Saturday, 25 April 2026

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NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Happy wet, rainy, soggy, dripply Saturday morning from Mud Puddle Central to you all! Well, ain't that tellin' the truth? We have the limp dick jetstream all across Canada, snow in the north and rain in the south, no worries about forest fires, they say. Doesn't that make you feel like throwing a brick at the radio or something?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

~ FOLLOW THE CRACKS ~

Is the species of homo sapiens suffering from senility, dying of old age on the evolutionary scale already? That shouldn't be for several billion years yet, before the final step in the evolutionary process, if you can put a time scale on the infinities.

OVERPOPULATION could and may quite well be one of the major factors in the problems we face today. I will not address it in this discussion.

If that's so, then I'm the last of the Mohicans that's still got an operational noggin, and everyone else is jumping off the precipice like lemmings! "Oh me, Oh my! Wasn't that a party!" ♪♫♭｡♪˚♬𝄞 Here I sit on my butt on a tuffet, having a puffit while dusting off my dunce hat as I watch the Day of the Lemmings Show🤡 𓉴

Really, though, it's like I'm watching a very large automaton falling apart in little pieces. It is tearing itself apart piece by piece. Man has reached the brink in technology and science to the point where he or she has already taken a peek under G-d's kimono.

Attaining this marvelous technological and scientific level, we should be sufficiently advanced to comprehend what is happening and stop it. We are allowing mentally ill people to feel joy in destroying the good, and sane people CRINGE at the actions of the insane, but do nothing to end it.

Maybe we are at the doorstep to Armageddon. If so, then go ahead, by all means, step into the theater of horrors. I just happened to fall into the right cracks at the right time, and I see what's really in those cracks. I have some difficulty remembering the small stuff in the temporal world we share, e.g., taking my pills on time, when there is so much more to think about. But I have an excellent memory for the things I discover in the cracks outside our usual endeavors, where most others don't even see the cracks, let alone the contents within them.

Maybe it's like Brian Cox said on TV last night, "Don't worry too much if you don't understand me, I'm sometimes not sure if I understand what I am saying myself."

BREAKING NEWS:

The law sets a 60-day limit on unauthorized wars. Will Trump respect it?

A post-Vietnam law puts a 60-day clock on the use of military force without congressional authorization.

The war in Iran – for which the Trump administration sought no approval – hits that 60-day mark May 1, according to the text of the law, the War Powers Resolution, but it’s not at all clear what will happen next.

The law lays out a timeline for undeclared wars:

First, 48 hours. The president must notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing the armed forces “into hostilities” and explain the scope, justification and likely duration of the effort...

The precise deadline is a matter of debate:
The law has never been used to end a military action:
Reagan compromised to keep US troops in Lebanon:
Obama redefined ‘hostilities’:
Clinton said the check cleared:

Read More:

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

- CNN -

‘Nothing feels normal anymore’: How everyday Iranians are coping with war

When bombs started falling on Tehran in February, we heard much about the political ramifications, including the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.

But what about the ordinary people who call the capital home? Maryam Rahmanian, an Iranian-American photojournalist living in Tehran, wants to tell their stories. She took portraits of civilians who decided to stay in the city, asking them what the war meant to them and how it has affected their lives.

“Some people had to keep working. Some stayed home and endured the hours in uncertainty. Some were focused on protecting loved ones. Others tried to hold on to a sense of normal life as that life became increasingly fragile,” said Rahmanian, who works in Tehran with the permission of the government. “These stories do not offer a complete account of the war...

Salemeh, 35:
Akram, 63:
Rezvaneh, 22:
Sara, 39:
Sadra, 33:
Azadeh, 50:
Mobina, 26:
Mahtab, 35:
Bahareh, 26:
Sama, 45:

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PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2026, 8:30 AM ET - 46 min ago

- CNN -

Trump is using the Iran war to take more control over business

The president has already turned the federal government into a major shareholder

President Donald Trump considers China the country’s biggest rival. But he also seems to view it as a model where the state calls the shots on who gets ahead in business. Since returning to office, Trump has taken a more direct stake in American businesses than his predecessors — especially the Republican ones — turning the federal goverrnment into a major shareholder.

While it’s still nowhere near China’s state-directed market economy, it’s still closer to it than the U.S. has typically been. America’s investment portfolio currently spans 16 companies with $21 billion invested so far, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The roster includes smaller stakes in Intel Corp. — the single-largest federal commitment— and rare-earth mineral companies such as MP Materials among others.

Now he’s poised to use the Iran war to exert more power in the economy. The Trump administration is galloping ahead with a pair of bailouts for Spirit Airlines and the United Arab Emirates...

• With Trump knocking down wall after wall separating business and government, that critique appears prescient.

Apr. 25, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

Court defers deportation of truck driver who caused fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu's application accepted by Federal Court judge at hearing on Friday

Days from being deported, an 11th-hour decision by a Federal Court justice on Friday means that Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who was found responsible for the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018, can stay in Canada for a little while longer.

Sidhu was behind the wheel of the semi-truck that blew through an oversized stop sign with a flashing yellow light, right into the path of the Saskatchewan junior hockey team’s bus, on April 6, 2018. The collision killed 16 players and staff and injured 13 others. He was scheduled to be deported and board a plane for India early Monday morning...

Court hears application to defer deportation:
Differing perspectives:
Deportations from Canada on the rise:

Posted: Apr 24, 2026 7:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours ago

- CBC -

Carney talks CUSMA review with Mexican president as official negotiations loom

Mexico has an official start date for trade talks with U.S., but Canada does not

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday as the two countries are gearing up for the North American trade agreement review this year.

The two leaders touched on a number of topics, including the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), according to a readout from the Prime Minister's Office.

"They agreed to work in close coordination to address shared economic priorities and challenges, and deliver greater certainty, security, and prosperity for their peoples," the readout of the phone call said...

WATCH | New U.S. trade advisory panel to meet after a week of jibes from Trump officials:

WATCH * Tariff relief for aluminum manufacturers hinges on;