Wednesday, December 20, 2017

"You're So Vain (Live)" by Carly Simon


Carly Simon

Inside Bell’s Push To End Net Neutrality In Canada

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Canada’s biggest media companies appear to want to put an end to net neutrality, in the name of blocking piracy.

According to a draft proposal to the CRTC obtained by CANADALAND, Bell is leading a coalition of companies that intends to push the telecom regulator to create a not-for-profit corporation that would maintain a list of websites it had determined were peddling pirated materials, and force all internet service providers in the country to block access to them. The proposal closely follows testimony Bell made this fall before a House of Commons committee.

The new corporation would be called the “Internet Piracy Review Agency” (IPRA).
The coalition includes broadcasters, movie studios, and cinema operators from across Canada. After Bell, some of the biggest names include Rogers, Cineplex, and Quebec theatre chain Cinémas Guzzo, according to emails obtained by CANADALAND. A comp lete list of companies supporting the plan has not yet been finalized. The coalition expects to file its application to the CRTC on December 19, the emails say.

A spokesperson for Rogers, however, says the company has not yet decided whether to sign on to Bell’s plan: “We’re currently reviewing the proposal.”

According to the emails, the coalition doesn’t want to get U.S. studios and broadcasters as official applicants to the CRTC; instead, the American media conglomerates would join the application after the process gets rolling.

One expert to whom CANADALAND showed copies of the draft application thinks it’s a very bad idea. “It’s enormously problematic, I think it’s legally questionable, and I think it’s terrible policy,” says Michael Geist.

Geist, a University of Ottawa law professor and internet policy expert, says the proposal goes well beyond anything he’s seen before. “This is a dramatic shift. This is a prospect of significant internet regulation being done by the CRTC and without any court oversight,” Geist says. “The only court oversight [would come] after a site has been blocked.”...http://www.canadalandshow.com/bell-pushing-end-to-net-neutrality-in-canada/

Related: Killing Net Neutrality Has Brought On a New Call for Public Broadband

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

John Fogerty "Don't You Wish It Was True"


Concord Music

High Arctic fossils reveal ancient bear's weakness for sweets

An artist’s reconstruction shows Protarctos abstrusus in the Beaver Pond site area during the late summer. An extinct beaver, Dipoides, is shown carrying a tree branch in water. Plants include black crowberry with ripened berries, dwarf birch in foreground, sedges in water margins, and larch trees in background. (Mauricio Antón) 

 Two bears living in a boreal forest in Canada's High Arctic millions of years ago munched on too many sweets and didn't brush their teeth, fossil evidence suggests...http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bear-fossils-arctic-1.4451466

Monday, December 18, 2017

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program








For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.

The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Canada's brave geese


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`Wild Geese' attack a herd of cattle


Colin Purton

Friday, December 15, 2017

Anunnaki Revealed: Finding the Nephilim in Myth, Giants Among Men - update

Gilgamesh Statue (Gwil5083/CC BY-SA 4.0)
 
Central to Ancient Astronaut Theory and author Zecharia Sitchin’s narrative, is a group of mythic beings known as the Anunnaki, whom he claimed crossed their own DNA with that of Homo erectus in order to create mankind—for the purpose of using humans as slaves to mine gold and other minerals. Today these Anunnaki are often portrayed as the equivalent of the Old Testament creator God.

But what does the cuneiform corpus actually say about the Anunnaki and other mythic beings? How does the version of these beings and their activities presented in Ancient Astronaut media compare with how they were truly represented in the ancient world?...http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/anunnaki-revealed-finding-nephilim-myth-giants-among-men-part-ii-009140?nopaging=1

Also see: 1.                                                   Sumerian God Anu The Annunaki In The Bible
            
 2. "The Eyes of that Species of Extinct Giants ..." - Abraham Lincoln

Eddie And The Cruisers 'Just A Matter Of Time' From The Movie

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

The Strangest Christmas Yet (Official Video) | Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

http://www.stevemartin.com/2017/12/more-music-videos-from-the-long-awaited-album.html

Greens Vs. The Environment

...It is illegal to shoot Golden Eagles, but if you kill thousands of them in the name of green energy, you are a green hero and get big tax breaks and subsidies from the government. The US Park Service says that there are twenty thousand Golden Eagles in the western US
The most recent survey of Golden Eagles  across four large Bird Conservation  Regions (BCRs) in the West (80 percent  of the species’ range in the lower 48  states is in these BCRs) provided an  estimate of 20,722 Golden Eagles of all  ages across the survey area.
www.fws.gov/windenergy/docs/Golden_Eagle_Status_Fact_Sheet.pdf
The Altamont Pass wind farm kills one Golden Eagle every three days, which means they have killed more than 10% of the current population...https://realclimatescience.com/2017/12/greens-vs-the-environment/

Every day this big, beautiful elk comes to this house to visit an elderly widow.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd & Alabama 'Song Of The South'

"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Best Of - Home Of Classic Music

 Alabama 'Song Of The South'

HADRIAN'S CURSE –– THE INVENTION OF PALESTINE

by Tsafrir Ronen 
 Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea....http://www.think-israel.org/ronen.hadriancurse.html

Cat saves puppy stuck in a ditch

Why do pipeline protestors ignore the input and opinion of all First Nations?

This apartment building in Singapore is insane

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psalm 137: 5&6)



Lenard Cohen VEVO

Watch the stunned faces of the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations ‘Human Rights’ Council

Kittens Swim Up To Fisherman's Boat Looking for Help


Lightning Storm Timelapse

Transient from Dustin Farrell (www.dfvc.com) on Vimeo.

Murmurations: The Mesmerizing Beauty of Birds in Flight

The art of flying - short 2 min version from Jan van IJken on Vimeo.
WATCH THE FULL-LENGHT 7 MIN FILM HERE: www.janvanijken.com

The art of flying is a short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show.
Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.

Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is?


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Seasonal romance