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Donations

Here is some interesting facts that I was not aware of. I will stop giving to UNICEF.

Guy

Subject: RE: Red Cross Donations...vs Salvation ARmy

 

You may already be aware of this info, but interesting to read again.

 

here is something to think about......  As you open your pockets for the next natural disaster or that in Japan, please keep these facts in mind:   The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans salary for the year was $651,957 plus expenses The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.  96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause. No further comment is necessary. Please share this with everyone you can

Police Arrest Man in his Forties

             MONTREAL- Police have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with the homicide of Jolène Riendeau, who disappeared when she was 10-years-old in Montreal's Point St. Charles district in 1999.

The man reportedly is known to police.

More details to come

Incredible Photos of That Little Blue Planet 3rd From the Sun

A while back we posted a photo of Montreal taken from the ISS passing overhead,it was a great shot showing all of Montreal & surrounding area lit up at night.Well just a few hours ago I recv'd an email containing a whole whack of incredible shots taken from the same International Space Station (ISS).....Have a look for yourself,& try & remember back in the late 50's (some of us were little kids) we were amazed with airplanes (then seeing a real Jet was wild stuff) we would look up from our schoolyards or wherever & recognize those Passenger Jet Airliners.....then the first space shots ,then the Gemini, then Apollo........then on July 20th ,1969 Man Walks on the Moon......well think about all the stuff we have nowadyas that came from these special projects,just being able to converse constantly ,or cook their food, or just 'get there AND Back'  All those feets spawned our cell phones of today, our microwaves,our computers.that we use on a daily basis (& take for granted I might add).

Well just imagine what other incredible things we may see ourselves in our lifetimes that they are experimenting with daily on spaceships like the ISS........it's wild stuff.

But checkout how cool it must be to look out the window of your office (as it were) from space.........Wow..anyway enough of the longwinded BS......here's the pics.-lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

....and here is the guy that took the pictures: Astronaut Douglas Wheelock

Missing Since '99 Body of 10 Year Old Girl From Pt.Saint Charles Found

                  The body of a little girl missing from Point St Charles since 1999 has been found. Terrible news for the parents,but I suppose welcome in some way. I don't remember hearing of this case.

MONTREAL – Police announced Wednesday they have found the remains of Jolène Riendeau, the 10-year-old Point St. Charles girl who disappeared in April 1999.

Montreal police Sgt. Ian Lafrenière refused to say where or when the remains were found or under what circumstances, citing the continuing investigation to locate a suspect in the case.

“Sadly, what we can say is that it was definitely a homicide,” Lafrenière said. "We have a very serious lead and we don't want to jeopardize it and allow a guilty person to escape justice."

Riendeau's death becomes the 16th homicide of 2011 reported by Montreal police. Police considered the girl a missing person until her body was found, Lafrenière explained.

Pina Arcamone, executive director of the Missing Children's Network in Quebec, said she accompanied members of the Riendeau family Wednesday morning to a police station to receive the news.

Arcamone said the family was told police were doing tests on the remains and meeting with witnesses in the case. "We hope to have some answers very soon.

"Of course they are wondering when did this happen and what happened to their daughter, where was the body of their daughter found and, especially, who did this and why someone wanted to harm a young girl, not even 11 years old?" Arcamone said.

"It's too soon to talk of grieving or closure," Arcamone said. "They still have a lot of questions. Their pain, their suffering, their anxiety will continue until the investigation will be finished.

Lafrenière said police recieved 1,500 tips from the public about the case. "It's a very sad moment for the family."

The family was gathered together and did not plan to make any statements to the media Wednesday and probably not in the next few days either, Arcamone said.

"This is another nightmare that is starting for the family."

The disappearance of Jolène terrified her community and elicited an unprecedented response from police, community organizations and neighbours, who helped look for her. The outgoing, street-smart youngster, became a household name as almost one million posters were plastered on telephone poles and shop windows across the province.

It was on a spring afternoon 12 years ago that Jolène Riendeau returned home from school and helped her dad prepare supper. The feisty 10-year-old girl loved to peel potatoes, something she did that afternoon in the kitchen of her Point St. Charles apartment.

After she had finished, René Riendeau gave his daughter $2 so she could buy something at the local dépanneur. Jolène put on her roller blades and left home, telling her dad she would be back an hour later for dinner.

It was 4:30 p.m. on April 12, 1999.

Jolène skated to a dépanneur on Charlevoix St., about six blocks from her home. A neighbour saw her munching on potato chips outside the store a few minutes later. But instead of returning home, the young girl mysteriously vanished. No one saw her being kidnapped; no one heard cries for help and no one saw her leave with anyone.

