Friday, October 7, 2016 — 58°C / 14°F & raining @ 11:30 pm in Ithaca —
New York Times’ Latest ‘scientific’ estimates of who has the best chance of winning this 2016 Presidential Election Circus —
— The New York Times is delving into who of the HillaRump Circus has the best chances to live in the White House [ If it’s still there when this election is History- ]
This is part of the NT page above the link. What’s represented here are estimates of how the voters in states and sometimes districts inside those states have changed their voting allegiance since 2004.
— If this is impossible to read on your screen or device go click on the link above and see it for yourself.
I thought I might toss some optimism into this mix, “No act of kindness is ever small.”
— & Here’s a message I do not want to send subliminally or otherwise: [ “Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” Now there’s a statement that could scare anyone out of voting this time. ] I really thought this would be a nice positive message about doing nice things for people and animals whether that might advance your career or get you elected or whatever —
— I think the above tweet reflects the tweeter’s personal preferences and is not intended to be a statement that reflects the mood of the nation at this time.
— The last time I heard an explanation of how ranked voting might work —> In this case with 5 choices, the first choice would get 5 points, second choice would get 4 points, third choice would get 3 points, fourth choice would get 2 points, and fifth choice would get 1 point. — I’d like to be a ‘fly on the wall’ catching all the comments and getting a good feel for the atmosphere at a super honest session with people manually checking though hard copy votes in a case like this. I’m thinking hard copy votes might be an attempt to make sure the president of Diebold Corp. hasn’t tried to hand another election to a close friend of his. There was some fairly strong evidence that the second coronation of G.W. Bush was rigged in that manner. ‘Technicians’ would appear at a critical polling station, check the machines for glitches, hand the parties responsible for the count a piece of paper with the results scrawled down and say, “oh, sorry, because we did find major problems with the inner workings of these machines, we had to get the results, here, and then we had to reset the machines back to zero – so this is the only record of this election that you have.” – And the ‘technicians’ walked away and vanished, never to be heard from or seen again.
This tweet really caught my attention, I had to look up where in the world Patagonia actually is.
— Wikipedia says, “Patagonia is the sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Chile and Argentina.” – Looks like most of it is in Argentina.
And this cool photograph – my guess is it was taken on a brilliantly foggy day – looks like an island floating in the sky.
— & I will leave you with this. Have a wonderful night and an even better tomorrow.
— One woman was killed by a Pit Bull in Montreal last year.
— So they passed a law making it illegal for any ‘new’ Pit Bulls to come into Montreal. And existing Pit Bulls can stay if their owners pay astronomical licensing fees, and keep their pets muzzled when outside the home, even on an enclosed balcony.
— How many people were attacked and/or killed by Human Beings in Montreal last year?
— Shouldn’t they ban Human Beings from Montreal? And levy insane fines on the ones who stay, so everybody gets the message and realizes the intent is to encourage you all to move somewhere else?
— Are Human Men the most violent creatures on this planet? Should Montreal ban all Men from entering and levy high fees on any men who stay there? Would that solve the problems? — And maybe we should just muzzle them all?
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 — 85°F / 29°F — Too hot with too much bright sunlight in Ithaca, NY @ 1:45 pm —
Ireland Jailed 3 Banksters. Why haven’t we?
— If I took the time to get large screen shots of everything I thought was important in news feeds and twitter feeds today I’d never get to sleep.
U.S. Intelligence says WikiLeaks is not a political arm of Russian Intelligence.
— Those who believe – “It’s not illegal if you don’t get caught” want to vilify all good reporters. WikiLeaks is not your enemy. Dishonest, megalamaniacal, micro-managing – manipulative, power-crazy politicians ARE.
– Wish I’d said that – [ Wow ]— Defining yourself is an act of violence? Holy Cow! Why didn’t I think of that? Calling yourself a Republican is vilifying all Democrats? Calling yourself a Democrat is demonizing all Republicans? “Ego is the human soul desperately trying to believe that it is limited to a human body and one short lifetime” < Jim Wellington > – That’s how I got mixed up with all this blogging and stuff – I’d always been a writer, I thought it was an obsession – This guy muttered one phrase at a writers’ workshop and blew a thousand of my most worrisome misconceptions all to hell. – No, I’m a truth seeker, embracing any truth I can verify and wanting to share that with all the rest of us lost and exhausted pilgrims desperately hungry and thirsting for Truth, Mercy, Spirituality, Personal Evolution – This is not an obsession, it’s a calling. I want to share everything that makes me feel good about being alive with everybody else who’s starving for peace of mind.
– This might be politically motivated nonsense, but it’s too funny to pass up.
— If reformed Republicans really want believe in themselves again and sleep nights (or days if their biological clocks are half as mixed up as mine is) – They’d be better off seeking asylum in the Green Party. Remember a Y2K bumper sticker with an animal that was half Donkey and half Elephant – a two headed ‘push me pull you’? Calling them “Republicrats”? Why keep voting for the same old [stinky stuff]? Haven’t we had enough of this nonsense? My wonderful, adorable daughter says, “Jeeze – it looks like everybody’s trying to drive back all human progress to the madness that started the first world war-” And she’s too young to remember the first Desert Storm idiocy.
“When she became a butterfly all the caterpillars shunned her-” ?
