Wednesday, August 6th, 2014.  -( 68°F / 20°C & Hazy @ 10:00 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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“Developing“

Russian hackers steal 1.2 billion passwords   { Russian Hackers have stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords in a series of internet heists affecting 420,000 websites, according to a report published Tuesday. The New York Times based its story on the findings of Hold Security, a Milwaukee firm that has a history of uncovering online security breaches }

Tycoon can sue Google over defamatory autocomplete suggestions

‘Capturing that multifaceted woman’: Olivia Wilde’s breastfeeding photo shoot   { There’s a thumbnail with the link of a pleasant looking woman feeding her baby }

Local state of emergency declared after B.C. tailings pond wall collapse   { This story had several links and a bit of history linked with them yesterday }

“Updated“

Ex-Alberta premier Alison Redford resigns as member of legislature

Rosetta spacecraft makes historic rendez-vous with comet   { ‘9:42 am’ the European Union’s comet-chasing spacecraft reached its destination }

Toronto doctors remove teen’s tumor without radiation or surgery   { They used ultrasound }

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“Offbeat“

Adelle and Ryan MacDonald say ‘I do’ on Gros Morne Mountain   { Gros Morne Mountain is the second highest peak on the island of Newfoundland. The couple and 35 friends and relatives hiked 4.5 hours in 27 degree [ that would be about 81°F ] heat ‘with no air conditioners’ to reach the summit, 800 metres above sea level for the ceremony on Saturday morning. }

Woman crashes into firehouse with python wrapped around her neck   { The New York woman was charged with reckless driving and larceny, accused of stealing the snake from a nearby store before she crashed }

Author slams Kardashians as ‘evil’ after 11-year-old loses $120 to Kim’s iPhone game   { A ‘New York Times best-selling author’ used the words “vile scumbag Kardashian pigs” on Twitter and facebook in an attempt to warn parents that her 11-year-old son had spent $120.00 in 2 days without realizing it. }

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“Most Viewed“

Ukraine crisis: Russia could be poised to invade, NATO says   { Yesterday we reported that prophecy expert John Hogue, a frequent guest on Coast to Coast a.m. -radio talk show, had blasted reportage of the Ukraine crisis saying we’re hearing only the half of the story that some manipulative so and so’s want us to hear. He believes that Vladmir Putin is acting a whole lot more reasonably than president Obama and western media are. He also said that there could be a nuclear war in about 3 years that could wipe out nearly all U.S. citizens and residents, and that it would be the fault of U.S. politicians and media whose mind set is stuck believing that the realities that rang true 40 years ago still apply today. I remember stories in the sixties where ill equipped Moroccan horsemen demonstrated their skills on horseback, believing they would have no problem pushing Israelis into the sea. I don’t think those horsemen ever got to Israel to test their theories against really big tanks – or to test their hundred year old rifles against Uzi’s. But I think that’s a decent parallel here.  }

Don Cherry takes to Twitter to vent about house auction mix-up

Australian commuters tip over train to free fellow passenger   { There’s video with this }

2 passenger jets diverted to Halifax airport after emergencies on board   { A United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey to Brussels, Belgium with 233 passengers aboard a Boeing 777, was diverted to Halifax after a small fire in the rear of the plane was dealt with quickly, but had filled the plane with smoke. About 2 minutes after the United Airlines jet landed, an Air Canada flight from Montreal, heading for Frankfurt, Germany with 165 passengers aboard a Boeing 767, landed due to a medical emergency. }

Susan Fennell, Brampton mayor, broke spending rules 265 times, audit says

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“Other“

Samsung, Apple agree to drop patent lawsuits outside U.S.

Buddha tattoos get Canadian teacher kicked out of Burma   { Burma [ now known as Myanmar ] is experiencing strife between Buddhists and Muslims. The Canadian, who teaches English in Hong Kong, and his girl friend were kicked out of Myanmar/Burma after a local person photographed the tattoos on his legs and posted them on Facebook. }

Japanese scientist embroiled in stem cell scandal found dead   { A Japanese scientist who co-authored high profile research papers which contained falsified results died Tuesday in an apparent suicide }

Green Party president resigns amid controversy over Gaza comments  { Paul Estrin, president of the Green Party of Canada, had posted in a blog that he supported Israel in its military action against Hamas in Gaza. The Green Party’s official policy is one of “engaged neutrality” that calls for both sides to cease hostilities. [ Canadians are sticklers for not appearing to have conflict of interest issues. Government employees can be fired for posting political banners on their private property during elections. This was meant to keep Politicians from forcing federal employees to campaign for them, but it’s been used in ways that we would call violations of free speech down here in the U.S. }

‘No deal’ without removing Gaza blockade, Palestinian delegation says

Fox drops $76B hostile bid for Time Warner

Canada-EU free trade deal clears major hurdle with agreement on final text

Readers decry Wal-Mart’s ‘puritanical’ attitude toward photos   { Yesterday’s story revealed a photo of a baby, wearing pants or pajamas, who was sitting on the floor with what might have been an empty beer bottle in her hands }

Readers say ‘no, thanks’ to Canadian World Cup bid

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“Video“

Take a tour of the Enola Gay, the U.S. plane that bombed Hiroshima   { The pilot of this aircraft, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, was institutionalized due to the trauma he suffered after he flew that mission. }

Bovine trombone serenade   { ‘A farmer performs Lorde’s hit Royals for his cows in Flint Hills, Kansas’ }

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“Local” / “New Brunswick”

Acadian congress celebrates history across 3 borders

Moncton illegal heavy oil dumb cost city over $54k

Endangered right whales to be tracked using autonomous gliders   { Robotic ‘gliders’ can follow the whales around. }

