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Good morning! I pray that everyone be well, safe, at peace, provided for, and be blessed, whoever and wherever they are, wherever there is confusion, strife, and suffering.🙏 🌅

I wish I had more time to spend here with you in the newsroom. The Newroom is my wake-up pill for the morning, and it goes well with my coffee. I do not have much to report this morning except waking up and thinking I had one more day to myself until I discovered today is the repacking day. I felt my soul wither to the bottom of my boots. At least I had a check-off list I made on the first day I got back from Toronto. That made it much easier to repack. I think I got everything except the kitchen sink, and I think Elon Musk stole that! "LOL!" 😂 🤣 Idiot.

Well, I suppose I should be getting myself ready soon before I miss the bus. "Personally, dear! I wouldn't mind being late for this one."

In this penguin weather, fat coat and blue jeans, I miss the sundress weather. I miss so much not having to struggle like a packhorse to get into the jeep to go anywhere. Feel like a mummy wrapped in too many bandages.

We will be leaving in about an hour, it is 10:20 pm now. I will let you all know when we get to my sister's place, which I will not even try to guess. Maybe sometime in the evening will be my guess.

"By, for now."👋

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Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray that you be well, at peace, provided for, & blessed 🙏 🌅

I am a little late getting started this morning. It's one of those gloomy, cloudy, clammy-like days, with an uncomfortable, cool feeling like inside a cave with no clothes on. 😨 🧥 🥶 . No heat on, I sat on the couch like a frozen turd in Alaska in January with my coat on, too frozen to want to move. Then the heat finally came on, and I continued to do my morning duties. I swept the floors; it is amazing how much dust accumulated over the course of four days.

I guess that's the privilege of having someone living above you. Although this building is fairly well noise-insulated, there are still the vibrations of thumping from dropping something heavy or moving furniture that are enough to create dust to fall from the ceiling, as well as the normal atmospheric dust.

"ATTACK OF THE DUST BUNNIES!" 🐰 🐰 🐰 "Their vewy, vewy, dangewous! don't you know?", as Bugs himself would say. Dust bunnies with Carnivorous 🦖 teeth, "Eeeek! Welcome to my nightmare!" 🤣 Buzzsaw antiquities. Maybe all the way back to when they used to cut rock... "with laser beams?" Just having fun, hope those buzzsaw antiquities cheered your day up a little, even just a teensy weensy little subatomic particle size smile. 💫 😆 , thank you for dropping by the Newsroom, now it's time for the Howdy Doody Show, 🧖‍♂️ discussion of the day. 🎤 😉

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

History Repats Itself

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The idea that history repeats itself, often expressed as "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," is a common and influential thought. While the concept has been explored by various figures, like George Santayana, it's not a strict determinism, but rather a cautionary statement about the importance of learning from the past.

According to Virginia Tech, it is often misattributed to Edmund Burke, but is primarily credited to Santayana.

• The Paradox of Learning:
• Memory and Context:
• The Role of Human Agency:
• Cycles of History:
• Not a Guarantee:
• Learning vs. Repeating:

While history can provide patterns and lessons, it's ultimately human choices and actions that determine the future.

Yes, the future isn't written in stone; it is only limited by what our conscious mind tells us. It's the conscious mind that puts up the barriers. I have found that there are ways to take a detour by following a much longer trail, but with persistence, you will get to where you should be, and not necessarily where you wanted to be.

You can't stop resistance; that's defying the law of gravity. You have to engineer ways around the law of gravity, or it will get ya! That took me some time to learn. I had to learn to draw a blueprint, or at least a check off list "literally on paper," on how to get there, but I learned always to be ready for roadblocks along the way. I need to allow for change, use a good old-fashioned HB pencil with a good eraser on it, and a pad of paper to plot the detours along the way.

BREAKING NEWS:

Speaker Johnson aiming for House vote today on Trump’s domestic policy bill

What we're covering

• Push to pass Trump’s agenda: Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN the House will seek to vote later today on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts policy bill — even as sticking points remain between conservative and moderate Republicans. Conservatives are casting doubt that the package can be passed today as Johnson works to convince them on it.

• All-nighter:

• Trump meeting Ramaphosa:

GOP hardliners warn about adding to the deficit if domestic policy bill is passed

Some conservative hardliners are warning about the potential pitfalls in the domestic policy bill House Speaker Mike Johnson is looking to push to the floor tonight.

