I'm putting together a non-partisan spread of funny [Liberal leadership] candidate photos .... Please send me your links (real photos, not photoshops) for a little pre-convention fun that I will post the week after next.
QUEBEC (CP) — A Montreal community health clinic has come under fire for excluding men from their neonatal classes to accommodate the sensibilities of Muslim, Sihk and Hindu women.
Via China e-Lobby;
Communist Embassy aide kicked out for spying on Falun Gong: Canada refused to renew the visa for Wang Pengfei, an aide at the Communist Chinese Embassy's Education Office because Wang "was caught compiling information on Canadians who practice Falun Gong and inciting students to help him" (Epoch Times)
Stop The ACLU has the full 40 minute version of Glenn Beck presents: Exposed, in case you missed it.
Add your own in the comments.
WalMart Selling Offensive S-e-x Book
http://tinyurl.com/y4xxmd
It was... but now not anymore, and I did that post just this morning.
Has WalMart heard the conservative bloggers roaring?
No,WalMart has morals.They make money catering to the masses not the immoral side of society.
I'm quite, indeed, extremely, sceptical of Epoch Times and its perspective and claims. And its data base. There's no statement from any official sources why Wang's visa wasn't renewed and the speculation of Epoch times - remains speculation.
Frankly, I think that the Falun Gong is a cult (it claims that humans are descended from aliens, and so on)with a kind of hero-worship of its founder - but - I am sceptical whether the non-renewal of the visa was because the individual was checking out Falun Gong practitioners in Canada.
They are hardly harmful to China here - and by the way, outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto, there is a daily picketing against China by Falun Gong people - all the time, all year round, and years and years; handing out brochueres etc. You hardly need a spy to find out their lists.
The Cult of Mao Tse-Tung,
aka Zhengzhong :
The mantle of Mao has passed to Maurice Strong, Canadian.
Strong is reportedly holed up in China; a fugitive from American justice.
Anyone knowing of Strong's wherabouts, notify John Bolton, Washington, D.C., USA.
Bob Rae, wannabe leader of the Liberal Party of Canada/Prime Minister of Canada, has said that Strong is his Uncle Moe.
Strong sits, not below the salt, at the Heavenly Dragon Table in Red China; Mistal Stlong is an advisol.
Rae/Strong will impose communist/one-world government rule on Canada; by using salami tactics; one slice at a time. ...-
Maurice Strong
Yuan Xingpei: The History · Charlene Barshefsky:CH · Mao Zhengzhong: A Man ... Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was born and educated in Canada. ...-
3w.beijingforum.org/en/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=394
"Mr. Strong has long-standing ties with China, including being the founder and first Co-Chair of the Canada-China Business Council."
Strong is an "advisor on International matters to Minister, State Environmental Protection Agency of China;" ...-
Rather than have classes that exclude Muslim, Sihk and Indian women because men are there and that would be exclusionary and against their human rights, why not set up some classes for them exclusively however they can invite women of other faiths and ethnicities but not their husbands. You see, if they set up their own, their rules will be respected because of their sensitivities. If it is done the other way around..... well .... that is a whole other issue, isn't it?
Before anyone jumps all over me (although good looking women would be welcomed to do so) I want to make a correction to my recent posting. Instead of referring to "Indian" women I should have written "Hindu" as everyone surely know that there are many Indian women who are not Hindu.
and in Vancouver a Muslim cab driver refuses to accept the fare of a blind man because his seeing ey dog offends his muslim sensibilities. And tomake it worse he is making his case before the provincial Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian ACLU.
Go figure, the religion of peace hates dogs.
Kate . . sorry, this means YOU !!
This notion of setting up alternative classes for women that are offended by other men is fine,if they pay for it. I do not want to have to pay double out of my taxes because of a minorities hateful beliefs. What comes next? 2 welfare offices,2 emergency rooms in every hospital? Where does it stop,when WE become completely indoctrinated?