Eel Ground man dead after car crash   { a 20-year-old man who, according to RCMP officers, ‘was ‘not wearing a seat belt’ died in a car that went into a ditch in the Eel Ground First Nation. The driver and two other passengers survived. }

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{ Ready to push the ‘Publish’ button @ 12:14 pm Eastern Time ———djo——— }

Tuesday, August 5th, 2014.  -( 76°F / 24°C & Clear @ 10:30 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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“Updated”

Qatar Airways Flight QR23 passenger arrested over alleged hoax bomb threat   { A man was arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat, following a warning to the pilot of a possible device on the aircraft. }

Son of Canadians accused of stealing China secrets to be questioned   { A Canadian husband and wife who live in Dandong, China are being invesigated for suspected theft of military and intelligence information. Their son sent email to CBC news saying that he had received a call from the State Security Bureau asking him to come in for questioning.  There is a related story, “Chinese cyberattack hits Canada’s National Research Council” I remember this older story hitting the airwaves not long before we started trying to post these daily headlines here.  (( not knowing any real details at the moment, this one feels like the Chinese might have charged random Canadian citizens with spying in retaliation for Canadians charging them with ‘cyber spying’/cyber attacks. Just a feeling at the moment. )) }

Newfoundland mom upset Wal-Mart withheld ‘inappropriate’ baby photos   { A mother in central Newfoundland says she was surprised and upset when a Wal-Mart employee informed her that she couldn’t collect her photos because they were flagged as ‘inappropriate’ by a processing technician.  In the full story, one photo that was withheld shows a shirtless baby with pants or pajamas covering its bum, sitting on a floor holding what might be a beer bottle  in front of her (can’t read the label). Two related stories are posted here, “Minimum Wage Wars: Wal-Mart Canada” & “Wal-Mart employee fired after reporting dog in hot truck“. (( Wal-Mart Canada seems to be a little more careful about doing things that generate bad publicity than Wal-Mart in the USA. Canadians hear the rumours that Wal-Mart supervisors and Managers order employees to punch off the clock and get back to work and tell me, ‘Maybe that’s just one or two supervisors in one or two stores in the states, they couldn’t be like that up here-‘ but then Wal-Mart Canada just lost a huge lawsuit and have been ordered to pay quite a bit for closing down a store in Quebec after its employees voted to become unionized. )) (( &  Canadians might be more vigilant in defending their privacy rights than most U.S. citizens )) }

Firefighter’s family links suicide to PTSD, files for workers’ compensation   { The firefighter was never officially diagnosed with PTSD. This happened in Edmonton, Alberta,where  an Alberta law was passed in 2012 that says first responders diagnosed with PTSD do not have to prove that the condition was job related to get workers’ compensation. His family members believe that an incident he responded to in which ‘a little guy drowned’ at a public swimming pool was a turning point and may have led directly to his suicide. The article also mentions the ‘John Wayne syndrome- those who help people won’t ask for help when they need it themselves.’ }

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“Offbeat”

Big Bang Theory stars to get big bucks, $1M an episode for 3 years: reports

Pregnant squirrel trashes Montreal home and gives birth in sewing basket   { Sounds like a future Hollywood movie / Box Office Smash to me. }

Selfie, dubstep, bromance: Scrabble dictionary to get 5,000 new words

$500 charge for negative reviews doled out by New York hotel   { The hotel in Hudson, NY- has a policy of charging guests who post a negative review online after staying there a $500.00 fine (U$) A link to the hotel’s web site is posted inside this article. }

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“Most Viewed”

Burlington flood: 2 months worth of rain falls within hours

Girls, 9 and 10, missing from Aird Lake cottage overnight   { They were playing hide and seek. Aird Lake is in Eastern Ontario. — Still missing at noon Eastern Time, after about 16 hours. }

Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach called environmental disaster   { The accompanying photo looks like a breach in a levee around a HUGE pond with discoloured water and a moonscape inside the pond area. This is in British Columbia, and there is a complete ban on water consumption, swimming or cooking with water from taken here. Google Maps doesn’t know where this is, they want me to click on their suggestions for something in Utah, or a ‘Visit British Columbia’ link. }

Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach: helicopter flyover

Velella velella turn Tofino, B.C. shore into a sea of blue   { Velella velella are ‘jelly fish like’ creatures- looks like thousands of them washed up on beaches in Tofino, B.C. }

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“Other” { <— my distinction }

Temporary Israel-Hamas truce allows for Gaza blockade talks

1 killed and 17 injured in South African Earth Quake   { The magnitude 5.3 quake was centered in Orkney, 170 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. The man who died was killed when the wall of a disused mining building fell on him. }

730,000 have left Ukraine for Russia to escape fighting, UN says   { And Last night on Coast to Coast am, guest  John Hogue, an expert on Nostradamus and who has a very good record of predicting future events himself , said he believes the Ukrainians might have shot down the Malaysian passenger jet (by accident) but he doesn’t believe the news we’re getting from that area is factual. He said the fighting that disrupted the experts investigation was instigated by Ukrainians. }

Want to join rebel armies in foreign wars? In Canada, there’s little stopping you  { I haven’t read the full story, but- On first impressions = This headline bothers me a bit, after September 11, 2001, I heard a lot of Canadians complaining that, “Blame Canada-” was becoming a phrase they were mocking by repeating it in a sarcastic tone of voice. U.S. citizens and officials have a habit of pointing fingers at ‘outsiders’ rather than trying to own up to or even fix any problems themselves. }

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“Local / New Brunswick”  { If you want local news from a different locality, go to the web site and make like you’re in whatever locality you want to read about. }