— Caterpillars can’t understand butterflies. Morons with their heads stuck up their Ice-Holes can’t understand anyone who isn’t as stupid and destructive and greedy as they are. Donald J Trump does not have a prayer of being able to understand anybody who believes in Bernie Sanders [ at least, not in this life ]. People who believe they have a right to destroy everybody else’s quality of living in pursuit of a little profit will never understand conservationists. Frackers will never understand anyone who wants to be able to drink pure, unpoisoned water. Oil Company executives will never want to understand why anybody would ever want to share renewable energy that costs almost nothing and provides better energy, more and better jobs, healthier people and a lot less stress than gasoline, gas and oil – { at least, not until it’s too late and they realize they’ve shot themselves in their own crotches }.
On a less serious note –
— I thought it might be a good time to post a photo of a beautiful world that is not yet spoiled and poisoned by the [ snar ] coming to California from the Fukushima disaster. People who are not muzzled by lying unethical political motivation are warning that Fukushima’s radiation has already poisoned too much of the Pacific Ocean, we might already be beyond any hope of undoing the effects of some of the deadliest poison known to humans – { unless those rumoured aliens/angels come to our aid with their radiation eating technologies. Pray for help, guys – }
This is a tribute to Jim and Cathi’s cat, Domino.
— Rest In Peace, Domino – you taught me that cats can be fun to play with.
Now that’s one serious looking guard dog. { he said, flawlessly elucidating the painfully obvious – }
— Like I said, there’s much too much important looking information flying around the Tweet-Us-Sphere to ignore today. Most of it is probably based in truth. But, like always, don’t take my word for it. Get out there and investigate! Use your brain before it doesn’t even help your cranium in its function as hat rack.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016 — 63°F / 17°C & cloudy in Ithaca @ 1 pm Eastern Time.
This is from a tweet concerned with flouride in the water. I’m more worried about fracking.
— Somebody needs to explain to me how anyone who wants to keep their drinking water clean, pure and uncontaminated is vilified & Those who are actively poisoning that water are not considered Terrorists. Frackers and Flouride advocates should be tried for crimes against humanity. & Crimes against the planet should be considered a step above crimes against humanity.
Wednesday, 29 July, 2015 -( 62˚F / 17˚C & clear at the moment @ 6:05 am here in Ithaca, New York & I don’t have time to check on New Brunswick and Alaska right now. )-
“DreamCat” – The Character that started us into developing out Multi User Role Playing Game- When we saw how easily we could finally get into world building and character building- but then life hit us with its little surprises and decided we had to work our tails off in the real world and left us nowhere near enough time and energy to finish that world and start letting civilians play around in it. (NOT YET—) Rolled in the demo section of our world building stuff.
I thought a new theme for this blog would be a good idea. But WordPress and its affiliates want to bleed as much money from anybody as they can and make their free blogs less and less ‘Elegant’ and harder to surf through. I might end up changing this theme again vey soon (like maybe after I get some sleep?) because I freekin hate non serif fonts.
I could almost believe they force developers to make their free themes as featureless and hard to use as possible.
There were a couple themes that came close to being ‘acceptable’ But there was something not quite right about each of them.
So I’m ‘composing’ this article in the ‘2014’ theme and the only thing I like about it is the captions under the ‘media’ – it’s all left justified instead of centered. But the font is going to drive me to distraction.
Monday, 27 July, 2015 – No wonder I never get anything of my own done-
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s bid to buy votes and convince voters that the opposition wants to take food out of their babies’ mouths is a lie. The Harper Government has ‘Clawed Back’ the ‘old’ child benefits and substituted this propaganda campaign, without explaining that the new benefits are taxable, so the average benefit would amount to a little over $13.00 Canadian money per month – —djo—
& So far, nobody has won a “Nice Job” from me by telling me that the ‘other’ progressive law recently passed in France makes it illegal to design planned early obsolescence into products.
Sunday, 26 July, 2015 -( 77˚F / 25˚C & Partly Cloudy @ 8:00 pm in Ithaca === 61˚F / 16˚C w/ light rain in New Brunswick, Canada @ 9:00 pm ADT &&& 68˚F / 20˚C & Mostly Cloudy in North Pole, Alaska @ 4:00 pm Alaska Time )-
Jim W found this in a box that he and Cathi H hadn’t found & opened since they moved in September of 2013 – he scanned it and sent it to me, and Yeah- I’m gonna run with it-
From the Toronto Star – Saturday, June 5, 2004 – Front pPage of B Section “National Report” : — The caption under the photo that day was, “A member of Canadians for Equal Marriage, right, gets hit by a stick during a rally for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper in Guelph this week. Harper supports the concept of traditional marriage.”
Saturday, 15 November, 2014 -( 31˚F / +0˚C – & ‘partly cloudy’ out there @ 10:30 am near Ithaca )- -( 32˚F / +0˚C – With Light Snow making it beautiful outside @ 11:30 am Closer to Halifax —jda—)- — { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }
{ —jda—‘s blog disappeared from the list of NaBloPoMo blogs on the ‘BlogHer’ page — Jim W went over 50,000 words at NaNOWriMo On Tuesday, Now = 60,938 words. & We really are trying to trim away stuff that maybe has been here too long. Trouble is, we think it may be important. —djo— }
Anti-Pipeline protests in Montreal.“Justice For The 43 Students – 20 November, 2014 – 6:30 pm Eastern Time – Radio Canada – Montreal.”