GOP Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia acknowledged that the bill would add to the deficit, but implied that it may be Republicans’ only choice to pass Trump’s agenda.

“I would love to have everything that I want, and as you know, I’m a deficit hawk, but I can’t not pass this and then expect something better to happen,” he said.

When asked about the nonpartisan analysis that said the bill could add $3.8 trillion over eight years, McCormick said, “It’s going to. Absolutely. It’s not as good as I want it to be, but if the Democrats took control of the bill, it would be bigger.”

Another GOP hardliner, Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, argued the legislation “spends more money … than the status quo” and “actually hurts the deficits,” adding it sets a bad precedent for future lawmakers.

Updated 11:32 AM EDT, Wed May 21, 2025 - CNN -

Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments

In this June 2020 photo shows a Minneapolis Police officer in uniform in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Trump administration is dismissing investigations into several major US police departments, as well as consent decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd.

The move, announced by the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, reflects the administration's opposition to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the DOJ found a pattern of misconduct.

A consent decree is a federal agreement that is approved by a judge and is used as a monitoring system for police departments when an investigation finds that reform is needed.

Published 10:18 AM EDT, Wed May 21, 2025 - CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Bell says it's working to restore services after widespread outage across Ontario, Quebec

Users continue to report blackout, issues with landline and mobile internet

After users in Ontario and Quebec reported a widespread outage of Bell Canada's services this morning, the company said it's working to restore the system.

Data from DownDetector, an outage tracker, showed that complaints spiked around 9:30 a.m. ET, with more than 133,000 reports made. Most of the reports cited issues with landline and mobile internet connections.

By 10 a.m. ET, the number of complaints had dropped to 41,000.

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Posted: May 21, 2025 9:50 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

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Arctic energy, security on agenda as Western premiers meet in Yellowknife

N.W.T. Premier R.J. Simpson says the leaders will discuss a range of issues, including Arctic security

Premiers from Western Canada are to meet Wednesday for the first of a two-day conference in Yellowknife.

Premiers from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are set to attend the annual conference.

Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson's office says the leaders will discuss a range of issues, including Arctic and energy security, trade and emergency preparedness...

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Posted: May 21, 2025 10:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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Hi everyone, we will be leaving Toronto to head back home at around 11:00 am. We should be home somewhere between 3 and 4 pm, depending on traffic. I will let you know when I get back. We have been getting sunny weather, but it still that damned cool breeze, coat weather.

My stomach didn't do as well as it should. The GERD paid a visit, which kind of slowed us down from going sightseeing. We went to the Royal Ontario Museum; it was not comfortably warm, and I was glad to get back to the room.

It wasn't a bad trip at all. I figured out that packing by memory may be OK if you're only going away for a couple of days. Memory does not work for me; I'm a scatterbrain. I needed to make up a checklist of stuff we need for a trip like this. Nothing is more annoying than reaching for something in the suitcase that's still sitting in the medicine cabinet at home. I don't have an arm long enough to reach that far.

Outside of that, it was a nice four-day national do-nothing time out in someone else's accommodations. Since we are not certain if Trump Arsehole will interfere with our Social Security, if he does, this maybe the last road trip for a while. I don't like thinking about him; I have all these horrible thoughts go through my mind, not what he could do to me, but what I would like to do with him. As an empath, those are horrible thoughts to think. So, even empaths can think of violent retribution, but it is not good to allow oneself to dwell on it. Actually, that's scary. Take heart, and empaths; instead of retribution, it should be restitution before and after.

Thank you for reading. I pray you all have a productive and safe day.🙏

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Breaking News:

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE WILL IMEDIATLY START NEGOTIATIONS TOWARD A CEASE FIERE,' TRUMP SAYS AFTER TWO HOURS CALL WITH PUTIN

President Donald Trump announced after a two-hour call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War.”

“The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of,” Trump said on Truth Social, adding that the “tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent.”
“Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED,” Trump continued. He also said that Ukraine “can be a great beneficiary on Trade.”
Read More:

• .Analysis The real battle in Ukraine war right now isn’t in the skies
• Hear what Putin told reporters after his phone call with Trump 0:35
• Major sticking points unresolved as Johnson races to push Trump’s big policy bill through House by Thursday
• Live Updates Swing-district Republican raises alarms at direction of talks over Trump’s bill

Published 2:13 PM EDT, Mon May 19, 2025 - CNN -

ARE YOU READY TO SALUTE THE RUSSIAN FLAG AND SING THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM?