Millville fire service restored after arson destroyed station

Roch Voisine headlines 2014 Order of New Brunswick class   { Roch Voisine is an Edmunston, N.B. born music star, he wrote the 2014 Canadian Olympic team anthem, Living out my dreams. The Order of New Brunswick inductees ‘represent the best of our province’ says the provincial Premier, David Alward. This year’s inductees include doctors, lawyers, community activists and volunteers. }

Horse racing industry criticizes lack of provincial help  

Tropical storm Bertha to mostly miss Atlantic Canada

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{ It’s a busy morning for news. Articles chosen, now proofreading at 12:30 pm }

{ ready to click the ‘Publish’ button at 12:56 pm }

———djo———

Monday, 04 August, 2014. -( 77°F / 25°C W/Scattered Clouds @ 1:30 pm in Ithaca, NY )-

{ 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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“Offbeat”

Whistler man wants Sea-to-Sky to become a musical highway   { There are musical notes painted in the driving lanes of highway shown }

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“Developing”

Europe marks 100 years since start of World War I   { There are several stories related to World War One }

Palestinian officials accuse Israel of of breaking ceasefire

Toledo lifts water ban after tests find no toxins

Death toll tops 390 after large earthquake in south China

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“Other lead stories: “

What happened after the Arab Spring? An update on 6 big uprisings

Planes can be hacked via inflight WiFi, researcher says   { & there are two related stories stating that Ottawa and the U.S. have lifted restrictions on use of electronic devices aboard passenger flights, starting with last November. Sounds like the bad guys want to keep people off center and scared to death. }

American Idol contestant Michael Johns dead at 35   { The Australian Singer was on American Idol in 2008 and voted off in the 8th round. He released an album in 2009. Cause of death was not released. }

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“Most Viewed”

Rescue of cat with head stuck in bird feeder being sabotaged   { An orange and white cat -mostly orange, white belly and forelegs- named Butterscotch, has been running around somewhere in Manitoba for a week with a bird feeder stuck on its head. The cat can see out of one eye and runs away from helpful people who are trying to save it. Rescuers complain that a man in the neighbourhood claps his hands and shines lights to scare the cat away when the rescuers come close. }

California mudslides: Thousands stranded after mountain roads blocked

Canada’s last airworthy Lancaster to leave for U.K. tour.   { Lancaster Bombers were used in World War Two- I got them confused with B-17’s – but no, they’re different. }

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“Local / New Brunswick”  { If you want local news from a different locality, go to the web site and make like you’re in whatever locality you want to read about. }

Biologists descent on Grand Lake for BioBlitz   { They want to count slime moulds , snails, frogs, fish and other species. }

Job security a dark cloud over Filipino gathering   { The Filipino Association of N.B. had a gathering of more than 200 Flipinos from across the Maritimes, but their celebrations were marred by concerns about the temporary foreign worker program.  — Some employers have abused the system and held foreign workers in virtual slavery. But the kind of abuse that most people are really angry about is when many employers, some of them big time employers of fast food chains, hire foreign workers on a temporary basis and claim there are no full time jobs for Canadians. Smaller employers say they can’t get Canadians to do the jobs these temporary foreign workers are happy to do. It looks like one faction inside the federal government wants to throw the baby out with the bathwater, more or less. }

Tropical storm Bertha could bring heavy rain to Nova Scotia.  { The southern part of Nova Scotia connects with New Brunswick, I didn’t know that until recently, I thought all of Nova Scotia was two islands close to the mainland. }

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{ Today was a quickie after a long night at work, it’s 3:25 pm here and I’m almost ready to hit the “Publish’ button }

———djo———

Sunday, August 3, 2014. -( 72°F / 22°C & Overcast in Ithaca, NT @ 10:30 am )-

{{ I’m late again getting to this, (by my own standards) so let me jump right into it ———djo———}}

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“Developing”

Strong earthquake kills dozens in southwest China  { Yunnan Province, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck in a remote, mountainous area of this province, killing at least 150 people. A school and other buildings collapsed (Posted at CBC/news at 8:56 am Eastern Savings Time) }

“Updated”

‘There’s nowhere safe in Gaza’: Strike near UN-run school kills 10, official says

“Lead stories”

Nelson Mandela was ‘completely intolerant of dishonesty,’ says former secretary

From Tony Clement to Homer Simpson: Who #StephenHarper follows on Twitter

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“Offbeat”

Carousels and ferris wheels, from New York to Gaza  { This is the only new story under offbeat so far today }

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“Most Viewed”

Boonstock festivalgoer dies of suspected drug overdose   { The Boonstock Music Festival relocated from Gibbons, Alberta to Penticton, B.C. for its 10th year. It’s billed as a major music festival and they expect about 8,000 people to show up. }

Ebola outbreak: Kent Brantly, infected U.S. aid worker, walks into Atlanta hospital

Carribbean Carnival parade route stabbing victim in stable condition   { The Caribbean Carnival in Toronto is a HUGE event. People in the parade dance the whole route wearing costumes that often sport twenty feet wingspans and maybe fifteen feet tall headdresses. This is also a good chance for Mayor Rob Ford to get in some cute photo ops with half naked dancers. }

Newborn dies after crash in London, Ont. Costco store killed sister   { 🙁  }

Burlington Skyway crash: Cleanup begins, closure continues

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“Other”

Tropical Storm Bertha unleashes heavy rain, wind on Caribbean

August long weekend 2014: What’s open and what’s closed   { One Canadian told me they really needed a Holiday in August so they created one. I think Saskatchewan (( or one of the western provinces )) is calling this Holiday (( Monday, August 4th )) “Terry Fox Day” }