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{ This is from the ‘Tweet-Us-Sphere’ : }
Three Tweets Arrived Like This:fr0g5 has to be one of our favourites. A lot of good stuff comes from that source. Montreal Police here to ruin a peaceful demonstration? —djo—
Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “Police charge man who impersonated a sergeant on Remembrance Day; Vancouver Mayor upset w/ social media ban on election day; U.S., EU override Australia to put climate change on G20 agenda; & Land of the giants: Massive sculptures popping up around the world.”
5 Tweets in a row, from CBC news up to Half Past Human- —djo—
Today’s lead article on the CBC /news/ page is about Police charging the man who impersonated a sergeant, wearing a military uniform and wearing medals that were not his on Rememberance Day. You may remember earlier articles which reported that after the first CBC News article identified him as a phony, he and wife began receiving threats. I don’t know how severe those threats might have been. There was some debate over how serious a crime this could have been, impersonating a soldier. Many were shocked to believe that anybody would actually enforce this law. —jim w—
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“Australians bury heads in sand to mock government climate stance” -From an article listed earlier in “Offbeat”. —djo—
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Today Show Australia host wore the same suit for a year?
“Offbeat”
Australia’s Today Show host wore the same suit for a year, and no one noticed { * I wore variations on the same uniform every day for several years and nobody said anything about my taste in work clothes. If a woman host wore the same dress two days in a row, that would be noticed. I’ve seen jokes where a woman’s closet had thousands of all kinds of dresses etc. in various colors and lengths and styles, and her huband had hundreds of identical suits. * —djo— }
Rosetta mission scientist apologizes for wearing ‘sexist’ shirt covered in half-naked cartoon women { * From yesterday * }
Janina Kolkiewicz wakes up in morgue hours after she is pronounced dead { * That was from yesterday.* —djo— }
Oddly shaped ‘suspect Cheetos’ photographed for art project { * That was from Thursday.* —djo— }
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Microsoft fixes 19-year old Windows bug { * – Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years. – The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.
– IBM Corp’s cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a “significant vulnerability” in the operating system. – “The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years,” IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday. – *
*** The bugs were not “undiscovered”, Government Hackers spoke about this on Coast to Coast A.M. before the summer of 2002. Art Bell was the host. This program is not listed in the current Coast to Coast A.M. archives, at least I could not find it by searching ‘hackers’. 3 men who were quite ‘enthusiastic’ and talkative about their experience working for hackers for US Government agencies that ‘officially do not exist’ -one of them told us he has an ashtray with one of those officially non-existent agency’s official logo on it- told us that microsoft was fully aware of holes in their operating system but were not going to do anything about it because the government of the US liked it the way it was. They said it was simple for any hacker to get into your computer if you were ‘running windows’ -“Especially if you have printer sharing turned on.” && They also said they liked Apple Computers back then because it was possible to tell a Mac to do only one thing at a time, not like windows computers which could have all sorts of nonsense going on undetected in the background. – AND Another Coast to Coast A.M. guest, much more recently, related talking to a computer pioneer a long time ago, when dial ups were the latest thing, and when the computer guy finished showing him something, he would not leave the room without shutting off his computer, and disconnecting the phone line from his computer. When the C2C guest asked the computer guy what that was all about, the computer guy said that he, as in insider, knew that the US Government could already get into anyone’s computer that was connected to Delphi or GEnie or AOL, even if the computer had been turned off. — And, now that almost every computer in the world has WiFi capabilities- you can never fully disconnect yourself from the possibility that they can turn your computer on and gather any information you have, or were ever connected to- any time they want to do that- With the possible exception that you might be ‘safe’ if you live inside a Faraday cage, a hundred feet or more beneath the surface of this planet. Welcome to the future, it sucks. —jim w— }
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“Hospital can’t remove child from family and force her to take Chemo.”
“Most Viewed”
Franck Gervais faces charges after impersonating soldier at Remembrance Day ceremony { }
B.C. civic elections – CBC has you covered { }
Stephen Harper at G20 tells Vladimir Putin to ‘get out of Ukraine’ { * While thousands of Canadians want Harper to get out of Ottawa * —djo— }
Social media election day ban upsets Vancouver’s mayor { }
Rosetta comet mission: No communication from Philae lander { }
G20 summit: U.S., EU override Australia to put climate change on agenda { }
Hassan Diab charged with 1st-degree murder in France { }
Bill Cosby’s guest spot on Letterman show cancelled { }
Veteran ticketed escorting body of Private Steven Allen { }
Vancouver election: Voting begins in B.C. civic election { }
-Must Watch- Historic site near ISIS territory { * Excavation team announced newest finds Saturday at Kakemish, an ancient city on the Turkey-Syria border, metres from ISIS-controlled territory. * Wouldn’t it be wild to discover that this whole ISIS vs the world campaign was actually some kind of mega-conspiracy plot to keep archeologists from learning something like how the very ancient residents of that city defeated all their bansksters and freed the human race from b.s. mind control and GMO terrorist scientists and corporate-fascist government suppresion of individual rights for centuries? * —djo— }
