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Date registered: January 6, 2016

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  1. 2023 Year-End Review — January 1, 2024
  2. Story of the Year 2023 — January 1, 2024
  3. Newsmaker of the Year 2023 — January 1, 2024
  4. Person of the Year 2023 — January 1, 2024
  5. Feelgood Story of the Year 2023 — January 1, 2024

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Jan 01

Story of the Year 2016

Story of the Year 2016:  “Donald Trump Madoff with the American Election after borrowing a page adolph Der Führer’s, ‘Make [your country’s name here] Great Again’ playbook”

Nobody but the National Inquirer, it’s enlightened readers, and pre-WWII Germany would have predicted the outcome of what was probably one of history’s most bizarre election campaigns.

Here is an excerpt from the page that was borrowed adolph the above-mentioned playbook:

“… with a population suffering from poverty, misery, and uncertainty, amid increasing political instability… In his speeches, Hitler offered the Germans what they needed most, encouragement. He gave them heaps of vague promises while avoiding the details. He used simple catchphrases, repeated over and over.  His campaign appearances were carefully staged events. Audiences were always kept waiting, deliberately letting the tension increase…Hitler began each speech in low, hesitating tones, gradually raising the pitch and volume of his voice then exploding in a climax of frenzied indignation. He combined this with carefully rehearsed hand gestures for maximum effect. He skillfully played on the emotions of the audience bringing the level of excitement higher and higher until the people wound up a wide-eyed, screaming, frenzied mass that surrendered to his will and looked upon him with pseudo-religious adoration.

Hitler offered something to everyone: work to the unemployed; prosperity to failed business people; profits to industry; expansion to the Army; social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students; and restoration of German glory to those in despair. He promised to bring order amid chaos; a feeling of unity to all and the chance to belong. He would make Germany strong again; end payment of war reparations to the Allies; tear up the treaty of Versailles; stamp out corruption; keep down Marxism; and deal harshly with the Jews.”

source: www.historyplace.com

That’s right folks, Melania was not the only Trump that was prone to recycling the ideas of others.

Jan 01

Person(s) of the Year 2016

Person(s) of the Year:  Syrian Hospital Staff operating in harm’s way

As millions of others were struggling to flee the carnage of war in the Middle East, these noble men and women elected to stay in support of those who couldn’t.

Runners Up:  Refugee parents struggling against all odds to protect their children by getting them out of harm’s way whether from the flames of Fort McMurray, the devastation of natural disasters, or the insanity of war.

Jan 01

Newsmaker of the Year 2016

Newsmaker of the Year:  Donald Trump

For making up, spreading and/or defending as fact, more “fake” news than anyone else we know. In the year that the term “fake news” became a reality, Donald became king.

Jan 01

(megalo)man(iac) of the Year

megalomaniac of the Year: Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad

For his willingness to do anything to hang onto his family’s 45 year control of the presidency of his country, even if that means “accidentally” bombing the same maternity hospital not once but three times in the same week.

Jan 01

Feel Good Story of the Year 2016

Feel Good Story of the YearPenny Oleksiak

This (previously) unknown 16 year-old Canadian swimmer won Olympic gold, silver and (2) bronze medals the old fashioned way – as an unpaid, unsponsored amateur that just loves her sport.

 Runner Up: No elephants were hung over the course of an International Year of Pulses that has “bean” more about brain-dead leaders and their flatlining followers.  Better still, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus retired all of their elephants from service on May 2nd of the year.

Jan 01

Sleeper Story of the Year 2016

Sleeper Story of the Year“Warm-up for Global Warming?”

The Crystal Serenity became the first cruise ship to ever navigate the Northwest Passage. More than 1000 passengers paid as much as $155,000US to participate in the historic 32 day voyage over 7,297 nautical miles.  A second cruise is being scheduled to depart in 2017.

Jan 01

Statistic of the Year 2016

Statistic of the Year:    “The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners… African Americans make up 6.5% of the American population but 40.2% of the prison populace… While a white male has a 1 in 17 chance of ending up behind bars, for black males it is 1 in 3… The American prison population rose from 196,441 in 1970 to nearly 2.3 million today?”

— a 2016 film documentary entitled. “13th” by Ava DuVernay

 

Runner Up:  Canadians owe $1.68 in household debt for every $1 they make after tax. In September, Statistics Canada reported household liabilities rose to 100.5 per cent of GDP, exceeding the size of its economy for the first time. This means Canadians now owe more than they produce with a higher household debt ratio than any other G-7 country.

Jan 01

Innovation of the Year 2016

Innovation of the Year:  Microsoft Skype Translator

This seems to be the innovation that is most readily available now for the universal use of everyone.

 See the rest of the field at: http://www.popsci.com/best-whats-new

Jan 01

Movie of the Year 2016

Movie of the Year:   Hacksaw Ridge

 A  war movie whose hero is saving lives as opposed to taking them. Caveat Exempt Her!  The movie opens with a touching romantic subplot; however, over 20,000 Americans died at Okinawa and only 7,000 of its 106,000 Japanese defenders survived. Hacksaw Ridge is extremely graphic and perhaps the goriest movie I have ever seen. The Japanese Army’s suicidal defense of Okinawa was a contributing factor leading to America’s decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.    

Honorable mention:

Food Choices: A little documentary with an important message. First choose to watch this doc and then decide what you can do today to: 1) save yourself; 2) save your money; and 3) save the planet. Alternatively you can choose the status quo (to trust the Food Processing Industry and the Big Drug profiteers to continue look out for you, your money and your planet).

13th: The 13th amendment to the American constitution abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime. This is a convincing documentary about how that caveat was and is being exploited in support of the continued enslavement of African Americans.

What everyone else likedhttp://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016&p=.htm

Over half (29) of the top 50 movies at the box office in 2016 were either remakes or sequels of previous franchises.

Jan 01

Song of the Year 2016

Song of the Year:  Humble and Kind  by Tim McGraw

In a year that has been anything but uplifting, this is an inspirational country song that is not about trucks, tractors, whiskey, divorce, and/or all of the above.

Honourable mention:              

Feel Invincible  by Skillet

Stick To Your Guns by Sick Puppies

Flotscrum’s Twenty-Twone Alternative for the Billbored for the Year 2016

 

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