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There is MichaelTotten.com for coverage of these critical times in Lebanon of course and there is also . . .

h.tp:./rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/11/23/lebanon-update/

= TG

Because Elections in the Netherlands comprise of so many parties, all in the running, it takes from three to 7 months to finally form a government.

So, the government of the day continues on as if nothing has changed for quite some time.

Takes the urgency and the thrill of the win down a few notches. Makes for calm level-headed government though. = TG

Global warming types against a project that will be green. doesnt surprise me a bit. its about money, conferences and employment for them , nothing else.

3w.cbc.ca/national/rex/rex_051206.html an old link I remembered.

It is not the real Environmentalists, like Dr. Patrick Moore, who are against a project like this. It is the ACTIVIST-Environmentalists who are against ANYTHING that doesn't begin and end with Kyoto, One World Governance, Earth Charter, the UN, Maurice Strong, Population Control, UN Taxation. In other words, Scams.

The Eyeopener, a student paper at Ryerson, pointed out the obvious disproportionate control the Muslim Students' Association has on campus. Needless to say, they've been bombarded with accusations of insensitivity, including some from the Ryersonian, the rival paper.

Also, the Eyeopener uncovered the fact that the Ryerson Students Union President, a Muslim, has very politically charged images on his Facebook account that condemn Israel for "war crimes."

Read the Eyeopener stories here: http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3040

and here: http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3039

As I wrote at my blog, the New Brunswick trial against a blogger is a serious waste of time and money. Charles Leblanc is going to walk.

Last update - 13:26 23/11/2006

IAEA indefinitely freezes Iran nuclear aid over plutonium risk

By Reuters

VIENNA - The United Nations nuclear watchdog's board of governors Thursday indefinitely blocked an Iranian bid for technical aid for a reactor project due to fears it could yield bomb-grade plutonium, a diplomat in the meeting said.

But the decision, which the International Atomic Energy Agency's board adopted by consensus after days of wrangling between industrialized and developing nations, left open the possibility of revisiting Iran's request in future. [2 years]

In a compromise hammered out in negotiations ahead of the board meeting, Iranian requests for IAEA technical assistance on seven other nuclear energy projects judged not to pose a risk of being diverted to bomb-making were approved by the governors.

w.w.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791971.html

Gregory L. Schulte, the chief U.S. delegate to the IAEA said [Iran*s]Arak [project] was *removed entirely from the program, not just deferred,*adding: *Never has Iran been so isolated.*

*The U.S. and the IAEA are not prepared to help countries build nuclear bombs,* he told reporters.
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I wonder, of the 24 or so GPS nuclear targets, if the US can determin which is the the Arak plant. = TG

"ITER - an energy project that creates no CO2 emissions. Predictably, environmentalists are unhappy because "the project would turn the focus away from current efforts to fight global warming.""

Why am I not surprised? The majority of enviro-wackos are not environmentalists at all. It's all about the big red centre inside the green rind. It's just a convenient way of bashing western values and economic liberty.

The ITER thing points directly to the notion myself and others share that environmentalism isn't an actual science, but a religion.

"12:21 PM Just saw the leader of the Party for the Animals commenting that addressing "the castration of pigs without an anaesthetic" will be her first priority now that she has entered parliament. I kid you not."

Hey !
The Dutch have hit on something,... send in Representative 8oo lb Starving Bengal Tiger to all political meetings, and you got yourself something to build a country on.

can I have a buck for every time some critic has claimed 'electric power from fusion reactor will never be achieved'?

hint: how may times has that luddite logic been dumped on digital tech applications, vehicles, aircraft, space exploration, radio transmission, athletic achievement etc etc?

the payoff would be incalculably huge. liquid hydrocarbons could be rationed for use in aircraft for instance where you need lots of energy fast to keep the thing in the air, wheras on the ground slower acceleration rates from lower power electrical devices would still suffice.

cold fusion was dissed in the 80s, probably correctly, but is that reason to abandon the pursuit of success? I think not.

NB scruffy blogger journalist:

and you think cops are supposed to defend the rights of access and freedoms built up over centuries? HA !

"100 Notable Books of the Year",from the NY Times Book Review.
www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ref=books

The one I'm going to get for Christmas:

"THE WAR OF THE WORLD: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. By Niall Ferguson. (Penguin Press, $35.) A panoramic moral analysis of an age of military-industrial slaughter."

Mark
Ottawa

****This is interesting*********

From the official Iranian Republic News Agency:

Iran to pursue human rights violation in Canada

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Thursday said that Iran will seriously pursue the issue of human rights violation in Canada.
...
Iran's anti-Canada resolution, which centers on the situation of the country's indigenous residents and religious minorities did not gain enough votes at the United Nations General Assembly's third committee meeting.

Mottaki noted that Canada had better respond to the human community about its approach to its indigenous residents.

