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”News is what (certain) people want to keep hidden. Everything else is just publicity.”
— PBS journalist Bill Moyers.
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Carl Dow, True North, Station E, P.O. Box 4814, Ottawa ON Canada K1S 5H9.
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Britain 's Prince Harry is seen at a cricket match in April 2007. The third in line for the British throne visited a popular nightclub in Calgary's entertainment district overnight for ladies' night in western Canada, local media said Friday .
How the mighty have fallen. Once was when British royalty led their troops into battle. And if there were nothing close to home they’d go out of their way to make war — like the crusades in the Middle East. Now the crown boasts a prince who hides behind weak excuses rather than do his duty by God and Country. — 525 words.
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And now for a Newfie moment . . .
I was in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, at the end of July, 2001. A good friend was being married to a beautiful Flower of the Rock, After the ceremony one of the groom’s five brothers (as tough a bunch as you could ever meet) took me aside . . . — 407 words.
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The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece — the privatization of Iraq's oil. At the same time, unions have become the only force in Iraq trying to maintain at least a survival living standard for the millions of Iraqis who still have to go to work every day, in the middle of the war. — 1,157 words.
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An American federal appeals panel last week said the FCC could no longer slap indecency fines on broadcasters who accidentally allowed the word fuck on the airwaves, arguing that these days the word fuck is commonly used to express frustration rather than sexual obscenity. How did fuck and other words get so dirty anyway? — 639 words.
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HAVANA — Twenty or so transvestites sat in a circle discussing their woes: harassment, boyfriend troubles, the challenge of removing hair from their legs. Empathizing with them was Mariela Castro Espín, Cuba's premier sexologist. — 1,045 words
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Back in early 2005, San Francisco chose the Escape Hybrid as a replacement vehicle for some ailing older cabs. Shortly thereafter, New York did the same and purchased a small fleet of Escape Hybrids. By June of 2006, Ford started a nationwide promotional tour highlighting the advantages of the Escape and Mariner Hybrid as a taxi. Since then, Chicago and Austin have done the same. — 237 words.
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The protests in Venezuela are motivated by more than a TV station. The oligarchy fears it is losing its right to run the country. — 1,047 words.
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Prices of the mainland's three Hong Kong listed oil-related stocks - China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), PetroChina and Sinopec - surged significantly as a result of the newly discovered oil fields and the soaring international oil price. — 570 words.
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Jade at Brickell Bay, one of the success stories of Miami-Dade County's condo boom era, is leading the pack with a more dubious distinction — the most foreclosures at any condo development in the county this year. — 1,254
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A look at what others are saying this week
Time, June 18
The cover story makes the case for amnesty, the legalization of 12 million illegal immigrants who are "by their sheer numbers undeportable" and "too enmeshed in a healthy U.S. economy to be extracted." — 1,375 words.
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He could escape everything but a punch to the gut. Harry Houdini, famous escape artist, died of peritonitis brought on by a ruptured appendix several days after being punched in the stomach by McGill University student Joceyln Gordon Whitehead. Though some blamed Whitehead for the great magician’s death, medical experts today say the punch wasn’t a factor.
Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. Visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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Harold Wright, True North's Doctor of Punology, says, “ Bath Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings”
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Carl Dow, Editor and Publisher
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