Another full day of work, and then some – so you’re on your own for a few hours.
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The Top 100 SDA Commenters list (by frequency and volume) for the first four months of 2008, based on the 807 articles, 2,716 commenters, and 40,407 comments so far this year (GMT), is now available here: sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/04/sda-commenter-statistics.html
That’s the stuff Kate, some body’s gotta work, we can’t all be farmers!
Thank you Vitruvius. I will now attempt to get a freakin’ life. Geeze.
Canada reaches out to Taliban
After years of refusing to negotiate with insurgents, soldiers in Kandahar put word out they want to talk
KHENJAKAK, AFGHANISTAN — Canadian troops are reaching out to the Taliban for the first time, military and diplomatic officials say http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080501.wAfghan01/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
Finally some common sense.
This is classic guerrilla war. The USA didn’t talk to the vietcong yet eventually they did. The french refused to talk to the algerian FLN, eventually they did.
It is mostly an ego thing. Military people want to show they are macho by not talking to the ennemy. How sad.
AQS: It would be best if you commented using verifiable facts, rather than your own imagined prejudices.
It is mostly an ego thing. Military people want to show they are macho by not talking to the ennemy. How sad.
I’m sure some Jewish people tried to talk to the Nazis during WWII, just before they were taken to the gas chambers…
I’m sure some of the people on 9/11 tried to talk to the terrorists just before their airplanes were driven into buildings…
Talking to the enemy is over rated.
Well, Well, Well – seems the science isn’t exactly settled after all – guess the snow and cold temperatures have caused the “Global Warmers” to predict now that
“Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor”
Editorhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/30/eaclimate130.xml
Until 2015 because of “naturally occurring climate lulls”.
Guess that is when they predict the next warm weather is going to happen.
Ya gotta laugh.
More AGW-like blather/nuance from the economic voodoosayers. FPCanada throws in the towel — “at least so far”.
Mild skirts are in fashion with the pessomists.
Expert says, “”While most of the discussion has focused on the U.S., which most agree is in at least a mild recession,”
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“Canada edges closer to recession as growth slows
OTTAWA — Canada has edged closer to a recession, while the United States appears to have skirted one — at least so far.”
The key words from the report “Italian Social Movement” contain the code word “Social” which shows that fascism is socialism. Call it the Italian Socialist Movement. It’s a mirror image of German National Socialism.
In Rome, “Gianni Alemanno, a member of Alleanza Nazionale, was elected Mayor of Rome”. Alemanno means German.
Socialism = fascism = nazism.
Watch for anti-semitism to follow.
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“Mussolini follower Gianfranco Fini takes top job” http://tinyurl.com/6bwkkn (times)
Guess the recession is here for the TORedStar group. G-Mail Media reports with satisfaction?
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A Quebec superior court judge has ordered the destruction of the ballots from the 1995 referendum. Too bad and I hope this gets appealed. Those ballots need to be examined to determine just how fraudulent the “yes” side vote counters were in certain parts of the province. The margin of victory for the “No” was “officially” stated as 50.6% but there is speculation that thousands of “NO” ballots were fraudulently rejected the number which could have made the official margin more like 54%. Just imagine had they rejected a few more thousand ballots that we would now have a banana republic in North America with a situation not much different than what Robert Mugabe is doing in Africa.
Got my final message from the CBSC/CTV about Bob Fife/”knuckle draggers”.
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Dear Mr. ——:
I have received your complaint of April 4th to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) who in turn has forwarded it to CTV News for a response.
First, I want to thank you for choosing CTV News as your source for news coverage and for taking the time to share your concerns about our National Newscast. We at CTV News take all concerns very seriously.
Your e-mail expressed concern over an item you watched on our newscast on April 3rd which involved a discussion with our Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife.
You expressed concern that Mr. Fife referred to some members of the Conservative caucus, as “knuckle draggers”.
There’s a fine line between political analysis and political commentary. It’s critical to look at Mr. Fife’s comments in the larger context of his overall reporting of the story that evening. The introduction to and the actual report presented before the discussion were delivered in a fair and balanced manner outlining the story of the newly found “party tapes” and the issues facing the Harper government.
The discussion that followed the report was intended to provide viewers with analysis, which helps them understand a particular story. We view analysis as a journalistic obligation. For this story, Mr. Fife drew attention to the potential political perils that the contents of the tape might cause the minority Conservative government. It has been widely reported and widely accepted that the federal Conservative caucus and the Conservative Party of Canada has members who hold a wide range of divergent views on the contemporary issues surrounding the tapes. Mr. Fife highlighted the difficult task facing the Prime Minister of maintaining caucus solidarity against these widely divergent views. The colourful language Mr. Fife used was far from his own opinion, but rather, based on sources within the Conservative Party itself.