Kwikwetiem band councillor calls for resignation of Chief Ron Giesbrecht   { I don’t know all the details, but I’m tempted to think that this Chief must be doing a good job of people are trying to generate a huge fuss over the fact that he collected some kind of ‘$800,000.00 Bonus’ for playing an important part in an $8,000,000.00 Land sale }

Toxins from Lake Erie algae suspected of fouling Toledo, Ohio tap water

Ottawa looks to ‘protect taxpayer money’ after chief’s $1M pay   { Like I said yesterday, if politicians really wanted to ‘protect taxpayer money’ they would admit that they do not need to collect taxes, that they have defrauded every single taxpayer since world war two, and that they could stop collecting taxes and deliver much better public services if they all of a sudden had an acute attack of honesty. Again, read CAFR1 dot com ( <—– Link, & be prepared to have to read through a lot of stuff there). }

Cree actor Michelle Thrush heads to Arctic with Greenpeace

Veld, Osheaga promise good parties but few female DJs in rotation   { ‘Veld’ is a music festival in Toronto, ‘Osheaga’ is a music festival in Montreal. ‘Montreal DJ Misstress Barbara explains why there are so few women DJs on deck.’ (( I think a fellow editor/writer for this news blog told me his ex-girl friend was DJ-ing to supplement her income around the time Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was topping the charts )) }

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“Must Watch” (( videos on the site ))

CBC News was there: Oka Crisis   { Oka was the site of a land dispute between Police and Mohawks in 1991 }

First World War soldiers’ art   { A rare historical collection of soldiers’ sketches and other art work was reported on last November, & is posted here as a video. “…reveals untold stories from the First World War”  There are currently a lot of reporters talking about the First World War, a couple are calling it another “Hundred Years War” }

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“New Brunswick”

Saint John’s 1st cruise ship of the season a ‘relief’ for tourism   { Saint John, New Brunswick often becomes confused for Saint John’s Newfoundland (( Newfoundland and Labrador are lumped together as one province, “N.L.” for short. Although “Newfies” are seen as a whole different subspecies of Canadians ((( “Holy Jumpin-” )))  Donald Sutherland is from St John, N.B.  &  Great Big Sea, the highly popular Celtic/Folk Rock band is from N.L. and its members are more likely to hang out around St John’s than St John. Confused? My job is done here… 😉 }

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{ Headlines chosen and a couple explanations in at 11:34 am EDST <— Do we still use that Eastern Daylight Savings Time acronym? }

{ 12:13 pm, ready to hit the “Publish” button  ———djo——— }

Friday, August 2, 2014. -(74°F / 23°C & Clear @ 10:00 am in Ithaca )-

Here are this morning’s headlines from CBC News. :  <— Link { These are not links, if you want to read the stories and/or see any video that might accompany the stories, go to the CBC.ca/news website }

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“Off Beat”

Bikini-wearing mom calls out body shaming bullies   { A 33-year-old mother of 5 went sunbathing [ doesn’t say where ] for the first time in 13 years when 2 men and 1 woman, pointed, laughed, and pretended to kick her. She posted a photo of herself on facebook. (( For perspective, she was not what I would have called ‘obese’ – I’ve seen much more ‘flab’ on young women wearing ‘middy’ blouses in a local mall.)) ((( & I’m not positive whether this happened in Canada or in the U.S. -But- We need a non lethal ray gun that will freeze bullies in the act of looking grotesque and making complete ‘arses’ of themselves.))) }

Not cool for cats: Buffalo area island dwellers say scram to abandoned felines  { Tonawanda Island in the Niagara River (an 85 acre island) – a marina owner complained that the cats were making a mess of the land ‘and even got into boats’ at his marina – ‘hundreds of abandoned cats’. A woman is ‘trapping the cats & having them spayed or neutered by vets, returning the adults to the island and putting the kittens up for adoption. }

Love at first flight: ‘Katie from Nova Scotia’ sought by Irish Romeo

School fires blogger over post about homophones, citing ‘gay agenda’     { “Timothy Torkidson was recently let go from his position as a social media specialist at the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah after writing an educational blog post called “Help with Homophones”.” (( Homophones, in case you forgot your grammar, are words that sound alike but mean different things, like flew and flu, red and read, see and sea, mail and male… )) He was fired by a school administrator for allegedly promoting “some kind of gay agenda”. }

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“Most viewed”

Reputed gang leader Ducarme Joseph fatally shot in Montreal

Missing N.B. man found dead in Alberta, closing 19-year-old case

Tory MP Eve Adams quits after bitter nomination race, cites health   { This has been followed by Canadian News outlets for some time. Eve Adams was accused of using inside influence to win a nomination from the Conservative Party of Canada. Part of the controversy behind her nomination and election stemmed from the involvement of her fiance, a former Conservative Party executive director, who, if I remember right, resigned over that controversy. I think she got the nomination and won the seat. Her ‘riding’ ( district ) was newly created in the Oakville-North Burlington area, west of Toronto, or part of the Toronto area, depending on who you listen to.  Ms Adams claims she is resigning for health reasons after falling in a slippery doorway in Ottawa. The creation of her  riding ( U.S. people would call it a district ) was at least mildly controversial with opposition politicians claiming it was created after careful research to assure the Conservative Party another representative in Parliament. There is a related story entitled, “Conservative nominations raise odds of early 2015 election” I’ll let you go to the CBC web site if you want to dig deeper into this one. }