Have you noticed that the global warmites have moved away from the words "Global Warming".
Why?
They are now using, "Climate change".
When will the global warmites figure out that climate change means?: The Weather. The weather is global.
Headline you will never see in/on the MSM:
Global warming activists deny global warming. ...-
Voices: Climate change
Toronto Star - 46 minutes ago
We asked you whether you think Canada deserves the lumps it's taking at the world climate conference in Nairobi. Here's what you had to say
Israel introduced Moses, Einstein, Marc Chagall, and other noteworthy stars to our world.
Others include, Joshua, aka Jesus. ...-
Introducing the nano battery, as thick as a strand of hair
WORLD TRIBUNE.COM ^ | November 17, 2006
TEL AVIV — A university here has developed and patented nano-battery technology suitable for military applications. Professor Menachem Nathan, head of the nano-battery project at Tel Aviv University, said the new battery, with the thickness of a strand of hair, was safer and could recharge faster. Tel Aviv University has sponsored an effort to develop and patent nano-battery technology. A team of university scientists developed the technology for fast charge/discharge batteries that eliminates fire hazards of lithium-based batteries and could mark an alternative source of power for mobile devices. "The battery would be especially sought for military applications in equipment...-
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Anyone notice the articles on Artic COOLING. If it is ok to not believe in GOD, be against religion of anykind, why can't we be against the religion of envirowackos. I think they are a cult and it is the new religion of the idiots. This whole kyoto scam is a method to transfer funds from cdn taxpayers to Strongs pockets. He almost got away with it. Rono is taking a lot of heat, (is it from global warming) over her efforts to tell the truth about the scam. The dems are in power now and it was Clinton that refused to sign it, so don't count on the US signing on. By the deepfreeze temps and snowstorms in parts of Canada, I think those predicting global cooling 20 years ago were right.
Maoist? There are no Maoists. It's just a conspiracy theory from those right-whingers.
Maoists: powered/supplied/bankrolled by Chairman Mao Strong, et al. ...-
Nepal's top Maoist on first official trip to India
IANS ^ | Nov 17, 2006
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Nepal's top Maoist leader Prachanda makes a historic visit to India where he will interact with politicians and those close to policy makers of a country that viewed him as a foe for years. As a party knocking the doors of power in Kathmandu, the various meetings the elusive Prachanda will have over the weekend here as the iconic leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist are bound to reflect on future Indo-Nepal relations. This will be the first official visit to India by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda, since his party unleashed...-
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Again,on this natal class BS. If my wife and I are very Christian and believe deeply in the bible and the pope,can we have the unmarried couples removed from the class? The presence of such pagans offend our holy eyes. A class for each and every religion,belief,hell let's be so tolerant and seperate by race too? Equality is equality regardless of race,religion,etc.Why are we always changing this simple concept to placate those who belive they are special?
Re:Funny Liberal Pics
Does anyone have that picture of Bob Rae when he was running the Ontario economy into oblivion??
If the Muslims find this so offensive with males in the class;the simple solution do not attend the classes.How can they miss something they never knew about: or cared about
having attended classes and four subsequent spawnings, I can honestly say I have never before felt as much like the third wheel on a bike.
I would have missed it for a lot less than the world.
Sorry this is the Western World with our values and beliefs, if you don't like it to bad. It's up to you to accommodate your way of life to ours , again, if you don't like it, to bad. This is our Country you bloody well better accommodate to our ways. I wouldn't be arrogant enough or that disrespecting of my new Country to demand that they change to accommodate me, why are they?
Holy egg loll: Is Prime Minister Harper of Canada a "human
rights activist"?
Will Harper win an award from the UN0?
Canadian Arbour*, is sitting on the horns of a dilama.
Mollice Stlong is discomfited, his nephew Bob Lae reports. ...-
Tense stand-off in China village
BBC ^
A Chinese village where at least three people were shot dead by police in 2005 during a land protest has again become the scene of angry unrest.
