…..A First Nation in Canada’s Saskatchewan province is treating a now-defunct residential school as a “crime scene” following the discovery of 751 unmarked graves just weeks after a similar discovery in British Columbia prompted a fresh reckoning over the country’s colonial past…….Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation said that the graves were found on the site of the Marieval Indian residential school, also known as Grayson, after a search with ground-penetrating radar was launched on June 2nd……“This is not a mass grave site. These are unmarked graves,” said Delorme at a press conference on Thursday morning, adding that the discovery has “reopened the pain” that many suffered at the school. “The grave site is there. It is real.”…..from the 19th century, more than 150,000 First Nations children were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society…….the children were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and thousands died from disease, neglect and suicide……Cowessess First Nation said that the number of unmarked graves at the site is “the most significantly substantial to date in Canada”…..it is not known how many of the remains belong to children or if any adults were also buried, Delorme said…..he added that local residents alleged that the graves headstones were illegally removed. “We didn’t remove these headstones. Removing headstones is a crime in this country. And we are treating this like a crime scene.”…..last month the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia……the Marieval school operated from 1898 to 1996 about 87 miles east of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan….The Cowessess First Nation took over the school’s cemetery from the Catholic church in the 1970s…….“We are seeing the results of the genocide that Canada committed – genocide on our treaty land,” said chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nation. “Canada will be known as a nation that tried to exterminate the First Nations. Now we have evidence.”…..in 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission described the schools policy as one of “cultural genocide”….in recent weeks, there have been growing calls for the Catholic church, which operated many of the schools, to release its records on the institutions…….“Our people deserve more than apologies and sympathies, which we are grateful for. Our people deserve justice,” said Cameron…….The Assembly of First Nations national chief, Perry Bellegarde, who comes from Little Black Bear First Nation in the province of Saskatchewan, tweeted that the latest discovery is “absolutely tragic, but not surprising”…….“I urge all Canadians to stand with First Nations in this extremely difficult and emotional time.”…..the grim discovery brings the total of unmarked graves discovered in the past month to about 1,000, with experts predicting more will come as provincial governments announce funding to help Indigenous communities conduct their own searches……“We will do a search on every Indian residential school site and we will not stop there. We will also search all of the sanatoriums and Indian hospitals and all the sites where people were abused or neglected and murdered,” said Cameron. “We will tell the stories of our children of our people who died, who were killed by the state, by the churches. We won’t stop.”…..The Canadian government formally apologized in parliament in 2008 and admitted that physical and sexual abuse in the schools was rampant…….“I always wonder how a person who’s supposed to be a Christian person, a priest, can abuse a seven-year-old girl,” Carol Lavallee, who was taken from her home at age six in a cattle truck to attend Marieval, told a provincial healing gathering in 2007…….many students recall being beaten for speaking their native languages; they also lost touch with their parents and customs…….Indigenous leaders have argued that the legacy of abuse and intergenerational trauma persists today as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on reservations…….“A lot of the pain that we see in our people right now comes from there,” elder Florence Florence Sparvier, a former residential school student, told reporters at the press conference. “They made us believe we didn’t have souls.”…..both Cameron and Delorme said the work was only the beginning in a long process of identifying and properly commemorating those who died…….“We will find more bodies and we will not stop until we find all of our children,” said Cameron……this article was shared by The Guardian……Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged Pope Francis to come to Canada and apologize for the church-run boarding schools where hundreds of unmarked graves have been found….you have to admit….if you take a look back in history…..when it comes to the Catholic Church….it seems like it’s one of the most…..I really don’t want to say….most evil and violent institutions/corporations….but if I can come up with a new way to describe Catholicism…..I’ll let you know.

REMEMBER WHEN I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE 700+ HIDDEN GRAVES THEY FOUND IN CANADA?…..The ones the Catholic Church tried to keep hidden?…more churches in Canada are being burned down after the latest grave was discovered at a residential school……the Polish Catholic Church report list includes sexual abuse of over 368 children by Catholic priest in the last 30 months…..Native American victims of sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school are fighting for justice…..In 2002 the Catholic Church apologized for sexual abuses, including adultery, homosexuality and child abuse by 200 priests over the previous 20 years…..in 2003 at least 34 priests were suspended in a sex abuse scandal involving sexual harassment of women…..twenty men were from a single diocese….and still nothing happened….Pope Francis said he was not going to Canada to apologize…..but an unmarried Catholic school teacher gets pregnant…..and she’s fired from her job.

DID THE BEATLES TAKE DRUGS?…..Huh?…..I’ll assume this person never listened to  the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album….and definitely wasn’t around to grow-up during the 60’s….because damn near every musician back then….was high…or trippin’…..or both.

AND YO!…..YOU CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS….Still don’t believe?…..the temperatures in Canada are hovering at….46.6C….that’s 115 F…..do you have any idea what that feels like when you walk down the street?…..like my friend Dennis said;…. “That’s a chicken in the oven!”….Czech Republic villages were hit with a tornado last week….and that’s never happened before….it barely snowed in Alaska…..moose were sweating….the west coast is on fire….Oregon and California are suffering and dealing with the temperature change…..107, 109, 114 ,122……it’s so hot….the roads are buckling and power cables are melting……storms that never happened before….are popping up everywhere around the globe…..water shortages…..crops are not growing…..animals are dying like crazy because of the heat…..Jacobabad, Pakistan temperature reached 52C….that’s 126F….that’s hotter than the human body can withstand…..sometimes it’s so hot in Hamburg, Nicole and I say,….forget going outside….the inside of our apartment is cooler….so yeah, it’s happening and we “ALL” better smarten up and do something about it….QUICK!…..because people are dying.

“WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE WITH…..WE’RE DOING THE COSMIC SLOP”…..By the Funkadelic……and while you’re in the funk area…..and you feel like exercising……or wanna hang out……in 1974…….for a minute……blast….. “Standing On The Verge of Getting On”…..if that doesn’t get your butt moving……you broke!…..moving on……

UNPRECEDENTED HEAT, HUNDREDS DEAD AND A TOWN DESTROYED…..Climate change is frying the Northern hemisphere…..and there are more than 240 wildfires across British Columbia…..roads are still melting in the northwest….residents in New York are told to…. “NOT” use washers and dryers or air conditioners….for the sake of the power grid…..Russia is hovering around 34.8 degrees….and farmers are trying to save their crops….a weather station near the Artic circle recorded 38…..India is in the 40’s….and the heat and the late monsoon storms are hurting the farmers….Iraq made last Thursday a public holiday…..because 50 is way too hot to work or study…..and the electricity system collapsed….a mudslide slammed into a town called Atami….in Japan…..and scientists are saying….this could happen every year up to 2100.