How Marc Emery turned to marijuana activism   { One link to an interview involving Marc Emery says, “How he went from ‘Boy Wonder’ to become Canada’s “Prince of Pot”. He became an activist in 1968 and worked to help elect Pierre Trudeau to the Prime Minister’s Position (I almost wrote “Prime Ministership”) and he’s spent the past five years in U.S. Prison for trying to get marijuana use legalized. ( I believe he wants to see it legalized in both the U.S. and Canada.) He changed political party affiliations a couple times, Ran as a Libertarian Party candidate for a seat from London, Ontario. And he ran for a seat in British Columbia in 2001 as the Marijuana Party of B.C.’s president and candidate. He also helped form the Freedom Party of Ontario. ((( And I’ve spent way too much time researching this one. ))) }

Israel-Hamas conflict: Paul Hunter’s 7 days in Gaza

Burlington Skyway closed all weekend as engineers assess damage   { My friend in New Brunswick sent me photos of the crash after I posted yesterday that I couldn’t tell where the accident happened, it happened on the bridge (?) or at least in the elevated section of the highway, not on the ground, not someone slamming into a bridge support. }

Huge waves detected in Arctic waters for 1st time

‘Doug Ford is lying,’ Toronto police chief says, threatening lawsuit   { Doug Ford is the Mayor of Toronto’s brother and an elected member of the Toronto City Council. Rob Ford is Toronto’s Mayor. }

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“Other”

Peter MacKay skipping Canadian Bar Association’s annual conference   { Peter MacKay is the ‘Minister of Justice’ who has gotten in trouble for calling his ex-girlfriend a dog (after she left the Conservative Party to join the Liberals) and, more recently, some people were upset about the wording he used when he sent Holiday messages to Federal Employees (Mothers on Mothers Day and Fathers on Fathers Day). Those who were upset thought he was telling them that Fathers were more important than Mothers, that mothers were good at changing diapers and washing dishes and fathers had the responsibility of seeing that their children were properly educated and brought up right to assume a decent, productive role to contribute to the future of their country and this world. }

When Canada went to war: The story behind our involvement in WWI

China factory blast kills 68 at car parts facility

‘I could have killed him,’ Bill Clinton says of Osama bin Laden in 2001 recording   { In a recording made ‘less than 36 hours before al-Qaeda hijackers would board four airliners for attacks on the World Trade Center  and Pentagon.’ Bill Clinton said he passed on an opportunity to take Osama bin Laden “out” because the attack would have destroyed a small town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and probably killed 300 innocent civilians. [ I better bite my tongue on this one. Pilot friends tell me those hijackers could not have possibly flown those jets with such precision and there is a LOT of evidence that the hijacking was a “slight of hand” cover story meant to lead us away from the real cause of the buildings’ collapse, but have it blamed on ‘terrorists’ so evil men with a manipulative agenda could get people to voluntarily surrender their legal rights & …. ] <—> Don’t get me started. }

Ordinary Russians back Putin, Kremlin’s view of Malaysia Airlines MH17 tragedy

Why Texas Gov. Rick Perry may run again for president

Soccer goal death of Ontario teen adds to calls for tip-proof nets

More time driving increases obesity risk, study suggests

Put down that pop, junior — it could affect your memory

B.C. teachers’ strike: CBC readers slam government $40 a day per child offer

First Nations Transparency Act may do more harm than good: Hayden King

Legendary Ojibwa sniper unsung hero of WWI  { Ojibwa [ “O- jibway” ] is the name of a First Nations Tribe. WWI is that horrible mess created in 1914 that some claim led us down the road of ruin to where we are today… }

Controversial ‘Caucasians’ shirt becomes a hit on native reserves   { See photo of shirt copied and pasted from CBC article }

Pope Francis’s happiness tips resonate with CBC readers   { “Rid yourself of negative things quickly” and achieve “a healthy sense of leisure”. Looks like followers of CBC news on Twitter tweeted in favor of this message. }

Toronto teen gets over ex-boyfriend by photoshopping Beyoncé into their photos

Reggae, eh? Canadian band Magic! breaks No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100

Batman creator’s comic book collection up for auction online

World’s largest crow shark fossil surfaces in Manitoba

Amazon tribe’s 1st contact with modern civilization revealed in video

Tesla stock soars after Elon Musk pledges 100,000 cars a year

Mortgage apathy, Twitter stock soars & ‘Minuum’ taps into a trend: BUSINESS WEEK WRAP

Wind Mobile keen for investor with deep pockets

Cereal sales get soggy as breakfast tastes evolve   { I was happy to see that one huge manufacturer / packager of cereal went away from G.M.O. ingredients recently. I did see that, didn’t I? }

Polar bear wins tug of war with Nunavut man over beluga   { Nobody in their right mind would argue with a polar bear unless they were safely inside some kind of bunker or hovering 20 feet above the animal with a machine gun or grenade launcher. — A First Nations fisherman hooked a beluga whale and a swimming polar bear came along and grabbed the small whale and swam off with it. There is video. My Flash Player crashed so I don’t have to watch this. }

Ottawa looks to ‘protect taxpayer money’ after chief’s $1M pay   { If politicians want to ‘protect taxpayer money’ they should admit that they have been stealing from taxpayers all along, that they could stop collecting taxes and deliver more and better services than they currently claim are supported solely by taxpayer money. Read CAFR1 dot Com  <—- Link. }

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“New Brunswick / Local”  (( In my research this morning I discovered that more than one page had local news from different Provinces / sections of the country. Maybe I get this feed because I clicked on “New Brunswick” from a menu of areas, provinces and districts and not because of a cookie that might still be active in this browser since I was visiting up there with this laptop in tow. ))

2 dogs dead after horrifying off-leash attack in Fredericton

Blueberry growers feel squeezed after N.S. company gets land

N.B. auto insurance rates higher than accident prone N.L.