Residents of Dongzhou in southern Guangdong province are reported to have taken eight local officials hostage after a villager was detained.
Tensions mounted after police and anti-riot troops were deployed, residents told Reuters news agency.
Rural unrest, often blamed on illegal land grabs, is a growing problem.
There are thought to be thousands of protests a year across China, with farmers in villages whose land has been taken often directing their anger at corrupt local officials who skim off the profits when it is sold to developers.
'Police beefed up'
The latest protest was sparked by the detention last week of villager Chen Qian, who was hanging up anti-corruption posters when he was taken into custody, according to Radio Free Asia.
"The villagers grabbed eight government officials and have kept them locked the temple for seven days," a Dongzhou resident told Reuters. Residents were quoted as saying that a number of police vans had been deployed on the outskirts of the village.
Further details remain scarce.
Dongzhou, near the town of Shanwei, was the scene of a violent stand-off in December 2005 between the locals and police over construction of a power station, which the villagers said was being built on illegally seized farmland.
Authorities said at the time that three people were shot dead by police during the violence, though human rights activists questioned whether the real number was higher. ..-
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*Louise Arbour:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [Canadian} Louise Arbour
Ms. Louise Arbour ... was appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights by the Secretary-General and approved by the General Assembly, ...
3w.ohchr.org/english/about/hc/arbour.htm
LOL !!!
well that explains it Fred, last time I took my shepherd mix on a cab ride with me the muslim skull cap wearing cabbie scolded me for not advising the dispatcher I had a canine in tow.
so I calmly advised him to call another car over making sure I didnt get yet another offended muslim behind the wheel.
he declined.
the Glenn Beck thing is scary.
Just heard on the news that the Dutch have outlawed the wearing of Birkas or any other covering that hides the face. Look out!! This is gonna be a hot one.
Reports say that British Prime Minister Blair, of the Labour Party, a socialist party, has appeared on Arab TV with the message that the Iraq war was a disaster with civil war going on in Iraq.
Mr. Blair: watch for civil war in Lebanon.
Mr. Blair: these are Muslim terrorists killing Muslim terrorists. Admit that the Bush strategy is working: Muslims killing Muslims. ...-
Iranian group warns Lebanese Sunnis
JPost.com ^ | Nov. 18, 2006 | AP
A previously unknown extremist group has warned that "Shiite death squads" acting under Iranian religious edicts are preparing to attack Sunni Muslims in Lebanon. In an Internet statement, the group, called the Mujahideen in Lebanon, also lashed out at Hizbullah, accusing the Iranian-backed militant Shiite Muslim group of aligning itself with "Lebanon's Crusaders" to eliminate the country's Sunni community. ...-
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regarding goings on in rural China brought up by maz:
corruption was invented by the chinese alongside paper currency and bureaucracy.
the economic free hand combined with ruthless political oppression and that legacy of corruption guarantees it will be worse in the immediate future than anyone can imagine. you dont think so? what about the state sanctioned counterfeiting of brand name goods? bootleg software and CDs? etc etc?
From now to the convention,,,.. all polls, all Rae, all the time ?? By all Canada's MSM. Uncle Mo strings ??
Decima; "suggests Rae best." // "suggests Rae has more drawing power." // "apparently Ontarians have forgot." // Poll results could influence delegates. "
Why does the MSM not just come out and say it ?? Rae is the best delegate to toe the Liberal Power Brokers line and do as they direct him to do. Even if he looks silly and fake like Dithers.
Unless I am completely out to lunch, this is one of the biggest UNreported stories in Canada's short history
your being conditioned , its part of the conditioning
your being conditioned , its part of the conditioning
Online poll: A Marine has pleaded guilty to raping an Iraq girl. Has the U.S. lost the moral high ground in its war with Iraq?
vote at http://cnews.canoe.ca/
Terrorists habits. Trojan vehicles for surprise deliveries. .
w.w.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=64395
= TG
UN delegates, all 6000 of them, at the Nairobi Global Warming conference have come up with a solution. Draw the shades. Pump out massive amounts of pollution to cool us down. Holy Smokes !!
