Interesting interview

 

Independent reporting

https://fb.watch/aSQNWikxfa/

Message from convoy organizer Tamara Lich

https://gofund.me/cf5c9fcf

Ottawa convoy comments

Op Ed by Helge Nome

This reminds me of the early days of the Yellow Vest movement that played out before the pandemic.

During that time, small extreme groups saw the opportunity to infiltrate the Yellow Vests and give the mainstream media an excuse to paint everybody with the same brush.

This could easily happen again in Ottawa tomorrow as folks from all over North America congregate in Canada's capital to confront politicians with their grievances.

Meanwhile, the pandemic is playing itself out and most restrictions will likely be lifted in the next few weeks anyway, convoy or no convoy.

The economy is already beginning to boom and inflation is likely the next problem ahead for us all.

On NATO's front lines, a difference of opinion on how to best respond to Russia Social Sharing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nato-base-visit-lithuania-1.6330281?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_402786

Anti-vaccine-mandate truck convoy passing through Alberta on way to Ottawa

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/anti-vaccine-mandate-truck-convoy-alberta-covid-1.6324819?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR2iCR-jfW27XaN4Oc1FHiUQnHFqsmD8O3xbUI-laJt__ZwG8KDhixxeqWw

Comment on the convoy to Ottawa

Op Ed by Helge Nome

I was involved with the Yellow Vest movement before the pandemic and a convoy to Ottawa was organized where a number of people with "yellow vest" sentiments were engaged.

The general thrust of that convoy was against perceived federal government overreach into provincial matters and the stifling of our energy industry based on political ideology from Ottawa.

I believe this new convoy is based on similar sentiments with anti-compulsory-vaxxing sitting in the front seat, as the energy sector is rebounding at present.

This time a lot of anti government sentiments have been stirred up by the pandemic which is now in its end stages.

So, I am expecting a lot of public support to be expressed for the convoy providing extreme elements are prevented from taking over the show.

I never knew about those:

Them were the days

Interesting movie

Beginning of the end of Covid pandemic

 

5G phones: How serious is the threat to US flights?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60042178

Killing your host, virus vs humans

Op Ed by Helge Nome
It is not a good idea to bulldoze in on your host, with no regard for his health and the consequences for yourself in the process, as you accompany him to his, and your funeral.

If you want to thrive and multiply, your host needs to be treated with respect and not be unduly troubled by your presence. COVID has now learned that lesson and is very successfully claiming territory in the form of the Omicron variant.

The question arises; have we, humans, learned that lesson yet, in relation to how we treat Mother Earth? I don't think so, and we are about to learn the hard way, whether we like it or not, and those that show our mother some respect will ultimately be those that survive.

Real Rudolph

She saved 200,000 books from the landfill and hopes to find them all a home

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cornwall-200-000-books-barn-red-cart-books-1.6314275?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_389542

Cut loose from the House of Windsor

 

BC NDP Faces Internal Pressure to Change Course on the Wet’suwet’en Crisis

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/01/10/BC-NDP-Faces-Internal-Pressure-Change-Course-Wetsuweten-Crisis/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100122

Those were the days: Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving

Fred Eaglesmith 10 years on. Are you a Fredhead?

Fred Eaglesmith and his band performed at the Grandview Stage, near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta on July 14, 2009.

 

End of pandemic. What's next?

Op Ed by Helge Nome

The Covid pandemic is all but over, thanks to the virulent Omicron variant that has now all but displaced the Delta variant as the main infective agent.

The result is far less severe disease and more rapid recovery from infection. Nature has done its thing. What's the point in killing your host or severely demobilizing him anyway? If the object is rapid and sustained spread to a maximum number of hosts?

So, like in 1920, it is time to move on to the good times, maybe? Like the "roaring twenties"?

History has a tendency to repeat itself, so I expect something like that will happen because of post pandemic pent up energy being released.

Just as well, because we are going to be heading into severe weather challenges as atmospheric gases move in unpredictable ways above our heads, driven by changes in ocean currents and absorbed energy from Sol.

An asteroid barely missed Earth last week, and no one knew it was coming

https://www.livescience.com/surprise-asteroid-flyby

Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers more than 2,000 years ago Excavations uncovered furnaces and fire pits for metalworking in what’s now northeastern Sweden

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arctic-hunter-gatherers-iron-metal-production-sweden?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=latest-newsletter-v2&utm_source=Latest_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest_Headlines

Fred Eaglesmith on Grandview Stage

 Veteran Canadian singer/songwriter and storyteller Fred Eaglesmith had a captive audience on Grandview Stage, southwest of Rocky Mountain House on Tuesday, July 14, 2009. The informal lawn setting, mosquitoes, and unfulfilled threat of showers, fitted right in with Fred's style: He is a somewhat irreverent commentator on the status quo, in both prose and song and his followers are self proclaimed "FredHeads" (rhymes with "deadheads"). Present among the locals at the performance where people from Australia and one group had traveled from Vancouver to spend a night with Fred and his band, who were supported by the Ginn Sisters from Texas. Fred commented on everything from life on the farm ("I shot my neighbor's dog") to Brian Mulroney's $300,000 wad of cash, and how heavy it must have been to carry it out of the hotel. ("Why didn't he just accept a cheque instead?)

Hang tight, Omicron is likely running out of fuel

Fred Eaglesmith making fun of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney

There was a whole lineup of tractors, old and not-so-old, lined up for the tractor pull at the Leslieville Antique days on the August 1-2 weekend.

This coal fueled steam locomotive is a replica of the Royal Scot that used to haul passengers between London and Edinburgh.

This was the way to do it before chainsaws took over

On Thursday night, June 7, 2012, during a major flooding event in the western foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, a pipeline owned by Plains Midstream Canada, carrying sour crude oil burst, sending a large quantity of oil into Jackson Creek, a tributary to the Red Deer River.

Feeding frenzy

Innisfail Legion Pipe Band

 

A tale of two fighter jets — and what it means for Canada's defence and place in the world

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-fighter-jets-defence-1.6296021?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_370289

Nearly 1,000 structures destroyed, 3 people missing after Colorado wildfire, officials say

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/colorado-wildfires-two-people-missing-1.6301937?ref=mobilerss&cmp=newsletter_CBC%20News%20Top%20Headlines%20%20%E2%80%93%20Morning_1613_369966