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(( With no comments or research this would have been done at 11:22 am ))

((( Not bad –  I started late, put up more headlines than usual, did not comment on everything and finished here at 12:45 pm )))

(((( Finished proofreading and everything that went with this at 1:11 pm ))))

———djo———

Thursday, July 31, 2014 -( 61°F / 16°C @ 9:30 am & raining in Ithaca )-

This morning’s headlines from CBC.ca/news : { These are not links, they’re hints of what the CBC thinks are most Newsworthy this morning. }

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“Offbeat”:

Dexter the cat rescued from debris of burned-out warehouse

No jokes, all plot: YouTuber strips the funny from Seinfeld and Friends

Say cheese! 12 great celebrity photobombs

$1M wording mistake leads to refund of 2,574 Winnipeg photo radar fines

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“Most Viewed”

Marijuana advocate Marc Emery vows ‘political revenge’ against Tories  { “Tories” refers to the Conservative Party of Canada, who are now in power with a “Majority Government” under Stephen Harper, Prime Minister. I thought that if one party did not get at least 50% + 1 of the popular vote either the other two might form a coalition government and share power, as long as they had more than 50% together, or the party with the most votes would have to form a coalition/partnership with one of the other parties. Nope, not up there in Canada, that’s a European model. If the party with the most votes has something like 37% of the seats in Parliament, they form the government, they call this a ‘minority government,’ & that might not last a full five years, I think it’s five years-? And they have to pass laws and do stuff that does not anger the other two strongest parties (right now I think the Green Party might have one seat? One “MP” ((member of parliament)) / representative. I’ll have to ask somebody.) If a budget bill is not approved they might have to call on the “Governor General” (Representative of the Queen, I think this person, at least lately, is always a Canadian citizen chosen by the Prime Minister and I think somebody has to approve this person for that position before it is final.) When the prime minister calls on the Governor General (or “G.G.”) and asks to have Parliament dissolved, and gets the approval, they set a date, usually within a month, or just slightly longer than a month. The current ‘Tory’ government would be scheduled to expire next year, 2015, unless somebody, probably enough somebodies, call for and pass a no-confidence vote or too many sitting MPs and/or Ministers and/or Senators get caught with their hands in the wrong cookie jars or something like that (Senators are appointed, not elected; -appointed by the sitting Prime Minister) Sitting Prime Ministers sometimes call for an election when they believe their chances are really good to wing more seats than last time, or hang on to enough seats to remain in control, if they see something ominous down the road ahead.. Most of the Canadians I know can’t wait for a change to get rid of this prime minister and his lackeys. My friends up there claim they know too many people who would vote for a dead goat as long as it was a registered member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Others, like most of the people I know, wouldn’t vote for anybody or anything Conservative if their lives depended on it. But then, I think I did meet a few people up there who believed they had reason to hate and never vote for any member of one party or another, and the scales are not quite balanced, but I got to realize that people everywhere have reasonable and sometimes anti-reasonable ‘reasons’ for their political likes and dislikes. This is the lead story, their are several links to earlier stories featuring Marc Emory below the main teaser. }

Girl, 15, dies after accident on Bradford soccer field  { Bradford is north of Toronto, Ontario, and the soccer goal with its netting fell over on her. The metal post is what apparently did the damage. Police don’t know how it could have happened. }

Fire in the sky: ‘Apocalypse’ thunderstorm rolls into Yellowknife  { Storm clouds mixed with smoke from wild forest fires made for some eerie photographs and video. If you want to, go to the CBC News web site this article has some eerie photographs that don’t involve lightening or pouring rain. }

Summer anomaly brings chilly days to residents between sweltering coasts  { Weird Weather”: Hotter than usual on the coasts, cooler than usual in the middle. }

Gaza conflict: Israel calls up 16,000 more reserves { “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel will destroy the Hamas tunnel network in the Gaza Strip “With or without a ceasefire,-” (and more) I’m interested in the matter of fact way this is reported. Definitely not Fox News. I’m also wondering if the order these links appear on the CBC site are planned, or just happen depending on which story came to their web people and when. }

Seattle cop issues 80% of city’s marijuana tickets in 2014 { One officer issued 66 of the 83 tickets issued in the first half of 2014 and was reassigned to something else inside the department. The Chief of Police said that changes in the marijuana law were ‘Silly’. }

Winnipeg armed standoff ‘resolved’ police give no further details  { Winnipeg police received information that someone was threatening to harm police officers and himself, surrounded the house and after a “17 hour standoff” the situation was ‘resolved’ I don’t have any more details either. }

Mr Big stings: Supreme Court to rule on admissibility of evidence  { A “Mr Big Sting” involves police officers pretending to be recruiting someone to join a criminal organization. The ‘Mr Big’ / Crime boss supposedly wants to meet the ‘perpetrator’ in person and hear his version of the crimes he committed, then the cuffs and badges come out and all the cops pretending to be bad guys are ready to give testimony about the ‘confessions’ obtained in this manner (as well as video evidence which might not always be admissible, depending on the judge in the case?) The Supreme Court of Canada is listening to arguments and probably asking each other for opinions. It may be interesting to find out what they decide and why- }

Ukraine conflict: Investigators reach Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site   { Yesterday, the investigators couldn’t get to the crash site because there was armed conflict too close to the site, happening between the Ukrainian Loyal troops and the Russian sympathizers ((Or sympathizers mixed in with Russian Army infiltrators? I don’t know for sure- We may never know. )) But then, most of you already read, saw or heard this story. }

Bacon Nation: Toronto restaurant caters to bacon-loving foodies  { I’m not sure whether it was in Canada- but I heard on the television news one time I was up there, One restaurant had anybody who ordered special items from their menu sign a waiver, releasing the restaurant from liability if the customer died from a heart attack and the hamburger or whatever else they ate seemed likely to have triggered that heart attack. Canadians like their bacon. }