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061117/LOCAL17/611170430/1012
Sort of like the Tambora volcano of 1815. Cooled the Earth, alright !! Crops failed and people starved world wide. Snow in Ontario in July, 1815.
Kill two of the UN/Strong birds with one stone. Stop global warming AND implement population controls just like Strong's Earth Charter requires.
Hey !! For the next Kyoto meeting, why do the 6000 so called delegates not get their via 60s-era-smoke'in-DC8s ??!! Better yet, one delegate per jet a la Gore's exec-jet. Might be enough shade launched right there and then !!
''I think that the Falun Gong is a cult (it claims that humans are descended from aliens, and so on)with a kind of hero-worship of its founder''
Yeah, ET, not unlike Christianity.
W.C. (9:40PM)...
I concur. But I don't know how long it will take to get past the multicultural pap. Give Mark Steyn's "America Alone" a read, if you haven't had the chance yet. It's a good one.
In regard to Glenn Beck's "Exposed" TV show, I caught it Wednesday. Not much of a surprise, really; Beck's really on the ball on this stuff. Hopefully a LOT of people who are (were?) wearing blinkers saw the show. By the way, Glenn Beck had a full hour tonight with Benjamin Netanyahu... certainly would be worth a look when CNN Headline News repeats sometime this weekend.
I see things are looking up in Saskatchewan. Two headlines side by side in the Edmonton Journal today: Sask. sets aside $900M in rainy-day fund
and... It'll soon be OK to say 'I'm sorry' in Sask. - change law to make saying it not an admission of liability. It actually sounds like a good thing but I can't help wondering if some smart aleck won't try using it as a defense.
On the Glen Beck subject: too bad it didn't play before the election.
Came across news of a new CBC production starting - to air Jan 9 - comedy series: Little MOSQUE On The Prairie
America's Future is Red, Europe's is Green
Brussels Journal ^ | 11-17-2006 | Paul Belien
. . . it may be too late for that. The “paleocons” do not want to fight for any country but America, “neocons” have come to resent Europe for failing to stand with them in Iraq, and “blue” Liberals (the only Americans most leading Europeans feel affinity with) lack the guts to fight for anything at all, including their own hedonistic values. We can deplore this as much as we want, but, again, this is the situation we are stuck with. I doubt whether the mid-term elections showed that neoconservatism is dead. I think they announced the death of the Atlantic Alliance. The bell tolled for Europe – which makes it ironic that so many Europeans rejoiced in the results. Bacharan is sounding the alarm because she realizes America is leaving Europe. Edward Lucas does the same in Friday’s Daily Telegraph. He says that the old dictum which described the purpose of the Atlantic Alliance – “to keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out” – is now wrong on all three fronts, because “The Russians are coming, the Germans rising, and the Americans leaving. Each country seeks the best deal it can, to the detriment of its neighbours. Collective security is as badly needed as it was during the Cold War. But Nato can no longer provide it.”
Lucas’ article focuses on the old East-West relations, between Russia on the one hand, America and Western Europe on the other. There is, however, more at stake today. Who cares about “coming” Russians and “rising” Germans? Both peoples have committed demographic suicide. It are the Muslims who are coming and rising. . . . While America’s future will still most likely be “red,” Europe’s will be “green” – the colour of Islam....-
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Doctors face prison for denying right to die[UK]
This is London ^ | 17 Nov 2006 | This is London
The Lord Chancellor has warned doctors they risk going on trial for assault if they refuse to allow patients who have made 'living wills' to die. Lord Falconer's message to the medical profession told doctors and nurses that new laws will require them to end lives rather than save them. Those who decline to do so will face jail or, alternatively, big compensation claims in the courts. Lord Falconer set out the determination of the Government to use draconian penalties to enforce living wills in a guide to Labour's Mental Capacity Act for doctors, nurses and social workers. The law,...-
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The Hippocratic Oath is dead; long live nihilism/death.
