904 – Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80). 1916 – Jackie Gleason, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners). 1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, don’t my jeans look great (poor little rich girl). 1925 – Robert Altman, Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, M*A*S*H). 1927 – Sidney Poitier, 1st African American actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor (‘Lillies in the Field’ – 1963), born in Miami, Florida. 1929 – Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], American actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1989). 1937 – Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love). 1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone). 1946 – J[erome] Geils, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), born in NYC, New York & Sandy Duncan, Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family). 1947 – Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man) & Jennifer O’Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of ’42). 1949 – Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Cz, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club). 1951 – Gordon Brown, Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, British Labour Prime Minister (2007–10) & Randy California, [Wolfe], Cal, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You). 1953 – Kathy Krafchick, Friend of Jim W’s. 1954 – Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya). 1955 – Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser). 1963 – Charles Barkley, Leads Alabama, NBA forward (Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96) & William Baldwin, NY, actor (Backdraft, Sliver, Flatliners). 1966 – Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit). 1967 – Andrew Shue, actor (Melrose Place) & Kurt Cobain, Aberdeen Washington, rock vocalist (Nirvana). }
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{ Canadian Headlines : From : http://www.cbc.ca/news <— Link }
Mountie guilty of perjury in Robert Dziekanski Taser death { }
RCMP close investigation into former Alberta premier without laying charges { }
‘Just in enough time’, naked 4-year old found wandering in bitter cold { }
Scientists discover a material stronger than spider silk { * “- in the teeth of a vegetarian sea snail.” * —djo— }
Niagara Falls photo taken on February 17th. I don’t see the falls here, do you?
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How an Anti Austerity platform can win in Spain.
How to use a cell or smart phone without being spied on? Yay! —djo—
Measles documented among fully immunized.
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A Florida based artist has been told to stop selling miniature versions of the Super Bowl halftime ‘character’ sharks.
Offbeat News:
Why shooting moose with paintball guns might be a great idea { * ???? * —djo— }
Blowtorches being used to melt sidewalk ice in Windsor { * I think I remember a really old issue of Mad Magazine suggesting various ways snow cleanup could be made much more effective and easier – one of them involved flame throwers, but the ‘after’ frame showed an entire city under about 20 feet of water. * —djo— }
Nestlé and Hershey pledge to make their candy bars healthier { * If G.M.O. ingredients are involved, don’t buy it. * —djo— }
Snowpiercing train bowls over rail fans with the white stuff { }
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New words to describe extreme weather? = “Freeze-nado” ? Works for me. —djo—
The Big Chill – Version 2015 – Hits the Maritimes-
Local / New Brunswick / Maritime News:
Liberals plan to scrap HST referendum requirement { }
Irving pipeline gets retroactive approval fro EUB { * New Brunswick’s Energy and Utilities Board has granted an Irving Oil company retroactive permission to build an oil pipeline that the company already built without permission last year. * —“Not Good,” —djo— }
Larry’s Gulch review findings will ‘absolutely’ be made public { * This is a New Brunswick ‘scandal’ that sounds way too much like a slight of hand distraction to take your attention away from something else. The Province owns a multi-million dollar fishing lodge where they entertained visiting politicians and invited newspaper reporters who were fired for conflict of interest violations. There also seems to be some confusion over when the lodge went from being ‘private’ to ‘publicly owned’ & where the line between private and public functions was drawn. The new Liberal government has decided that the lodge can only be used for functions designed to bring jobs to New Brunswick. *** “Any time I hear a politician utter words like ‘jobs’ or ‘Leadership’ I know my ears are about to be assaulted by pure and utter b.s.” — Douglas Jay Otterson *** * —djo— }
Energy East Pipeline construction training premature, David Coon says. { * The Energy East Pipeline is a project that is being bitterly contested in Quebec. Activists cite dangers to wildlife, and say the claims of loads of jobs for local people is highly over-estimated and point out that New Brunswick will lose money in this deal unless they re-write the agreement with the corporations that will own the pipeline. And instead of refining and distributing the gas/oil the pipeline is supposed to deliver, here, they claim the resources would be exported, benefiting foreign interests at our expense. Oh, and Irving Oil stands to save and reap loads of money if this goes through. * —djo— }
Mounting snow days leave schools scrambling { }
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End Homelessness Now. It’s much more cost effective to give homeless people a place to live than to leave them out in the cold. —djo—
{ “Perma-Link” to the above article, copied and pasted at “Child Of Light” >>—> http://www.aerendel.org/news/?p=396 <—<< }
India is building the world’s largest solar plant. 🙂 —djo—
It looks like more people every day realize that September 11, 2001 was perpetrated, if not entirely by- then with the help of – possibly rogue – US Government Insiders. —djo—
Effective Cartoon, Surveillance State dark ops goons tear a hole in the Canadian Charter of Rights to further their godless power. —djo—
Conservative Lies cast Environmentalist as terrorists. Well, if the conservative’s jobs are threatened by people telling the truth, maybe they should be in terror. Ya think? —djo—
Government Terrorism = “Governments have killed more of their own citizens than all the wars in the past hundred years.” —djo—
“How to gut oversight .101 – make sure the watchdogs don’t get enough money to function.” = Stephen Harper will leave the PM’s office in Handcuffs. —djo—
“Canada Jettisons Rights and Land Claims in a bid to label environmentalists as terrorists.” —djo—
“Anti-Terror Legislation is aimed at labeling Environmental Activists as terrorists.”
The Harper government’s deregulations seen as the real cause of the Lac-Megantic tragedy.
From OccupyWallStreet-NYC & The Electronic Freedom Foundation, thanks to “—jda—“
-Um, another theory: The ‘War on Drugs’ is a manipulation to keep the ‘street prices’ of drugs high so the C.I.A. and other ‘black-ops’ groups who traffic in those drugs to keep their budgets secret can really cash in on their highly profitable business. They do want a Police State, but the ‘war on drugs’ is just one more strategy designed to bring that about. —djo—
Human Rights are under attack around the world, not just in the USA and Canada
Follow these links, even if you have to type them in manually, this guy is the real thing. —djo—
Strip Mining on the Moon?
Here’s a page for ya- Wow.
“Smart” Phones, “Smart” Meters, “Smart” appliances, “Smart TeeVees spying on You” — “Smart”-Anything is beginning to = “Bad News”. —djo—
God Bless Ed Snowden – And why do those guys on the right look like somebody has a gun pointed at their private parts? —djo—
Keep up the good work 🙂
I wish I said that- —djo—
“Happiness can only be found within” —djo—
— We should quit here and publish this fiasco before we look at the clock and realize it’s next week already and we haven’t gotten anything done in our ‘real lives’ —djo—