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Sleeping in darkness improves effectiveness of breast cancer drug

Can whales be healthy and happy in an aquarium? Scientists weigh in  { A friend from Connecticut treated my daughter and me to a trip to the Mystic Aquarium where we watched one of the shows they put on indoors with dolphins and a couple varieties of small whales, all of whom seemed happy to do tricks and show off for the people there. We went in early and were allowed to walk around and take any photographs we wanted to. My friend had an Olympus OM-2 with a flash unit that ran on 4 AA batteries and whined while it was charging. When one of the dolphins who was playing in the rather large indoor pool heard the whining, he or she looked at us, and with a big smile on his or her face jumped at lest six feet out of the water, right at us. My friend’s flash hadn’t finished recharging so he missed that shot. But it felt to me like that Dolphin was enjoying himself. After the show Rachel wanted to get closer to the Dolphins again. There was a whale we couldn’t see making interesting noises and my friend asked one of the trainers what that was all about. The trainer, an energetic young woman with a delighted look in her eyes, said, “Oh, that’s [whatsiname]. the Beluga Whale. He’s complaining because we didn’t let him come out here and show off with the others, it’s his turn next time.”  I had gone there during a rough time in my life with a serious case of the ‘Why Me?’s- feeling like I might never find anything to feel happy about again in my life, and just being in that area with those Dolphins and Whales, I felt amazingly good for a change. My friend had read books by Dr John C Lilly who had done research with Dolphins and later, we heard about ‘swimming with Dolphins’ programs (in which patients, usually kids with chronic health issues get to swim with Dolphins and hyper vigilant adults who protect kids from dolphins and dolphins from kids, and either it was the Dolphins’ ‘radar’ or ‘sonar’ -but something  works and these kids get healthier and sometimes really bad problems ‘go away’). My friend told me he’d heard one researcher say she believed these Dolphins chose to do what they were doing. One animal ‘psychic’ said performing Dolphins volunteer for their life and love what they’re doing. And when he told me that, I remembered the trip to that Aquarium and yeah, it felt like the Dolphins and Whales who were there loved what they were doing. Maybe they took on the job of ‘beaming good vibrations’ to people they took a liking to? I got the silly idea that they came from a higher civilization to ease along toward our own Spiritual growth. }

Alison Redford’s flight scandal ‘defies explanation’ ally says  {  Alison Redford was the Conservative Premier of Alberta, a Conservative strong-hold of a province out west, with the oil sands and all that. She resigned amid accusations that she’d misused her privileges, over spent on items for personal use with taxpayer money, and over used the government aircraft flight privileges. Last night there was something on the CBC web site about her booking fictitious passengers as part of her party so she and her entourage could have a whole plain to themselves after the fictitious passengers didn’t show up. Opposition types say Albertan taxpayers are ‘justifiably upset’ and defenders seem to believe she didn’t do anything that others from all political parties up there haven’t done before. I don’t know- I’m an American (as if Canada wasn’t part of North America?) I’m not in Alberta. The oil sands lovers up there claim they’re trying to save the province’s economy, and coincidentally, the whole country’s economy while anti oil sands people say they’re killing the country under the pretext of saving it. Don’t get me started on Fracking…. But Alison Redford? I don’t know enough about her to form an opinion.  }}

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“Analysis”

Russia-U.S. relations are chilly, but is this a Cold War?

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“Local” (?)  { I still think I get New Brunswick news here in New York State because there might be a cookie in this browser that thinks I’m still up there, over there, visiting. 🙂 }

Growlers to be sold at 3 NB Liquor stores.   { “Growlers” are 64 ounce ‘jugs’ of beer produced by small specialty brewers. They used to be able to sell these ‘growlers’ to people who came for a tour at their small independent breweries. A provincial law passed recently, required small time brewers to sell 10,000 litres of their beer in province-owned liquor stores before they would be allowed to sell their “growlers” at their breweries. Some of these breweries do not produce that much beer in a year. So now I’m not sure whether they will be allowed to sell their stuff at their breweries or not, but the article goes on to say that if the pilot program is successful, it will be expanded from 3 stores to 10 or 15. }

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— It’s 12:14 pm and I might have spent a lot more time on this one little task than I thought I would – I think yesterday’s similar exercise netted me more praise than I expected, and if you think this is a waste of our time, let me know. Thanks-

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2014. -( 61°F / 16°C & Mostly Cloudy @ 9:58 am in Ithaca, New York State )-

To be fair, I got these headlines from CBC dot CA / News.  <— Link

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“Offbeat”

Ira Glass tweets ‘Shakespeare sucks,’ the internet promptly explodes

Beaver blamed after tree hits car on highway ‘still at large’

Was that a UFO above Toronto last weekend?

Family Guy meets the Simpsons in extended trailer for crossover episode.