"If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot."
3w.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html
Maoist words: a metaphor, from Mao, the slayer/murderer of 70 million Chinese, while "at the helm".
The Great Helmsman of the ship of state of China was: Mao Tse-Tung.
Mao Stlong knows this; Bob Lae, Mao's nephew, is prepped to become the Great Helmsman of Canada's ship of state.
Eerie/ominous words from the MSM. ...-
POLL: BOB RAE WOULD FARE BEST IN FEDERAL ELECTION
As the nine-month Liberal leadership marathon entered its final days, a new poll suggested the party would fare best in an election
with Bob Rae
at the helm. (national newswatch)...-
Mao Tse-tung: the late great helmsman
...During his career, Mao-Tse-Tung was responsible for more deaths than any other man in history...- at www.dailyreckoning.co.uk - Free daily news and views ...
3w.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/061020063.html
Who is Bob Rae?
Andrew Coyne, National Post
Coyne asks the right question; however, Coyne does not give the answer.
Let's hear the answer from Bob Rae, himself; Bob Rae is the nephew of his "Uncle Moe".
Strong is my "Uncle Moe", says Bob. ...-
Caesar's wife and the Canadian government
Bob Rae as former Ontario Premier, appointed Maurice Strong as head of ...
Rae “remembered him [Maurice Strong] as a friend of his father’s and called him "Uncle Moe". ...
primetimecrime.com/Articles/Media%20Articles/2005031515Caesar.htm
Four Grand Manan NB men guilty of protecting their community from Crack User/suspected drug dealer. Usually 3 RCMP protect people from Druggies. However, up to 90 RCMP protect the druggies from the residents of the small island.
Speaking of Primetime Crime . . .
Communism failed, so let*s try CRIME!
Speaking of China, Qwerty said,. . .
the economic free hand combined with ruthless political oppression and that legacy of corruption guarantees it will be worse in the immediate future than anyone can imagine. you dont think so? what about the state sanctioned counterfeiting of brand name goods? bootleg software and CDs? etc etc?
=== qwerty at November 17, 2006 10:15 PM
Speaking of Putin and Belarus I said . . .
Organized crime has leached well into Putin*s government.
Russian Internet crime there is huge and free-world law enforcement complain there is ZERO co-operation from authorities in Russia.
Hey you guys. That*s NOT real free enterprise commerce! = TG
PS: I bought a carton of cigs for a friend from Russia for $26.
Canada customs caught me on the second carton. Fee = $113.
Canadians doing excellent work and I have since gone straight.
Just one small example of Russian mischief. = TG
In a recent interview, Ignatieff referred to China as a “great civilization” and criticizing Prime Minster Harper because Harper feels human rights should not be ignored for a few dollars in trade.
At the same time The Times of London published an article in which China promised to “tidy up” trade in executed prisoner’s organs. The Chinese Deputy Health Minister finally admitted that the organs of executed prisoners were sold to foreigners for transplant.
I would take issue with Michael Ignatieff’s position on China. It is not a great civilization. Great civilizations do not treat their people the way the Chinese people are treated. I am sure that some wretched prisoner on China’s death row, waiting to see if he is a “match” with a wealthy foreigner in need of a liver or set of kidneys would agree with me.
It is refreshing that Canada finally has a prime minister who does not see himself simply as a salesman – but a leader.