The use of simple and colourful language can help make a difficult political story much more understandable for a general television news audience. There is a risk that some may be offended by such language, especially those who may be active political partisans. But to muzzle such freedom of expression would be a disservice to our viewers.
While we regret that you were offended by this report and that was certainly not our intent, we believe that this segment was in accordance with all applicable industry codes, guidelines and legislation.
While you suggest that our report was biased, you should be aware, that CTV also receives complaints from Liberal and NDP supporters who also complain that our news coverage is biased against their parties. Politics is a very sensitive and complex issue and it is very difficult to satisfy all viewers all the time. However we can assure you that the report was never intended to be biased against or disparaging of the Conservative party or its supporters.
I hope this explanation goes some way in addressing your concerns and once again I thank you for choosing CTV News as your source for News.
CTV is a member in good standing of the CBSC and adheres to its guidelines.
Sincerely,
via e-mail
Wendy Freeman
Vice President
CTV National News
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Based on sources within the Conservative Party itself? Why didn’t he reveal that “so-and-so from the CPC says there are lots of knuckle-draggers in the party”? Balanced, my hindquarters.
A couple years ago on CFCF 12 Montreal, they showed a whole table covered with some of the rejected ballots,
They even did some close up, and guess what?
They were perfectly good ballots.
That is why some people want them destroyed.
The use of simple and colourful language can help make a difficult political story much more understandable for a general television news audience.
—Wendy Freeman Vice President, CTV
Then saying homosexuals carry diseases under their fingernails is also a simple and colourful way of making people understand that AIDs and other diseases are spread mostly by homosexuals,
right Wendy?
Fife did not say “sources within the Conservative Party say…….bla bla bla.” What he said is “WE ALL KNOW that there are some knuckle-draggers within the Conservative Caucus” First of all just who the hell is he talking about when he says “WE”? Second – names please? This explanation by Wendy Freeman is a crock of horse crap and CTV should not be let off the hook on this.
For Yom HaShoah:
A.B. Yehoshua, An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism
Does Jew-hatred stem from a single root? Dare one raise such a question regarding a phenomenon-called antisemitism since the end of the nineteenth century-that has persisted for so long in so many forms and with so many explanations? A hatred that dates back to antiquity and has remained fixed for thousands of years in a world that is constantly changing; a hatred and hostility toward Jews that is embedded in different nations and cultures and shared by members of different religious faiths, even those at war with one another, such as Christianity and Islam; the hatred of Jews that persists not only in totalitarian and absolutely secular societies, but in liberal democracies as well?
Leon R. Kass, Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
Scientific ideas and discoveries about nature and man, perfectly welcome and harmless in themselves, are being enlisted to do battle against our traditional religious and moral teachings and even our self-understanding as creatures with freedom and dignity. A quasi-religious faith has sprung up among us-let me call it “soulless scientism”-which believes that our new biology, eliminating all mystery, can provide a complete account of human life, giving purely scientific explanations for human thought, love, creativity, moral judgment, and even why we believe in God. The threat to our humanity today comes not from the transmigration of souls in the next life but from the denial of soul in this one; not from turning men into buffaloes but from denying that there is any real difference between them.
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this has gotta be this year’s big “barney fife” moment… “honest, sarge… i was reachin’ for my glock…”
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“Rome’s new mayor promises purge of migrants” http://tinyurl.com/5328dh (telegraph)
The fascist-socialist Mayor is singling out immigrants, The Other, for stigmatizing. Will the Jews be next? Will the axiom hold? The axiom is: Scratch a socialist-fascist, find an anti-semite.
The report also includes a pic:
“Mayor Gianni Alemanno waves an Italian flag from Rome city hall”
It’s not difficult to change the Italian flag to the fasces pictured here: http://tinyurl.com/683bb9
Efraim Karsh, 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—The True Story
Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are obsessively condemned by the international community; and whose right to exist is constantly debated and challenged not only by its Arab enemies but by segments of advanced opinion in the West.
During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of the Jewish state has become a cause célèbre among many of these educated Westerners…
(PDF warning; 8 pages) Dr. Ondrej Beranek, The Sword and the Book: Implications of the Intertwining of the Saudi Ruling Family and the Religious Establishment
Coming to the capital of New Brunswick? Bring a boat.
Check out the new Canadian Olympic Uniforms over at CBC. God, the’re worse than those others with the red berets and all. These make all the men look like Flamers and the women Butches.