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“New Brunswick” { since I connected with the CBC website with this laptop one time while visiting somebody in New Brunswick, the internet must believe I’m still there. }

*Shale gas protesters sentenced to 15 months for violent clash with RCMP { *** Jim talked with some First Nations people up there who were sure that some of the fires that disabled obsolete police cruisers were started by angry ‘forest people’ (we might know them as leprechauns or angry faeries or ‘elementals’). Others believe the RCMP set their own cruisers on fire in order to get newer and better ones.*** }

Red bracelets thanking the RCMP being sold in Moncton { A high profile case in Monctor, NB hit the airwaves a couple months ago. A “troubled” teenager shot five RCMP officers, 3 of them died. Our real ‘died in the wool hardcore conspiracy buffs’ immediately claimed, ‘this has all the earmarks of somebody who’d been programmed by MK-Ultra types and activated to go on a rampage and kill police officers’ — But the people in Moncton, New Brunswick do not believe there is an evil, twisted plot by a dark ops group of ‘Empathically-Challenged Wannabe String-pulling Secretive Elitists’ & want to show that they appreciate being protected by Serve and Protect type officers of the law. Meanwhile, officers of the law in the USA are forming groups and calling themselves “Oath Keepers” who believe they have pledged to protect the population of the USA “From all enemies, foreign and domestic” and will not fire on unarmed civilians if ordered to. (( Would superior officers giving orders to fire on innocent, unarmed civilians then become one of those domestic enemies?)) I think the really scary part is that so many of them believe they just might be ordered to fire on unarmed civilians. }

Norovirus confirmed in Bathurst’s Chaleur Regional Hospital { Bathurst is in Northern New Brunswick. A college or university up there wants to close down their school of nursing. }

N.B. abortion access prompts St. John’s demonstration.  { This was an anti-abortion demonstration, I remember when a friend of mine wanted to stop at an anti abortion demonstration on State Street here in Ithaca and have the demonstrators sign petitions stating that they were ready to support the desperate mothers (regardless of any addictions and/or other problematic conditions) for at least 18 years and support any child that mother might have for 18 years (again, regardless of any health problems, physical or ‘other’) or until that child graduated from a college or university of the child’s choice (( at the demonstrators’ expense )) or, for the child’s entire life if he or she tested positive for any one of a number of “Challenges” such as intellectually or physical challenges or disabilities. He was ready to shout, ‘You do this and I’ll believe you’re actually committed to your cause.’ His fiancée at the time threatened to leave him. That relationship didn’t last very long. I can not take sides on this issue. I believe everybody has to make that decision for themselves (Preferably ‘Herself’) & I don’t know if anybody knows all the psychological, emotional, and spiritual implications and consequences of either choosing to abort or stopping someone else from making that choice. I’m really glad I’m not a woman. (& a couple women friends have accused me of being a coward for not supporting their side of this issue.  Quite a few, as a matter of fact, from both sides.)  }

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“Analysis” The 100-year conflict that is the First World War still rages: Brian Stewart { This is the first time I’ve heard the First World War being referred to as another ‘Hundred Years War’. This could be depressing. Maybe most earthling humans never will be able to learn from the mistakes of their fathers and mothers? —— Of course they will, we are on an upward growth spurt as I write this. The ‘bad guys’ are making a last ditch, desperate effort to keep us all off balance so they can manipulate us into a constant state of fear, then, they believe, we will be most ‘manageable’. }

SARS was ‘wake-up call’ that could prevent Ebola spread to Canada, doctor says  { I visited somebody in the Greater Toronto Area while the SARS scare was going full blast. I saw the signs at the hospitals that basically read “If you’re sick, don’t come here”. I can’t believe that anybody, especially a doctor, would have the audacity to say anything like, ‘SARS just might have been a good thing’. Any doctor who said “Death is a really good cure for Cancer” would not be going much farther into the ‘stupid zone’ than that. }

There are 3 more featured headlines about the Ebola Outbreak and “6 ways to avoid illness when travelling’ from January 29th posted in the cue. { The conspiracy guys believe this a plot to convince everybody to line up for drugs we’re supposed to believe will keep us safe so the MK-Ultra Elitists can distribute an inoculation that will kill off billions of the ‘great unwashed’ so ‘they’ can tighten their grip on this world’s population, strengthen their mind-control abilities, and keep just enough ‘useless eaters’ around to be whipped into subservience, & slavery. But remember the palmistry guy from a couple days ago? (scroll down) -He is sure that the manipulating control freaks will lose their grip and fight among themselves, and kill each other off before they can see their evil twisted plots reach fruition. }

{ I would like to add a bit of “Prayer Works”, or for the militant agnostics out there: Scientists don’t know how it works, but “Positive Intention Works!” }

———djo———

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014.

In the second half of Coast to Coast a.m. tonight, George Noory is interviewing Vernon Mahabal (<— Link to Palmistry Website ). My first instinct would have been, “Well- I guess I’ll skip this one.”

But I’m working, too busy to change the station, and he’s making sense.

“Palmistry?” But he’s talking about trends that he sees coming. The message is very positive, although he sees a possible break-up of the United States into several regional governments with two basic polarities dividing those regional “Provinces” (he called them provinces a couple times) Those two groups will be “A”— [my distinction, he didn’t label them anything] The “Go-Getters” Materialistic, Patriotic, Nationalistic (( ESTJ’s)) and “B” — The more Creative, Perceptive, Community Minded (( Supportive, Nurturing )) types.

He says that the sneaky, demonic, string pulling, hidden, poisonous types who have been trying to run this Country and the World will lose their grip and in-fighting will destroy each other.

We have moved into a much more Positive 18 year cycle, where most people’s idea of prosperity will be a lot different than it was from the 40’s to the 80’s. There may be some rough times ahead as the bad guys try to bring it all down, and the poisonous old ways die hard, but we will emerge stronger.There will be a kind of Hopi philosopy, “Create your own occupation and you will find your Freedom”, that more and more people will adopt and will lead to empowerment.

We will add a link to the bottom of this page, where you can go find his site after this article is way down the list somewhere. (( We will probably add a link to Coast to Coast am, too, where you can go and sign up as an ‘insider’ ((( Not Free – they will charge you $ but you can sign up for a short time and download tons of interesting shows from their archives, I think they have 5 years of past shows available to subscribers ))) & if you do subscribe tonight’s downloaded podcasts may be a real good place to start. ))

———djo———