-Must Watch- Chris Hadfield on Philae lander { * Chris comments on the lander, he did not go to the comet and land with it. * —djo— }
-Must Watch- Hawaii lava flow { }
-Editor’s Pick- Calgary man’s picture found in documents revealing underbelly of extremist group { * Wait until we really find out who is behind the creation of this group in the first place? * —djo— }
-Editor’s Pick- Sugar wars { * “White sugar, brown sugar, honey, juice? It’s all the same, nutritionally speaking.” * But what is significant here are the omissions: GMO modified sugars might even be ‘nutritionally’ as good as ‘Pure Cane Sugar’ BUT- the modified stuff will rot you from the inside out a lot quicker. GMO food is poison. * —djo— }
-Editor’s Pick- Rosetta mission to comet 67P ‘revolutionay,’ landing a first { * – But don’t forget that thousands of years, maybe millions of years of recorded history were deleted when ‘they’ bured the Great Library of Alexandria. – * —djo— }
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-djo’s Editor’s Pick- Questionable cancer ‘cures’ { * From Friday – Doctors and researchers know and have known since 1925 that sugar feeds cancer cells. Starve the Cells – kill the cancer. Effective herbs and naturally occurring ingredients in some plants also shrink and eliminate most cancerous growths but this information is supressed by Big Pharmaceutical companies who do not care if theire stuff kills you, they want to make a profit on your suffering. The really questionable stuff comes from ‘Big Pharma’ and the the Doctors they pay to spread their lies. —djo— }
-djo’s Editor’s Pick- Sugar wars { * From Friday: “White sugar, brown sugar, honey, juice? It’s all the same, nutritionally speaking.” * But what is significant here are the omissions: GMO modified sugars might even be ‘nutritionally’ as good as ‘Pure Cane Sugar’ BUT- the modified stuff will rot you from the inside out a lot quicker. GMO food is poison. * —djo— }
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“Remembrance Day”
“Local / New Brunswick”
Death of Saint John man after ‘violent’ altercation deemed homicide { * How many people have been accused of ‘suicide by police’ for not following orders they might not have understood? And- the Soviets locked up thousands in insane asylums for questioning their governmental authority, saying anyone who went up against their state was ‘obviously insane’ }
Brian Gallant faces more questions about politics and paving { }
Sackville RCMP seek ‘suspicious’ man who approached girl { }
Search for Dorothy Tucker continues near St Stephen { }
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Assembly of First Nations candidates.
“First Nations”
Three candidates for AFN National Chief { * “Ghislain Picard, Perry Bellegarde and Leon Jourdaine are the three official candidates in the running to become the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a position which Shawn Atleo resigned from in May amid some conflict.” * —djo— }
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-Video- Chemotherapy ruling { }
Rinelle Harper only one part of Winnipeg’s race divide { }
-Opinion- First Nations children not well served by chemotherapy ruling: Arthur Schafer { }
When 2 worlds collide, can they coincide? Unreserved this week { }
Rinelle Harper discharged from Winnipeg Hospital, recovering at home { }
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Family says ‘stress of court case over chemo for [ First Nations ] girl ‘uncalled for { }
Judge rejects application to take [ First Nations ] girl from family for chemo { }
Diabetes epidemic among indigenous Canadians, say front-line workers { * Stay away from sugars and get a lot of exercise, Before your doctors warn you that you may be heading for Diabetes. * —djo— }
Saskatoon lottery winner gives back to community { }
Saskatoon group trying to up the profile of restorative justice { }
2 Alberta First Nations file suit against site C dam project { }
Brian Bowman urges Winnipeggers to reach out to Rinelle Harper and family { }
Police dig up barn where Glenna Mae Breckenridge says her dad buried bodies in 1955 { }
Internal document urges government to raise cap on aboriginal education { }
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Teen Rinelle Harper ‘left for dead after 2 attacks { * – Two males have been charged with attempted murder after Rinelle Harper was twice attacked and “left for dead” during a violent assault on Winnipeg’s riverbank, police say. – * —djo— }
Racism in Canada: Join our live chat Thursday at 6 pm CT { * Too Late Now * }
‘It’s our story:’ N.W.T. Healing Film Festival Kicks off Sunday { }
-Exclusive- ‘Doctor’ treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves { }
New police board chair backs murdered, missing women inquiry { }
Racism in hockey still hants Nova Scotia father { }
Amina Abu-Bakare says ‘walk together’ to end racism { }
-Opinion- Beware of assumptions and stereotypes in the Rinelle Harper case { }
-Updated- Attacked Winnipeg teen Rinelle Harper called a hero and fighter { * And her parents say she remembers nothing of the attacks. * —djo— }
Fort Good Hope elders go hungry due to delayed cheques { }
-Audio- Laurentian University hires more aboriginal professors in Sudbury { }
-Analysis- Racism still an uncomfortable truth in Canada: Duncan McCue { }
Regina artist teaches Prince Charles to make moose hide art { }
People on the Prairies less tolerant, CBC poll says { }
Eagle wing trafficking case to be heard in Lethbridge court { }
-Photos- Indigenous circumpolar women leaders descend on Yellowknife { }
Chrisma Denny’s family says society has ‘failed’ her { * The family of a missing woman from Cape Breton believes she wouldn’t have disappeared if there was more support for homeless and aboriginal women. * —djo— }
-Opinion- First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II: Lest we forget { }
MANFF [Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters] loses federal funding: Flood evacuee, critics seek answers { * -First Nations flood evacuees and those who help them say it’s about time that the Manitoba Association of Native Fire Fighters has lost its federal funding amid accusations about misspent money.- / Earlier: -An Aboriginal aid agency in charge of 2011 flood evacuees has been stripped of its federal funding effective immediately.- * —djo— }