CANADIAN NEWS:

CANADA, BRITAIN, AND FRANCE THREATEN ACTION IF ISRAEL DOES NOT STOP MILITARY OFFENSIVE AND LIFT THE RESTRICTIONS

Israel to 'control all parts' of Gaza, Netanyahu says as aid trucks wait to enter territory

The leaders of Canada, Britain and France warned on Monday that their countries would take action if Israel does not stop a renewed military offensive in Gaza and lift aid restrictions.
"The Israeli government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching international humanitarian law," a joint statement released by the prime minister's office said.
"We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank.... We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions."
Posted: May 19, 2025 8:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray that you be well, at peace, provided for, & blessed 🙏 🌅

It is now 8:31 am, and here I am ready to begin the Newsroom report. Then I sneezed, as I sat with a runny nose and no tissues in sight. So while I'm up, I may as well make myself an espresso, which is a little strong for me, so I add a little extra hot water and milk to it, and it does the trick.

I have a really sore left hip this morning. I forgot to bring my sponge cushion; it's in the Jeep somewhere in the parking garage. Sitting on too many hard chairs, it's a good thing I didn't forget my cane; I forgot everything else. There were just too many appointments the week before; we didn't get a chance to take a complete day to take inventory.

Finally sitting back enjoying my watered-down espresso. All's good, not hard to please but sometimes I may come off like a bear with a sore butt, especially when I get stung more than once by the same bee, so to speak. But after a bit of expressing a few homemade expletives, I get back to normal. Sometimes small @#!*&^<? or 🌟✨💫💥<--The really big expletives. I have a great vocabulary in homemade expressions; if they were ever to use them in the dictionary, I would be richer than Musk.🤣

I don't know if I will have time to complete the news this morning; it depends on how far in I am before it's time to leave the hotel room for the day. Paula likes her bed in the morning. If one can stay in bed that long without obligations getting in the way, why not? If I run out of time, I will continue this evening to report more recent news items from the news networks and share them with you.

As the morning wears on, I'm beginning to feel more like a normal, somewhat functioning human being. I know I'm not a real paid news source, I'm just a blogger-newsgatherer who tries my best to express my truth and my opinions as I see them. Still, I am also open to constructive criticism and opinions from followers, NOT slamming one another's stuff in an argument. I will not put up with that; that's what's causing all the confusion out there.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

~SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCOPATHIC SADISM~

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: confusion and chaos, just like his criminally insane brain. All he wants is attention, and he gets his rocks off watching other people suffer. A SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOPATHIC SADIST.

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The combination of schizophrenia, psychopathy, and sadism is a complex and challenging area of study. While these conditions can co-occur, they are distinct and not necessarily linked in all cases. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by disruptions in thought, perception, and behavior, while psychopathy is a personality disorder marked by manipulative behavior, lack of empathy, and disregard for social norms. Sadism, on the other hand, is a preference for inflicting pain or suffering on others.

I've noticed this trait in this poor excuse for a meat suit with no soul ever since his first campaign for presidency. You can't talk sense with that type of person, especially now that dementia is also being considered as one of the possibilities on the list that seems to be growing into insanity with each passing day. Not a conspiracy theory, just a thought, what if the whole plan, along with all the war-mongering countries, are trying to establish POPULATION CONTROL

Not unlike Hitler's gas chambers deal. I do not deny there was a Holocaust, but there were also many other people, especially the French underground, who were fed into those gas chambers. Their German infidels, Russians, Scandinavians, Swedes, Poles, English, and probably even Americans and Canadians, etc., were in those encampments as well.

DON'T YOU SEE THE PICTURE? He wants sweatshops and labor camps, knowing that The Orange Pus Ball, he'll have labor camps with workers who will work for slave wages, and sweatshops. Cheap as he is, they won't even be wooden structures like the WWII concentration camps; they will be tents in zero-degree temperatures in the winter. TRUMPETERS BE WARNED, he is already removing you job, FIRING YOU BUTTS and removing all the government essentials for the country to make it dependent on him. I pray he loses the rest of any sanity he still has before it's too late.

It's as simple as this: if the people do not resist this man because they're too yellow, spineless, greedy, or are just butt kissers then you deserve to lose your freedom; if you don't fight for it, you lose it. He needs a nice pair of bracelets, and I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT DAY!