"This was the first time Iran submitted a resolution against Canada's horrible, yet modern violation of the rights of the indigenous residents of this country," he said.
"The human rights dossier of Canada's boss, namely the US and West, in the region is not defensible. The US secret prisons across the world and its barbaric tortures at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons leave no ground for defending the human rights claims by the West.

"Iran considers the silence of world countries on the US secret prisons as their cooperation with the US regime on the issue," said the minister.

He pointed to Canada's support for the crimes of the Zionist regime and said that the black dossier of the Canadian government in support of its boss (the US), which has committed many anti-human crimes in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan as well as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons, can never be defended.
www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0611230273174516.htm
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See also:

Iranian Ambassador to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh said on Tuesday that Iran expects the Board of Governors not to politicize technical cooperation between Iran and the UN nuclear agency.
...
He termed conduct of certain states including Canada and Australia about Iranian nuclear program as 'shameful'.

www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0611213553161618.htm

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday denounced Canada's stand on the human rights situation in Iran.
...
"Countries like Canada, which itself has a history of discriminatory policies and measures against its citizens and refugees, is in no position to accuse other countries of human rights violations," the Iranian FM spokesman argued.

www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0611239652103730.htm

Haddad-Adel scoffs at anti-Iran stance of Canada on human rights

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel on Wednesday scoffed at anti-Iran stance of Canada on human rights saying that Canada took such an approach during the past two-three years.

Haddad-Adel told reporters, "Public opinion in Iran believes that Canada, like Britain, follows thoroughly the policies of the US administration."
He said the Canadian government adopted such measures, because it is not independent of the US.

"Britain lost its prestige following blind pursuit of the US.

The world thinks the Canadian government will have the same image," he stated.

www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0611223919171255.htm

Iran on Wednesday strongly criticized Canada for its human rights violations, in particular those against its native residents and migrants, and urged western states to condemn its hypocritical behavior.

Iran's representative to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, Peymaneh Hastei, said Iran had sponsored a resolution in the UN General Assembly condemning the human rights violations of Canada.

Iran, in its statement, calls on the world body to pay special attention to the human rights situation of migrants and natives of Canada for possible redress.

"Canada, which claims to be a key player in the so-called global struggle for human rights, is itself a great violator of human rights with its discriminatory policies," she emphasized.

www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0611237595135910.htm

The deceased was "aged 57". Louise Arbour is aged 59. ...-

Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years
breitbart.com ^ | 11-23-2006 | staff

A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack claimed by Hamas in almost two years.

The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, approaching troops operating to curb daily rocket attacks, the army said.

"Troops saw a woman approaching them in a suspicious manner and identified her carrying an explosive device," a spokeswoman said of the incident in the northern town of Jabaliya.

"They then threw a stun grenade in her direction but she managed to blow herself up," the spokeswoman said, adding that three soldiers were lightly hurt.

Within minutes the armed wing of the Hamas claimed the bombing. This was the Islamist group's first suicide attack since January 2005, when a bomber wounded seven Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said. ...-
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Left liberals-socialists deny that humans are individuals; you are the same.

Each of you can be squeezed into a 4'x6'x12" cell/cage in a gulag.
...-

We're more genetically diverse than previously thought
SouthCoastToday.com - 16 hours ago
By LEE BOWMAN , Scripps Howard News Service. Humans are considerably more genetically diverse than once thought, individually different not just by pairs of genes here and there, but in huge clusters of DNA ...- google news

"Wyatt Earp" ... Best Of The Day Award. More: "Your ass is grass..."

It's a wrap. Ugh, kemo sabay. ...-

“Reverse Onus!” | November 23rd, 2006

I watched “His Blondness” and “Mr McShifty” today on TV as they appeared with “Wyatt Earp” and I could not help arriving at the concluson that they were “slaves”.

How do you fight something like this?

Obviously, they had no clue.

I also watched as CTV dragged pundit after pundit onto their stage and tried to shoot Harper down. They never touched him.

Not even close.

The issue was bail hearings and I’m here to tell you now that I have watched as more than my fair share of “neer do wells” have “talked the talk” and “walked the walk” as I took the shackles off them — “many” thanks to a JP that failed to understand that protection of the public comes first. I also escorted them back into court a week later for a bail violation.

Harper made that clear today in Toronto and it was “also clear” that “McShifty” and “His Blondeness” were beside themselves as they gulped and inhaled.

“Reverse Onus” simply means that crooks have to show why they should get out of jail rather than the Crown attempting to prove they should be kept in.

“Whoa!”

“Ya but what about if they are in jail for months or years while the case progresses?”

Harpers view — “Tough luck, guys. Your ass is grass if you use a gun.”

“Have a nice day.”

And here’s a final thought. ...-
3w.jacksnewswatch.com

"Left liberals-socialists deny that humans are individuals; you are the same."

If you don't know the difference between liberals and socialists, read an elementary book on political theory.