Remembrance Day poem to be read in aboriginal language { }
Francis Pegahmagabow, unsung WW I hero, to get overdue recognition { }
‘Just move it’ gets P.E.I. aboriginal people physically active { }
Aboriginal Affairs short of cash for education, social programs: document { }
Jim Prentice, northern Alberta chiefs to discuss oilsands concerns { }
Police identify Rinelle Harper, 16, as victim of Midtown Bridge attack { }
Behchoko boy, 14, takes own life after bullying { }
B.C. First Nation considers growing medical marijuana on its reserve { }
-Opinion- Time for some serious thought about Inuvik’s future { }
-Updated- Missing Sask. teens believed found, being returned home { }
Clyde River supports Greenpeace petition against seismic testing { }
Adrienne Clarkson on why Canada’s multiculturalism works { }
Toronto rally ‘overwhelms’ struggling homeless First Nation house-builder { }
Australians share indigenous protected area strategies with N.W.T. { }
Gary Moostoos rejects apology from City Centre mall manager { }
AFN national chief candidates address key issues in election { }
-Photos- Unreserved: The radio show in pictures, November 8 { }
-Video- Mother glad Nunavut govenment is taking action following infant’s death { }
Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters loses federal funding { * -An Aboriginal aid agency in charge of 2011 flood evacuees has been stripped of its federal funding effective immediately.- * —djo— }
Decorated First Nations vet Tommy Prince a Canadian hero { }
Shoal Lake no. 40 gets backing from IJC { }
Homeless woman fined for building her own home { }
Head of B.C. Missing Women Commission says no to national inquiry { * “Wally Oppal, the commissioner of the British Columbia Missing Women Commission, is saying no to the possibility of a national inquiry into more than 1,100 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.” * *** He says now is the time for action, not an inquiry. *** —djo— }
-Feature- Nunavut put community’s health ‘at risk’ by mishandling nurse { * -When a baby in a Nunavut hamlet died of a lung infection in 2012, questions arose about the nurse who allegedly failed to treat him. A CBC investigation reveals a history of complaints about the nurse and a government that refused to fire her.- * —djo— }
-Video- Derek Nepinak calls for boycott of Sun Media, Winnipeg Sun newspaper { }
Minister of Child Services offers Onigaming support after suicides { }
Indigenous physician brings unique perspective to her practice { }
-8 Photos- Kinder Morgan pipeline: First Nations fight back with fish { }
{ We’ve left a lot of First Nations news on this page after it was taken down from the ‘aboriginal’ page at the CBC web site. & The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here. —djo— }
{ This is what still grabs me – from Twitter – We’re trying to trim this down, I wanted to delete these below and start fresh, but they seem a little too important to me right now. ———djo——— }
“11 steps to Fascism” I forgot where this came from. bad me. —djo—“George Orwell Quote” = “If you draw your sword, you’ve been bought and sold by the dark side.” -djo-
“Conspiracy Watch” was busy last week. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-
{ “Anyone who would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” —Benjamin Franklin }
{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }
{ Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }
{ “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies” —Thomas Jefferson }
“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”
Fracking linked to Alberta earthquakes, study indicates { * – Carmen Langer had just left his bed to grab a drink of water when he felt his house northeast of Peace River, Alta., begin to shake. – “At first I thought I wasn’t feeling very good that day… and it was just my blood sugar, but no, it shook pretty good,” Langer said about the Nov. 2 incident.
– Moments after the shaking stopped, his neighbours were calling, asking if he had felt what they just felt. – “After a few minutes, I realized it was an earthquake,” Langer said. – There was a small earthquake on Nov. 2 in Peace River, just northeast of Peace River. The recently published study involving Alberta researcher Jeff Gu indicates fracking may trigger earthquakes in the province. – Natural Resources Canada (NRC) registered a small, 3.0-magnitude earthquake that was “lightly felt” from Three Creeks to St. Isidor in northern Alberta at 11:14 p.m. MT. NRC said on its website there were no reports of damage, and that “none would be expected.” – Jeff Gu, a seismologist at the University of Alberta, said the earthquake could have been caused by shifting rock formations in the region — but added there could be another possible explanation. – “Certainly that region is not immune to earthquake faulting, but I would say having actual earthquakes in that area is relatively recent, relatively new,” he said. – Gu is one of three authors of a recently published study in the Journal of Geophysical Research, a peer-reviewed publication that looked at four years of earthquake data around Rocky Mountain House. The study concludes that waste-water injection into the ground is highly correlated with spikes in earthquake activity in the area. – It is the first study of its kind conducted in Canada that links industrial activity to induced earthquakes. – “The conclusion was that the industrial activities could, in some cases, potentially trigger or facilitate earthquake occurrences,” Gu said. – Alberta earthquakes increasing – Since 1985, fewer than 15 earthquakes above a 3.0 magnitude have been recorded anywhere in Alberta, according to the Alberta Geological Survey’s website. There has been an increase in earthquake activity since the 1960s, the organization says. – The Peace River earthquake is not the only one that has shaken the province in the past few months:
In October, a 2.7-magnitude quake was recorded about four kilometres southwest of Banff.
In August, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake was registered near Rocky Mountain House, causing about 500 customers in the area to lose power for several hours.