REMEMBER Hittler? Maybe we'll get lucky and we will get to see him go the same way too. The only way that bastard can get to me is to cross a border, come ON YOU orang PUKE, I'll be waiting for whoever the goon you send. I have some connections with the Men in Black. They still exist. I believe they call them the SPOOKS today, and my partner also has a few connections. Try It!

I will deliver the National News this evening. Thank you for Reading The News.

Have a productive and safe day, everyone.

The Fairy Lady

 

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This week in the sky...

When tackling a problem that has troubled astronomers for decades, it sometimes helps to adopt a change in perspective–in this case, a rotation! For a long time now, one of the biggest arguments in astrophysics has been the so-called "Hubble crisis," a conflict over the measured value of the Hubble constant.

This constant defines the rate of expansion of the universe, making accurate and precise measurements key to understanding the very nature of the universe itself. However, multiple experiments have given conflicting results. A team at the University of Hawai'i sought to reconcile these measurements with a unique spin on the problem: what if the universe rotates?

The accepted wisdom for some time now has been that the universe remains still while expanding, but the team found that a rotation as slow as one full revolution every 500 billion years neatly cleans up the apparently shifting Hubble constant. Such rotation would be too slow to detect with modern scientific instruments, but is still fast enough to affect the rate at which the universe expands and doesn't violate any known laws of physics.

While the team is still figuring out how best to locate evidence to support their hypothesis, it's a promising potential answer to this age-old cosmic conundrum–and if it turns out to be true, it'll be downright revolutionary!

Did you see this?

Could the Higgs field vary across space and time? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan questions on cosmic inflation, quantum fluctuations, and the earliest moments after the Big Bang with cosmologist Brian Keating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIM9hfbSJWU

Brian Keating on Losing the Nobel Prize & Origins of the UniversE

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Esta semana en el cielo...

Al abordar un problema que ha preocupado a los astrónomos durante décadas, a veces ayuda adoptar un cambio de perspectiva: en este caso, ¡una rotación! Durante mucho tiempo, uno de los mayores debates en astrofísica ha sido la llamada "crisis de Hubble", un conflicto sobre el valor medido de la constante de Hubble.

Esta constante define la tasa de expansión del universo, lo que hace que las mediciones precisas y exactas sean clave para comprender la naturaleza misma del universo. Sin embargo, múltiples experimentos han arrojado resultados contradictorios. Un equipo de la Universidad de Hawái buscó reconciliar estas mediciones con una perspectiva única del problema: ¿qué pasaría si el universo rotara?

La creencia aceptada desde hace tiempo es que el universo permanece inmóvil mientras se expande, pero el equipo descubrió que una rotación tan lenta como una revolución completa cada 500 mil millones de años corrige perfectamente la constante de Hubble, aparentemente cambiante. Dicha rotación sería demasiado lenta para ser detectada con instrumentos científicos modernos, pero es lo suficientemente rápida como para afectar la velocidad de expansión del universo y no viola ninguna ley física conocida.

Si bien el equipo aún está buscando la mejor manera de encontrar evidencia que respalde su hipótesis, esta es una posible respuesta prometedora a este antiguo enigma cósmico. Y si resulta ser cierta, ¡será realmente revolucionaria!

¿Viste esto?

¿Podría variar el campo de Higgs a través del espacio y el tiempo? Neil deGrasse Tyson y el copresentador cómico Chuck Nice responden a las preguntas de los fans sobre la inflación cósmica, las fluctuaciones cuánticas y los primeros momentos después del Big Bang con el cosmólogo Brian Keating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIM9hfbSJWU

Brian Keating habla sobre la pérdida del Premio Nobel y los orígenes del universo

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Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! I pray that you be well, at peace, provided for, & blessed 🙏 🌅

Here it is only 4:36 am, and I'm wide awake. One trip to many for a nature call, and that was it for me. I am used to getting up before the daylight at home, but I usually find something to do, like going to sit out in my green space and doing stuff around the house. There is not even a balcony here to stand on.

The keyboard lights up, so I only need a bit of light to navigate the room. There is no sense in keeping Paula up, too. So here I am sitting in the semi-darkness. I wouldn't think anything of it at home. Here I am in the middle of a metropolis, and it's quiet as a school on a Sunday in downtown Moosennee. There is not much to report from the newsroom.