Although Jolène sometimes came home late, her parents were particularly worried that night because she had not called them.

mharrold@montrealgazette.com

© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Jol%c3%a8ne+Riendeau+body+found+years+vanished/4723802/story.html#ixzz1LOGgGKP3

'Finally' Reality TV Worth Watching (One Episode Anyway)

President Barack Obama and key staff, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (with hand over mouth), watch Sunday's daring raid on Osama bin Laden's compound from the safety of the White House Situation Room.
Photograph by: White House handout

Sadly enough I only have cable TV and this show was only available on Satellite........lol

'Finally' Reality TV Worth Watching (well one Episode Anyway)...lol

                 WASHINGTON - Agonizing "minutes passed like days" after Barack Obama made what a top aide dubbed the "gutsiest" presidential call in years, and followed in real time as special forces swooped on Osama bin Laden.

Obama's gruff anti-terror advisor John Brennan, who hunted the Al-Qa'ida mastermind for 15 years, offered tantalizing details Monday of the high-stakes operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in which bin Laden died.

"It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time, I think, in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday," Brennan told reporters in a colourful White House briefing.

"The minutes passed like days, and the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel."

Brennan would not say exactly how Obama and his top advisers were able to follow Sunday's 40-minute Navy SEAL operation unfolding in real time in the White House Situation Room.

But the suspicion was that some kind of sophisticated communications technology was available to them, possibly with video or photographs transmitted back from the scene.

"It was clearly very tense, a lot of people holding their breath," Brennan said. "And there was a fair degree of silence as it progressed as we would get the updates.

"When we finally were informed that those individuals who were able to go in that compound and found an individual that they believed was bin Laden, there was a tremendous sigh of relief."

Brennan was also asked several times whether the national security team had been able to hear exchanges of fire in the compound where bin Laden was sheltering, but demurred.

"We were able to monitor the situation in real time," was all he would say.

The White House later released a photo of Obama and key aides watching action unfold on the operation, apparently on a screen that is out of shot in the White House Situation Room.

Obama is seen sitting to one side, staring intently at the screen. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a hand over her mouth, while other officials look on with deep concern etched on their faces.

"I can say that was during the period of time that the team was on the target," a senior official said on condition of anonymity.

Had the sophisticated helicopter-borne operation gone wrong, the stakes for Obama would have been huge, and the operation could have dealt him a political blow from which he would not recover as he seeks re-election next year.

Given the downside risk, Obama faced the kind of lonely decision that only the presidents who have made such perilous calls before can understand.

"The president had to evaluate the strength of that information and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory," Brennan, a former senior CIA officer, said.

Brennan said the most anxious moment of the operation came when one of the helicopters carrying Navy SEALs special forces developed technical problems after flying into the compound.

"When that helicopter was seen to be unable to move, all of a sudden, you had to go into Plan B. And they did it flawlessly," said Brennan, describing the moment when another helicopter was called into the breach.

Another senior U.S. official confided on condition of anonymity that the other key phases of the operation came when the officials back in the Situation Room were told that bin Laden was indeed in the compound.

In the next update, the team was told that the U.S. nemesis had been shot dead.

The exact circumstances of bin Laden's final moments remained unclear. One official confirmed the Al-Qa'ida leader was shot in the head, and some reports also suggested he took a round to the chest.

"It was very quiet, you are sitting there in silence waiting for the next information. The president was very stoic."

When Obama learned bin Laden was dead, he said "we got him guys," but told aides he wanted to be informed immediately the helicopters landed back at base — the location of which U.S. officials have not disclosed.

Brennan also revealed the U.S. did not inform the Pakistanis about the operation until its helicopters had exited Pakistani air space, and of fears that Islamabad would scramble fighters to intercept the mission.

U.S. authorities weighed the idea of some kind of direct missile strike; a commando raid similar to what was launched; and waiting longer to assess the situation at the home, said a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity.

Obama always had been determined, from his time on the campaign trail, to step up the long hunt for bin Laden, the official added.

In the end, the U.S. president made his call based on his confidence in the commanders being able to carry out the job, the U.S. official added.

U.S. forces on the scene carried out facial identification of the Al-Qa'idal leader with special techniques.

The CIA gave them a 95-per-cent assurance that it was bin Laden, the U.S. official said, noting that they also identified him through his unusual height and the fact that other people at the compound confirmed his identity.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Obama+watched+Osama+Laden+raid+real+time/4713559/story.html#ixzz1LIxboxyJ

Canadians Elect First Majority in Many Years

.....................................Majority Govt'  for Harper (could be scary) ,,,,,,,,,,,but how about Gilles Duceppe,they may not even have party status (at least as I write this (they don't)

Ignatieff has to get outta Dodge,he's done,.....and anyone with half a brain knew he was done when they made him leader,........looks like they will be starting over.......& it's about time.

Jack Layton & his party have grown to Official opposition.............

                         ...........the times they are a changing-----  Bob Dylan

Guess Who Got Killed By a Gun Today-Du Dah Du Dah ( Well Close Enough Osama Bin Done-In)

Well he'll be pulling no strings anymore,Osama checks out courtesy of a Friendly KABOOM.......he never heard it coming,sort of a Shhhsh_Kaboom.......(well 'dead meat' anyway)

Canada Votes A lot to be Proud of and Protect