– Gu said the research into whether waste-water induction and fracking are related to earthquakes is still “really a work in progress.” – “There has been more and more evidence, increasing evidence, in the last few years in particular — in Arkansas, in Texas and actually more recently here,” Gu said. – But he said there is nothing to fear right now. – “I’m not worried until we get a conclusive answer on whether these are caused by industry or not, whether they are naturally occurring,” Gu said. – Langer, however, is worried. – “With all the stuff that’s going on in my community, I’m feeling quite concerned about it,” he said. “We’re having all kinds of environmental problems in the community… Something has to give here.” – * —djo— }
Friday, 14 November, 2014 -( 31˚F / +0˚C – & ‘partly cloudy’ out there @ 10:30 am near Ithaca )- -( 32˚F / +0˚C – With Light Snow making it beautiful outside @ 11:30 am Closer to Halifax —jda—)- — { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson & jim wellington, with help from —jda— }
{ —jda—‘s blog disappeared from the list of NaBloPoMo blogs on the ‘BlogHer’ page — Jim W went over 50,000 words at NaNOWriMo On Tuesday, Now = 55,131 words. }
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Torture Victims ask for “Justice-Not-Revenge’ at a trial in Ndjamena —djo—
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*** Cathi’s Budgies used to sing along with the music we played. *** —jim w—“Good Question!” & it looks like a lot of others agree. —jda—CBC wins a prize today for having the best photos and articles in my little tweeter-verse. Just when I began to wonder if they were relevant. —djo—
Lead Articles: Today’s Theme?: “Evidence of Crimes against First Nations Youth, Canadian Hospitals Cannot Force Children who object to undergo Chemotherapy, Somebody believes they found evidence of the ‘bureaucratic underbelly’ of ISIS, and a man in Hamilton was misdiagnosed, does not have lung cancer, but the Hospital says its mistake was one in a million.”
5 Tweets in a row, from CBC news up to Half Past Human- —djo—
Today’s lead article on the CBC /news/ page is about Police digging, looking for the bodies of 3 First Nations boys a woman said she watched her father murder and bury when she was a child. Police did not seem to believe her before someone with ground-penetrating radar found something that looks like she was telling the truth, right where she said the bodies were buried. —jim w—
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“Australians bury heads in sand to mock government climate stance” -From the article listed in “Offbeat” below. —djo—
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“Sexist Shirt”
“Offbeat”
Rosetta mission scientist apologizes for wearing ‘sexist’ shirt covered in half-naked cartoon women { }
Janina Kolkiewicz wakes up in morgue hours after she is pronounced dead. { }
Oddly shaped ‘suspect Cheetos’ photographed for art project { * That was from yesterday.* —djo— }
Twitter attempts to #FixTheInternet after Kim Kardashian breaks it with her butt { *This is from yesterday. * —djo— }
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Microsoft fixes 19-year old Windows bug { * – Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years. – The bug, which is present in every version of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onward, allows an attacker to remotely take over and control a computer.
– IBM Corp’s cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a “significant vulnerability” in the operating system. – “The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the past 18 years,” IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday. – *
*** The bugs were not “undiscovered”, Government Hackers spoke about this on Coast to Coast A.M. before the summer of 2002. Art Bell was the host. This program is not listed in the current Coast to Coast A.M. archives, at least I could not find it by searching ‘hackers’. 3 men who were quite ‘enthusiastic’ and talkative about their experience working for hackers for US Government agencies that ‘officially do not exist’ -one of them told us he has an ashtray with one of those officially non-existent agency’s official logo on it- told us that microsoft was fully aware of holes in their operating system but were not going to do anything about it because the government of the US liked it the way it was. They said it was simple for any hacker to get into your computer if you were ‘running windows’ -“Especially if you have printer sharing turned on.” && They also said they liked Apple Computers back then because it was possible to tell a Mac to do only one thing at a time, not like windows computers which could have all sorts of nonsense going on undetected in the background. – AND Another Coast to Coast A.M. guest, much more recently, related talking to a computer pioneer a long time ago, when dial ups were the latest thing, and when the computer guy finished showing him something, he would not leave the room without shutting off his computer, and disconnecting the phone line from his computer. When the C2C guest asked the computer guy what that was all about, the computer guy said that he, as in insider, knew that the US Government could already get into anyone’s computer that was connected to Delphi or GEnie or AOL, even if the computer had been turned off. — And, now that almost every computer in the world has WiFi capabilities- you can never fully disconnect yourself from the possibility that they can turn your computer on and gather any information you have, or were ever connected to- any time they want to do that- With the possible exception that you might be ‘safe’ if you live inside a Faraday cage, a hundred feet or more beneath the surface of this planet. Welcome to the future, it sucks. —jim w— }
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“Hospital can’t remove child from family and force her to take Chemo.”