There is ONE big problem with ITER: It's being built in France. Do we really want the world's first fusion reactor being built in a Muslim nation? ;)

$20B warning on Kyoto

Paul Vieira, Financial Post
Published: Thursday, November 23, 2006

OTTAWA - Meeting Kyoto targets will cost the Canadian economy a third of its output or force Ottawa to spend $20-billion by 2012 to buy international credits, says one of the country's leading business groups.

Jayson Myers, chief economist for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, will lay out this scenario today before the House of Commons environment committee. His appearance comes as the all-party committee studies a Liberal MP's private member's bill aimed at compelling the Conservative government to adhere to Canada's obligations under the Kyoto climate-change accord. ...-

3w.canada.com

The eco-loons are unhappy because ITER isn't their favorite make-work program. But am I supposed to happy about what is really nothing but a multinational, commie-style, government-funded energy boondoggle?

Every political question ultimately comes down to a single issue. Either you believe in free markets, or you believe in socialism.

Well, maybe the quoted objection to ITER from environmentalists needs a bit of context. Most of the objections I've heard also mention that the project may not deliver at all, and it definitely won't deliver much electricity in the next 50 years. This reactor is a research project that will produce net power output (an improvement on the current prototype) but only in the form of heat, not electricity. An actual generator is anticipated somewhere between 2030 and 2050, and widespread use would be sometime later. Depending on how soon you expect serious economic setbacks due to oil shortages and/or climate change, you might wonder whether this project has enough chance of coming to fruition before society unravels too much to complete it. As Alex mentioned, there is also the question of France's future political stability.

It sounds too utopian to me. Never mind diverting resources from fighting greenhouse gases; it's a huge diversion from taxpayers' pockets. But then again, if the estimates are anywhere close, it should cost less than the Space Station.

ITER - an energy project that creates no CO2 emissions.

Someday fusion energy may achieve zero CO2 emissions, but there is no way that ITER will be built or even operated without C02 emissions, and plenty. Splitting hairs, I know, but how many people read the links?

How to Fix Canada - on the brink.

http://www.projectalberta.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=24621&highlight=#24621

This is a gripping legal document about a fifteen year old flown from Afghanistan to *GitMO*

Against Bush , the USA and legal firms from both USA and Edmonton Canada.

Its in Acrobat PDF [damn], so not able to paste part of it here.

w.w.jenner.com/files/tbl_s69NewsDocumentOrder/FileUpload500/93/amicuscuriae_omar_ahmed_khadr_fatima_el-samnah.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/yh83wb

Part of the authorities list is the
Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms.

Quite the drama. = TG

There actually seems to be more right wingers complaining about the environmentalist complainers than environomentalists that are complaining.

It looks like the Dominion Institute's petition for a state funeral for the last WWI veteran has been successful.

A binding agreement will see that the family of the last WWI veteran will be offerred a state funeral to commemorate the veterans of that generation.

Way to go, everyone.

You are unique. You are an individual.

All conservatives know this. How? By instinct, from birth; by use of intellect, reason, observation of themselves, their family, other people.

Left liberals, socialists, communists, maoists and their ilk, deny this reality. Their concept is to level all humans, squash humans, into identical prison cages; gulags....graves.

One example: Mao China killed up to 70,000,000 (seventy million) humans in his dystopian human blood sausage factory.
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Study turns human genetics on its head
Research finds abnormal is really normal, puts in question some medical tests

CAROLYN ABRAHAM

It was nice while it lasted. But the idea that all the world's people are 99.9 per cent genetically identical -- that a mere sliver of DNA separates a Dolly Parton from a Dalai Lama -- is untrue.

An international research team has overturned the harmonious message that flowed from the Human Genome Project in 2000 and discovered more DNA differences exist among people than the experts expected.

Using new technology to study the genomes of 270 volunteers from four corners of the world, researchers have found that while people do indeed inherit one chromosome from each parent, they do not necessarily inherit one gene from mom and another from dad.

One parent can pass down to a child three or more copies of a single gene. In some cases, people can inherit as many as eight or 10 copies. ...-
(globe-mail health)

Dion organizers join Ignatieff's camp

[Last paragraph:]

"Ignatieff organizer and Liberal MP Denis Coderre (Bourassa) said there are "dozens" more officials who will announce they are switching allegiances in the coming days." (TO Star)

Coderre marched in support of Hezbollah, Muslim Islamist terrorists.

Hezbollah's aim/goal, stated/given publicly, is the extermination of Israel/ the Jews. Ignatieff said that Israel is a war criminal. These words from Ignatieff gives implicit approval to Hezbollah's aim/goal.

Coderre is the eminence grise behind Ignatieff, the Harvard intellectual. Ignatieff has sold his soul to Coderre-Hezbollah.

Ignatieff is a prime example of the Treason of the Intellectuals. ...-

“There actually seems to be more right wingers complaining about the environmentalist complainers than environomentalists that are complaining.

Posted by: Jose at November 24, 2006 06:22 AM”

That would be wonderful, if it were true.