Hizballah is closely allied with, and often directed by, Iran but has the capability and willingness to act independently. Closely allied with, and often directed by Iran, it may have conducted operations that were not approved by Tehran. Global Security
http://tinyurl.com/yk2g5s
Washington Post -Sudan: [FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, JAN. 31, 1992], (BY DAVID IGNATIUS), U.S. officials fear that Sudan, backed by money and expertise from Iran, is emerging as `a new Lebanon' from which terrorist groups can launch operations and export Islamic revolution across Africa. Another troubling sign, according to U.S. officials, is that the Iranians have named Majid Kamal, who previously served in Beirut, as their charge d'affaires in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. A U.S. official alleged that while Kamal was the Iranian charge in Lebanon during the early 1980s he encouraged the creation of the radical Hezbollah group, which was widely identified with the kidnapping of Americans and other terrorist acts in Lebanon. Washington Post
====== The Blue is beautiful website == TG
Bigg Kyoto Meeting Ends In Failure.
Only modest results.
Att: MSM.
It's Ro and Steve's fault.
Print it up and spread your emissions and your CO2.
Again: It's Ro and Steve's fault.
Here is the real headline for MSM:
Kyoto talks Fail. ...-
Big Conference on Warming Ends, Achieving Modest Results
New York Times - 17 hours ago
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and ANDREW C. REVKIN. NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 17 - The yearly United Nations conference on climate change ended Friday
with only modest results
after delegates failed to establish a timetable ...-
Mao Stlong advised the Chinese Politburo to stifle the peasants; good for their health.
Canadian Mao Kyoto Stlong didn't want the peasants to know about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper snubbing the Chinese Politburo.
No mention of bloggers? ...-
China to curb crime news on TV, radio
News Daily, UPI ^ | 18 Nov 2006 | United Press International
China will restrict broadcast reporting on vicious crimes so the country's young people have a healthier media environment, the Beijing government says. [ ... ] Government statistics show China has nine crime-reporting television channels and more than 200 programs. ...-
Commenter at free republic says:
Previously threatened http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614278/posts
At least the PRC tells its subjects that their news is being censored. MSM, dead men walking. May they fall over and rot in hell sooner. ...-
Storm clouds not gathering over Iran / Iraq / Lebanon only.
Horn of Africa is also darkening. Somalia. Ethiopia.
http://tinyurl.com/y2zzp8
Winds of War in Somalia Approach Gale Force
Somalia constitutes, or has the potential to constitute, the next battleground in the GWOT. That does not mean war is a necessity, but it is a nation in which the United Nations recognized government is already at war with the Al Qaida supported Islamic Courts Union. The ICU has openly delcared jihad against Ethiopia, whose soldiers are training Somalia soldiers.
Bush decisions re: Iraq, too hasty?
=========== TG
Harris dumps on the pro-Bono Liberals.
Is Harris an equal-opportunity dumpster urinalist/broadcaster?
BTW, Harris airs a cooking show, also. ...-
A Ho-weird choice
Otttawa Sun ^ | 2006-11-18 | Michael Harris
The federal Conservative Party is casting around for a keynote speaker for a pending leadership convention.They look high and low.
They can literally bring in anyone in the country.The only requirement is that the person somehow stands for their message and unites the faithful.In a flash of inspiration, it finally comes to Tory backroom king Doug Finley: The star of their show will be -- Karl Rove.
The collective jaw of Canada hits the floor, the media go wild. At last, the ultimate proof that the Tories were nothing but a pack of Bush-bedazzled Northern Republicans.The Liberals would suffer apoplexy on the way to their denunciatory press conferences.Spittle-flecked editorialists would slice and dice the dolts who chose Rove.
The CBC would produce political panels of the baldest, greyest wags ever seen on the tube to compile a list of better choices while offering a lament for the nation.
It could never happen, right? No one could be that stupid, right? Well it has happened, except it is the Liberals who have actually done it.
Going into a convention where job one is to convince the country that they are more Canadian than Don Messer's fiddle or Sidney Crosby's smile, the Grits have swan-dived into the sump pump: They have invited Howard Dean to be their keynote speaker. ...