“Most Viewed”
Lung cancer diagnosis wrong, Hamilton man finds out { }
Police digu up barn where Glenna Mae Breckenridge says her dad buried bodies in 1955 { }
Tory anti-pot ad mocked and condemned by YouTube viewers { * Link * }
Judge rejects application to take aboriginal girl from family for chemo { }
Trevor Proudman, Edmonton man with behaviour disorder, dies after being left in police van { }
Remembrance Day ‘sergeant’ now receiving threats { – }
‘Drug-laced’ cookies shared with Dawson Creek elementary school students { }
Bill Cosby ‘drugged and raped me,’ says former teen acress Barbara Bowman { }
Keystone bill passes U.S. House, moves to Senate { }
Early harsh winter weather in West ‘roars’ into Ontario, Quebec { }
-Must Watch- South Korea kimchi-making event ] { }
-Editor’s Pick- Sugar wars { * “White sugar, brown sugar, honey, juice? It’s all the same, nutritionally speaking.” * But what is significant here are the omissions: GMO modified sugars might even be ‘nutritionally’ as good as ‘Pure Cane Sugar’ BUT- the modified stuff will rot you from the inside out a lot quicker. GMO food is poison. * —djo— }
-Editor’s Pick- Rosetta mission to comet 67P ‘revolutionay,’ landing a first { * – But don’t forget that thousands of years, maybe millions of years of recorded history were deleted when ‘they’ bured the Great Library of Alexandria. – * —djo— }
-Editor’s Pick- Questionable cancer ‘cures’ { * – Doctors and researchers know and have known since 1925 that sugar feeds cancer cells. Starve the Cells – kill the cancer. Effective herbs and naturally occurring ingredients in some plants also shrink and eliminate most cancerous growths but this information is supressed by Big Pharmaceutical companies who do not care if theire stuff kills you, they want to make a profit on your suffering. The really questionable stuff comes from ‘Big Pharma’ and the the Doctors they pay to spread their lies. —djo— }
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“Remembrance Day”
“Local / New Brunswick”
Death of Saint John man after ‘violent’ altercation deemed homicide { * How many people have been accused of ‘suicide by police’ for not following orders they might not have understood? And- the Soviets locked up thousands in insane asylums for questioning their governmental authority, saying anyone who went up against their state was ‘obviously insane’ }
Brian Gallant faces more questions about politics and paving { }
Sackville RCMP seek ‘suspicious’ man who approached girl { }
Search for Dorothy Tucker continues near St Stephen { }
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Assembly of First Nations candidates.
“First Nations”
Three candidates for AFN National Chief { * “Ghislain Picard, Perry Bellegarde and Leon Jourdaine are the three official candidates in the running to become the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a position which Shawn Atleo resigned from in May amid some conflict.” * —djo— }
Judge rejects application to take [ First Nations ] girl from family for chemo { }
Diabetes epidemic among indigenous Canadians, say front-line workers { * Stay away from sugars and get a lot of exercise, Before your doctors warn you that you may be heading for Diabetes. * —djo— }
Saskatoon lottery winner gives back to community { }
Saskatoon group trying to up the profile of restorative justice { }
2 Alberta First Nations file suit against site C dam project { }
Brian Bowman urges Winnipeggers to reach out to Rinelle Harper and family { }
Police dig up barn where Glenna Mae Breckenridge says her dad buried bodies in 1955 { }
Internal document urges government to raise cap on aboriginal education { }
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Teen Rinelle Harper ‘left for dead after 2 attacks { * – Two males have been charged with attempted murder after Rinelle Harper was twice attacked and “left for dead” during a violent assault on Winnipeg’s riverbank, police say. – * —djo— }
Racism in Canada: Join our live chat Thursday at 6 pm CT { * Too Late Now * }
‘It’s our story:’ N.W.T. Healing Film Festival Kicks off Sunday { }
-Exclusive- ‘Doctor’ treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves { }
New police board chair backs murdered, missing women inquiry { }
Racism in hockey still hants Nova Scotia father { }
Amina Abu-Bakare says ‘walk together’ to end racism { }
-Opinion- Beware of assumptions and stereotypes in the Rinelle Harper case { }
-Updated- Attacked Winnipeg teen Rinelle Harper called a hero and fighter { * And her parents say she remembers nothing of the attacks. * —djo— }
Fort Good Hope elders go hungry due to delayed cheques { }
-Audio- Laurentian University hires more aboriginal professors in Sudbury { }
-Analysis- Racism still an uncomfortable truth in Canada: Duncan McCue { }
Regina artist teaches Prince Charles to make moose hide art { }
People on the Prairies less tolerant, CBC poll says { }
Eagle wing trafficking case to be heard in Lethbridge court { }
-Photos- Indigenous circumpolar women leaders descend on Yellowknife { }
Chrisma Denny’s family says society has ‘failed’ her { * The family of a missing woman from Cape Breton believes she wouldn’t have disappeared if there was more support for homeless and aboriginal women. * —djo— }
-Opinion- First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II: Lest we forget { }
MANFF [Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters] loses federal funding: Flood evacuee, critics seek answers { * -First Nations flood evacuees and those who help them say it’s about time that the Manitoba Association of Native Fire Fighters has lost its federal funding amid accusations about misspent money.- / Earlier: -An Aboriginal aid agency in charge of 2011 flood evacuees has been stripped of its federal funding effective immediately.- * —djo— }
Remembrance Day poem to be read in aboriginal language { }
Francis Pegahmagabow, unsung WW I hero, to get overdue recognition { }
‘Just move it’ gets P.E.I. aboriginal people physically active { }
Aboriginal Affairs short of cash for education, social programs: document { }
Jim Prentice, northern Alberta chiefs to discuss oilsands concerns { }
Police identify Rinelle Harper, 16, as victim of Midtown Bridge attack { }
Behchoko boy, 14, takes own life after bullying { }
B.C. First Nation considers growing medical marijuana on its reserve { }
-Opinion- Time for some serious thought about Inuvik’s future { }
