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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

🍁 HAPPY CANADA MORNING TO YOU! 🍁

Glad and proud to be a French Canadian, Metis, Moose Bronco Buster, and retired Road Runner. Much better than being in the Dunce Cadet for The Orange Pus Bag, party pooper 💩 of America. 50 lbs of 💩 in a 5 lbs ziplock bag. 🧊 Better duck or carry a tin umbrella in case the zip should suddenly unzip.  😱

Here I am again, set up with my laptop at the kitchen table, sitting next to the sliding glass door going out to my green space.  🏞  The sun ☀️ streaming in and the birds 🦜 singing, as I sit here sipping coffee, and my brain's neuronal network begins to activate. Like strings of tiny L.E.D. lights coming on one at a time, all at once. Quite an imaginary display, I say old chap! I hope I don't pop any circuit breakers like I did yesterday. 😒

Well, there is not much more to report from here at the Newsroom, 🧖‍♀️ except it got a little noisier outside. There's a sound like a stationary bush plane sitting on the ground, idling with a steady drone, somewhere in the distance. Closer by, it sounds like someone raking gravel or something similar. Annoying! I wish they would stick that monotonous droning sound up their butt holes. 🖕

And to my American brothers and sisters:

🌸 🌺 🪷 ~ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ~ 🪷 🌺 🌸

Don't forget to put a flower in the muzzle of those soldiers ' firearms. 

It's time for the flower children to go into action again, it would seem.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

I never thought we would go through another, not just an eventual Cuban crisis, which I can see the odds of this happening again have certainly been raised by passing that cursed bill, but also the Nazi Party's consolidation of power in Germany, beginning in 1933.

How can any country remain stable under the leadership of a schizophrenic, psychopathic maniac in power? Or like Hitler with tertiary syphilis. In The Orange Pus Bag's case, maybe simply an evil mind in the late stages of dementia. Either way, we can only pray 🙏 that the outcome of either of those diseases soon becomes a reality. Without the master, the rest of his dunce brigade 🔺 🔺 🔺 🔺🔺 

will scatter like cockroaches.  🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 

AMEN!

BREAKING NEWS:

The behind-the-scenes power John Roberts wields to ensure his influence with justices

Chief Justice John Roberts often laments that he has limited clout as he deals with his eight Supreme Court colleagues.

“You can’t fire people if they don’t follow you. You can’t cut their pay,” he told a group of federal judges on Saturday, the day after the court released its final opinions of the term. “You have to be able to communicate what you think is important, and sometimes that means doing it eight different ways.” But Roberts, in fact, has several powerful levers, perhaps the most valuable being the power to assign opinions that speak for the court.

When the chief is in the majority – as he was more than anyone this term – he chooses which justice will write the opinion. That’s important because the force of any Supreme Court decision exceeds its bottom-line vote. Its rationale sets a precedent for future cases. Even the rhetoric and tone can influence lower court judges...

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Updated 8:12 AM EDT, Wed July 2, 2025

- CNN -

Tesla reports record sales plunge from last year 

Tesla reported another record plunge in sales Wednesday, as brand damage from CEO Elon Musk’s political activities and increased competition continued to batter the once fast-growing electric car maker.

Tesla reported it sold 384,122 cars in the quarter, down nearly 60,000 cars, or 13.5% from the sales total a year ago. That marks the largest year-over-year drop in sales in the company’s history. However, that number is up 14.1% from its first quarter total. Despite the drop in sales, shares of Tesla (TSLA) opened up nearly 4% Wednesday trading following the report. That’s because it exceeded some analyst forecasts for a much larger drop in sales.

Musk’s political activities, especially his previous role in the Trump administration, has prompted widespread protests at Tesla showrooms across the United States and Europe, along with some instances of vandalism against its vehicles and facilities...

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Updated 9:34 AM EDT, Wed July 2, 2025

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Climate - science - Paleontology:

4 min read

The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why

Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event known as the “Great Dying” that wiped out around 90% of life.

What followed has long puzzled scientists. The planet became lethally hot and remained so for 5 million years.

A team of international researchers say they have now figured out why using a vast trove of fossils — and it all revolves around tropical forests.

Their findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, may help solve a mystery, but they also spell out a dire warning for the future as humans continue to heat up the planet by burning fossil fuels. A team of international researchers say they have now figured out why using a vast trove of fossils — and it all revolves around tropical forests.

Their findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, may help solve a mystery, but they also spell out a dire warning for the future as humans continue to heat up the planet by burning fossil fuels. The Great Dying was the worst of the five mass extinction events that have punctuated Earth’s history, and it marked the end of the Permian geological period...

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July 2, 2025 Updated 4 hr ago 

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Is Canada beating ploughshares into swords with its NATO 5% pledge? Not likely

Government has levers it can pull in times of urgency

By anyone's measure, $150 billion a year is an eye-watering amount of money to spend on anything — let alone defence. While it pales in comparison to the inflation-adjusted appropriations of the Second World War, it is potentially, for this generation, the very definition of beating ploughshares into swords. Or is it?

Following all of the political sound and fury and sticker shock of last week's NATO summit in The Hague, the question of what Prime Minister Mark Carney's government wants to accomplish with all of that money — on an annual basis — is coming into even sharper focus.

• On the surface, the Liberals have pledged to quickly and efficiently rearm the Canadian military. "We are protecting Canadians against new threats. I wish we didn't have to, but we do have to and it is our core responsibility as government," Carney said at the summit.
• NATO's 5% benchmark would cost Canada $150B a year, Carney says Canada signs deal deepening European defence and security partnership

• F-35 program facing skyrocketing costs, pilot shortage and infrastructure deficit: AG report
• Speed vs. shift:
• Canada promises to spend 5% of GDP on defence by 2035 in pact with NATO leaders

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Posted: Jul 02, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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First Nations opposition to Bill C-5 draws comparisons to Idle No More movement

Federal government plans consultations over summer

As more First Nations voice opposition to Bill C-5, some are drawing comparisons to the 2012 Idle No More movement. Hayden King, executive director of the Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led research and education centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, said both the speed with which it was passed and ideas in the bill remind him of former prime minister Stephen Harper's omnibus bill that helped create the Idle No More movement. 

"It was trying to do the very same thing, right? It was trying to fast-track resource development and it got pushed back and it got resistance," said King, who is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation in Ontario. "And as basically [Prime Minister Mark] Carney's first act, he's taken up that mantle to really drive and push that extractive resource development."

Passed into law last week, Bill C-5 aims to remove interprovincial trade barriers while another, more controversial, part of the law aims to speed up projects of national interest, including energy development projects, by allowing special "designated projects" to bypass some federal laws...

• Wide array of concerns over bill:
• Liberals' major projects bill passes House of Commons with Conservative support
• Bills 5 and C-5 spur Six Nations teach-in on Haudenosaunee rights
• 'Layer upon layer' of approvals slows down projects, says advocate:
• Carney's 'nation-building' projects bill passes into law — but not without Indigenous pushback
• Treaty 8 First Nations call for 2% resource revenues from projects on their land

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Posted: Jul 01, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 1

- CBC -

♪♫NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL♪♫

🍃 🌿 🌳 ~ Come with me to the Sacred Forest ~ 🌳 🌿 🍃

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