When Howard Dean steps up to the mike in Montreal, you know what everyone will be thinking. Will he do it? Aw c'mon, Howard just one itty-bitty scream?The people who should be screaming are rank and file Liberals.
At least Bono could sing. ...-
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Yes, he wrote a*s, kicking thereof. ...-
"And, to put matters bluntly, the Tories are kicking our ass when it comes to fundraising.
Say what you will about their tactics, but their
"keep the gays from marrying - donate 50$ today"
letters have been remarkably successful."
(Calgary Grit)
Kyoto Talks were a FAILURE.
It's official.
Kofo Oil-For-Food-Saddam Annan UNO says it, too.
Also, the words, "global warming" are stuffed down the memory-hole. The global warmites have lost; the wackos will now be called climate changeites.
Their new slogan is "climate change". ...-
Nature News
Activists denounce lacklustre results of climate talks (Roundup)
By Tia Goldenberg
Nov 18, 2006, 19:00 GMT
Nairobi - The lack of urgency at the UN Climate Change Conference which ended on Friday came under fire by environmentalists, who said only a few achievements were made throughout the two-week meeting.
Delegates made some headway on helping developing nations deal with the effects of climate change, but the activists charged they only made small steps toward ensuring post-Kyoto Protocol measures are put in place.
'We have seen small, incremental steps forward in a belaboured process,' said Steve Sawyer, Climate Policy Advisor for Greenpeace International. 'These talks require a dramatic increase in political will.'
Their comments echoed criticism from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who earlier this week charged that there was a 'frightening lack of leadership' in climate change action around the world....-
science.monstersandcritics
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[More Good News here. The behind-the-times NYT still uses "global warming". In addition, the NYT still says/believes CO2 is a greenhouse gas. How does solar power limit global warming? The NYT headline is laughable; read the headline slowly;it is typical NYTSpeak;meaningless. What a load of crap is the NYT.]
Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
DENVER — Cheers fit for a revival meeting swept a hotel ballroom as 1,800 entrepreneurs and experts watched a PowerPoint presentation of the most promising technologies for limiting global warming: solar power, wind, ethanol and other farmed fuels, energy-efficient buildings and fuel-sipping cars.
“Houston,” Charles F. Kutscher, chairman of the Solar 2006 conference, concluded in a twist on the line from the movie “Apollo 13,” “we have a solution.”
Hold the applause. For all the enthusiasm about alternatives to coal and oil, the challenge of limiting emissions of carbon dioxide, which traps heat, will be immense in a world likely to add 2.5 billion people by midcentury, a host of other experts say. Moreover, most of those people will live in countries like China and India, which are just beginning to enjoy an electrified, air-conditioned mobile society.
The challenge is all the more daunting because research into energy technologies by both government and industry has not been rising, but rather falling. ...-
nytimes.com
Holocaust archive tells many new stories
Kansas City Star ^ | Nov. 18, 2006 | Arthur Max
BAD AROLSEN, Germany - The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.
"I saw with my own eyes how thousands of Jews were gassed daily and thrown by the hundreds into pits where Jews were burning," he said.
"I saw how little children were killed with sticks and thrown into the fire," he continued. Blood flowed in gutters, and "Jews were thrown in and died there"; more were taken off trucks and cast alive into the flames.
Today the Holocaust is known in dense and painful detail. Yet the young Russian's words leap off the faded, onionskin page with a rawness that transports the reader back to April 1945, when World War II was still raging and the world still knew little about gas chambers, genocide and the Final Solution.
The two pages of testimony, in a file randomly plucked off a shelf, are among millions of documents held by the International Tracing Service, or ITS, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
This vast archive - 16 miles of files in six nondescript buildings in a German spa town - contains the fullest records of Nazi persecutions in existence. But because of concerns about the victims' privacy, the ITS has kept the files closed to the public for half a century, doling out information in minimal amounts to survivors or their descendants on a strict need-to-know basis.