I didn't do much yesterday afternoon except sit around and watch some TV last night, and we considered the possibility of packing up and going home early and coming back another time when stuff is open. We decided we could make a trip in the wintertime when the PATH is open on the weekends and we ain't got notin' much else to do. A room in downtown Toronto for $120.00 a night in the wintertime? Why not. If it weren't for the crappy cool and cloudy sh-t weather, we may have stayed the whole four days.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Canada Hiring US Specialists.

Provinces launch programs to recruit U.S. professionals

US brain drain: Nature's guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad

In response to US turmoil, premier establishments such as the European Research Council have sweetened incentives to attract talent.

As attacks on US science by the administration of President Donald Trump continue, countries worldwide are stepping up their efforts to recruit US research talent.

In the past few months, governments and institutions have launched programmes to attract scientists from the United States, where the Trump administration has made deep cuts to research budgets and begun dismantling science agencies.

'Make Europe a magnet'

The start-up funding is open to researchers moving from anywhere in the world to institutions in European Union countries and other nations associated with the EU's flagship science programme, Horizon Europe. "It's for anybody — and I think that's right," says Leptin. "We've been wanting to do more," she says. The US situation "was the straw that broke the camel's back to increase funding for this particular issue, at this particular time in history".

• 'Make Europe a magnet'
• How nations are attracting scientists
• European Research Council
• Poaching debate

The Joint European Disruptive Initiative, a high-risk research foundation based in Paris, has launched the Transatlantic Science Fellows scheme to attract ten managers for its moonshot programmes, "starting with scientists from the Americas", "at a time of global uncertainties".

*The Toronto University Hospital Network has launched Canada Leads, a challenge to recruit 100 world-leading early-career scientists working across virology, regenerative medicine and areas "at risk due to shifting research funding landscapes globally", a spokesperson says. The programme promises 2 years of funding and has received 300 expressions of interest since it was announced on 7 April.

The University of Montreal in Canada has launched a Can $25-million (US$18-million) fundraising campaign to recruit leading and early-career researchers, including those facing pressures in the United States. The programme — which has raised nearly half its funding target — will support researchers in areas such as health, AI, biodiversity and public policy.*

And, as some US scientists say that they are seeking jobs abroad, institutions have reported a rise in job inquiries from US researchers. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is receiving an increasing number of unsolicited applications from US scientists, a spokesperson says, as is the University of Sydney in Australia, according to deputy vice-chancellor of research Julie Cairney.

May 16, 2025

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01540-y

That about sums it up for today's discussion. Now on to the National News.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump lowered tariffs on China. Here’s why that won’t spare Americans from price hikes and shortages

The steep drop in tariff rates on Chinese goods shipped to the United States might have consumers thinking there’s significant relief in sight — at least compared to before. But in practice it might not feel that way.

With timing of the essence given the new rates are only temporary, businesses are rushing to complete orders and get products made in China on ships and planes while tariffs are at a minimum of 30%, versus 145% — and they are paying a premium to do so.

That’s bound to eat into the savings that businesses would otherwise see from lower tariffs. For consumers, that means the price of many goods from China, America’s second-top source of imports, is poised to remain elevated.

The revised rates came after US and Chinese government officials met in Geneva earlier this month, resulting in both nations lowering tariffs on one another’s goods for 90 days as talks continue.

But there’s no saying for certain whether the partial truce will last the full 90 days. Even if it does, it’s unclear what level the new tariffs will be.

Published 5:00 AM EDT, Sun May 18, 2025 - CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Canada needs more homes. Prefabricated houses could fill the void

'Prefab' house can be built quicker and better than traditional onsite builds, experts say

Terra Page's new house was the talk of her Toronto neighbourhood. That makes sense, since it was delivered on a truck.

"It was like watching a really cool giant Lego box being assembled," Page told Cost of Living.

When Page found tree roots growing in the pipes of their 100-year-old house, Page and her family decided their best move would be to demolish the house and build anew. That's when their contractor suggested a "prefab" house — one that would be built off-site, then shipped to the lot.

She was sold on the fact that it would be less of a nuisance for her neighbours, and it could be done much faster.

"It's generating a lot of buzz locally. And I think a lot of people like us had never even heard of this before or never really thought of it as an option," said Page...

What are prefabricated homes?

Posted: May 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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