-Updated- Missing Sask. teens believed found, being returned home { }
Clyde River supports Greenpeace petition against seismic testing { }
Adrienne Clarkson on why Canada’s multiculturalism works { }
Toronto rally ‘overwhelms’ struggling homeless First Nation house-builder { }
Australians share indigenous protected area strategies with N.W.T. { }
Gary Moostoos rejects apology from City Centre mall manager { }
AFN national chief candidates address key issues in election { }
-Photos- Unreserved: The radio show in pictures, November 8 { }
-Video- Mother glad Nunavut govenment is taking action following infant’s death { }
Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters loses federal funding { * -An Aboriginal aid agency in charge of 2011 flood evacuees has been stripped of its federal funding effective immediately.- * —djo— }
Decorated First Nations vet Tommy Prince a Canadian hero { }
Shoal Lake no. 40 gets backing from IJC { }
Homeless woman fined for building her own home { }
Head of B.C. Missing Women Commission says no to national inquiry { * “Wally Oppal, the commissioner of the British Columbia Missing Women Commission, is saying no to the possibility of a national inquiry into more than 1,100 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.” * *** He says now is the time for action, not an inquiry. *** —djo— }
-Feature- Nunavut put community’s health ‘at risk’ by mishandling nurse { * -When a baby in a Nunavut hamlet died of a lung infection in 2012, questions arose about the nurse who allegedly failed to treat him. A CBC investigation reveals a history of complaints about the nurse and a government that refused to fire her.- * —djo— }
-Video- Derek Nepinak calls for boycott of Sun Media, Winnipeg Sun newspaper { }
Minister of Child Services offers Onigaming support after suicides { }
Indigenous physician brings unique perspective to her practice { }
-8 Photos- Kinder Morgan pipeline: First Nations fight back with fish { }
{ We’ve left a lot of First Nations news on this page after it was taken down from the ‘aboriginal’ page at the CBC web site. & The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here. —djo— }
{ This is what still grabs me – from Twitter – We’re trying to trim this down, I wanted to delete these below and start fresh, but they seem a little too important to me right now. ———djo——— }
“11 steps to Fascism” I forgot where this came from. bad me. —djo—“George Orwell Quote” = “If you draw your sword, you’ve been bought and sold by the dark side.” -djo-
“Conspiracy Watch” was busy last week. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-
“Call out the instigators, because there’s something in the air-” NEVER Surrender! —djo—
War Is Terrorism
{ “Anyone who would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” —Benjamin Franklin }
{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }
{ Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }
Banksters?
{ “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies” —Thomas Jefferson }
“What can one do to reduce the fear of terrorism?” / “Click!”
Fracking linked to Alberta earthquakes, study indicates { * – Carmen Langer had just left his bed to grab a drink of water when he felt his house northeast of Peace River, Alta., begin to shake. – “At first I thought I wasn’t feeling very good that day… and it was just my blood sugar, but no, it shook pretty good,” Langer said about the Nov. 2 incident.
– Moments after the shaking stopped, his neighbours were calling, asking if he had felt what they just felt. – “After a few minutes, I realized it was an earthquake,” Langer said. – There was a small earthquake on Nov. 2 in Peace River, just northeast of Peace River. The recently published study involving Alberta researcher Jeff Gu indicates fracking may trigger earthquakes in the province. – Natural Resources Canada (NRC) registered a small, 3.0-magnitude earthquake that was “lightly felt” from Three Creeks to St. Isidor in northern Alberta at 11:14 p.m. MT. NRC said on its website there were no reports of damage, and that “none would be expected.” – Jeff Gu, a seismologist at the University of Alberta, said the earthquake could have been caused by shifting rock formations in the region — but added there could be another possible explanation. – “Certainly that region is not immune to earthquake faulting, but I would say having actual earthquakes in that area is relatively recent, relatively new,” he said. – Gu is one of three authors of a recently published study in the Journal of Geophysical Research, a peer-reviewed publication that looked at four years of earthquake data around Rocky Mountain House. The study concludes that waste-water injection into the ground is highly correlated with spikes in earthquake activity in the area. – It is the first study of its kind conducted in Canada that links industrial activity to induced earthquakes. – “The conclusion was that the industrial activities could, in some cases, potentially trigger or facilitate earthquake occurrences,” Gu said. – Alberta earthquakes increasing – Since 1985, fewer than 15 earthquakes above a 3.0 magnitude have been recorded anywhere in Alberta, according to the Alberta Geological Survey’s website. There has been an increase in earthquake activity since the 1960s, the organization says. – The Peace River earthquake is not the only one that has shaken the province in the past few months:
In October, a 2.7-magnitude quake was recorded about four kilometres southwest of Banff.
In August, a 4.3-magnitude earthquake was registered near Rocky Mountain House, causing about 500 customers in the area to lose power for several hours.
– Gu said the research into whether waste-water induction and fracking are related to earthquakes is still “really a work in progress.” – “There has been more and more evidence, increasing evidence, in the last few years in particular — in Arkansas, in Texas and actually more recently here,” Gu said. – But he said there is nothing to fear right now. – “I’m not worried until we get a conclusive answer on whether these are caused by industry or not, whether they are naturally occurring,” Gu said. – Langer, however, is worried. – “With all the stuff that’s going on in my community, I’m feeling quite concerned about it,” he said. “We’re having all kinds of environmental problems in the community… Something has to give here.” – * —djo— }
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