This policy, which has generated much ill-feeling among Holocaust survivors and researchers, is about to change.
In May, after years of pressure from the United States and survivors' groups, the 11 countries overseeing the archive agreed to unseal the files for scholars as well as victims and their families. In recent weeks the ITS' interim director, Jean-Luc Blondel, has been to Washington, The Hague and to the Buchenwald memorial with a new message of cooperation with other Holocaust institutions and governments.
ITS has allowed Paul Shapiro, of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, to look at the files and has also given The Associated Press extensive access on condition no names from the files are revealed unless they have been identified in other sources.
"This is powerful stuff," said Shapiro, leafing through the file containing the Russian's statement and some 200 other testimonies that take the reader into the belly of Hitler's death machine - its camps, inmates, commandants, executioners and trusted inmates used as low-level guards and known as kapos.
"If you sat here for a day and read these files, you'd get a picture of what it was really like in the camps, how people were treated. Look - names and names of kapos, guards - the little perpetrators," he said.
Moved to this town in central Germany after the war, the files occupy a former barracks of the Waffen-SS, the Nazi Party's elite force. They are stored in long corridors of drab cabinets and neatly stenciled binders packed into floor-to-ceiling metal shelves. Their index cards alone fill three large rooms.
Mandated to trace missing persons and help families reunite, ITS has allowed few people through its doors, and has responded to requests for information on wartime victims with minimal data, even when its files could have told more.
It may take a year or more for the files to open fully. Until then, access remains tightly restricted. "We will be ready any time. We would open them today, if we had the go-ahead," said Blondel. ..-
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Queston: Who is firing?
Answer: The usual suspects: hug-a-thug Liberals/NDP and the Canadian Bar Association.
What's new?
The admission from the MSM that the above suspects are the culprits who will lose their privileged positions. Toews has put fear into them.
Go, Minister Toews; kick their shins, their butts off the bench; more, and faster, please. ...-
Toews under fire for plan to let police play role in vetting judges
OTTAWA (CP) - If Justice Minister Vic Toews was looking for a fight over the best way to choose the country's 1,000 federally appointed judges, he's got one. ...
At best, the critics see the Toews plan as flawed. At worst, they fear it's the start of a campaign by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government to pack the courts with right-wing jurists. ...- cnews
Bone chilling...forget OJ.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Burnett_Thane/2006/11/19/2417550-sun.html
In the al-Qaida camps, he was known as Abu Mohamed al Amriki -- "Father Mohamed the American." And, until he was finally arrested and convicted in 2000 -- after two decades of high profile terrorism, including helping to plan attacks on American troops in Somalia and U.S. embassies in Africa -- Ali Mohamed roamed free and even protected.
Call PETA; report this to the UN Dog Rights Commishner. Killing wild dogs...tsktsk..
Who said this? The article says either a "social worker" or "an animal welfare worker". What to believe?
Where are you gonna get the guns for this "DOG SHOOT"? Librano$ Annie McLellan's GUM Registry locked all the guns away.
Call the Army... that's it... or the Cripps gang from Ttoronto-Cariibbean; loaods of guns thay have.
A dog cull; annually? Is that once a year? Why not shoot on sight? What to do with the furs? Put a bounty on the curs; yes. The furs can be exported to China. Do you need a licence to hunt snakes in Canada?
Always the same solution from the left/socialists: Tackle the symptoms; do not go after the cause.
The cause is the brutal, inhuman Canadian Indian reserve system. ...-
SOCIAL WORKER PROPOSES ANNUAL 'DOG SHOOT'
An annual "dog shoot" would help keep dog packs on native reserves from killing any more helpless children, an animal welfare worker in Manitoba said Saturday. (national newswatch)
This bounty idea has been tried before and was a total failure. Most bounties were collected by people shooting thier pets and thier neighbour's pets.The wild dog population dipped slightly and the domestic population took a nosedive.