Oh, and see how environmentally correct they are!
Rights complaint an outrage
YELLOWKNIFER, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9
From: Inemesit Graham,
Yellowknife
I really hope the NWT Human Rights Tribunal doesn’t vote in favour of Roger Deranger (Article: “Dene man claims bar discriminated
against him,” April 25).
He’s claiming that refusal into the Raven pub three out of 50-100 times where he was allowed entry was racist. If the Human Rights Tribunal votes in his favour that would be the true racism. If a Caucasian male had made this complaint I’m pretty sure it would have been dismissed right away. Why is it that if the bar staff accessed him as intoxicated and refused him entry automatically it’s a racial thing?
If they were truly racist would they not have disallowed him entry on all those other occasions?
Also, the fact that he’s asking for $50,000 in compensation outrages me. I make that in a year and he believes he’s owed it just because he couldn’t go dancing one night? Please! I will be going to the Human Rights Commission if he gets a penny of that!
* “ulianov chortles… 2500 Taliban Jacks”
hey, gomer… negotiate this… “As for brilliant new tactics, what’s really left… besides rounding up another lot
of mentally handicapped villagers… duct taping semtex to their battered,
undernourished bodies and sending them out into public venues?”
yeah… it’s a scream.
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National Post editorial today
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Why? Whether or not Elections Canada means to leave the appearance of bias against the Tories, it has. Its actions look like those of an agency with a vendetta against the Tories and their leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. http://tinyurl.com/4y94dh
Socialism’s social justice and equality;
the levelling of socialism. How was this public disclosure of private information justified?
The answer: Cosi fan tutte, aka everybody does it. “This already exists all around the world, you just have to watch any American soap to see that.”
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“Italy posts income details on web
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376608.stm
Any accountants out there ? Is the Ontario’s Teachers Pension Fund a Ponzi Scheme ?
Total assests $106 Billion and 271,000 members gives $390,000 each to yield, what, $40grand a year for retirees ?
And, [The reality for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is that it has a relatively low worker-to-retiree ratio with only 1.6 working teachers for every former teacher drawing a pension.
[..]
The situation is not getting better. Last year, 5,600 teachers took retirement and by 2017 an additional 46,000 retirees will be collecting their pensions.] Ottawa Citizen
And by 2017 and additional 46000 will retire, leaving less than one working teacher for every retiree. (Assuming falling birth rates do not require many new teachers in the future.)
Is this all viable ? Why do I care ? Because, maybe the taxpayer be called upon to bail the Ponzi out ? Also, remember, this is a group that is exposing our children to the Global Warming Scam – now delayed by at least 10 years. http://www.otppb.com/web/website.nsf/web/canwest_teachersearningcurve
Also, from hotair.com
‘Germany uses Ponzi schemes to support older Ponzi schemes’ http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/01/germany-uses-ponzi-schemes-to-support-older-ponzi-schemes/
Leftist asshats/terrorist sympathisers..please note..the only ‘talking’ that will take place is to seperate the wheat from the chaff.
The convo’s will be short and sweet, and somewhat along the lines of ‘Support us, and your lives will be better, support the Taliban and all bets are off.Make arrangements.’
I’d like to rub your nose in a pile of twisted metal and seared flesh, where an innocent Afghani child once stood..your preaching, and siding with the enemy is most unwelcome.
Charles MacDonald: Thanks for the Efraim Karsh link above. I’ve read 2-3 of his books. He’s superb.
For your own edification may I recommend a slim volume, part of the Essential Histories series (Opsrey Publishing): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948. Complete with excellent maps and photogs. Approx. 90 pages. Which reminds me, now that I’ve taken it down from the shelf, I didn’t finish it.
Melanie Phillips, Happy 60th birthday, Israel: well done for surviving
What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that six decades thence Israel would be encircled by its enemies, hopelessly outnumbered and fighting for its existence? He would surely have said: so what’s new?
Next week, on 8 May, Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of that declaration. With every decade that it clocks up, people ask the same question: will Israel still be there for the next one? It is indeed astonishing that it has not only survived but is flourishing…
Efraim Karsh, The Diplomatic Dance with Hamas
While the hope that Hamas could somehow be lured away from its genocidal agenda seems to be gaining wider currency, not only is the destruction of Israel not a bargaining chip, it is the heart of the matter. Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, sees the struggle for Palestine as neither an ordinary political dispute between two contending nations (Israelis and Palestinians), nor even as a struggle for national self-determination by an indigenous population against a foreign occupier. Rather, it sees Palestine as but one battle in a worldwide holy war to prevent the fall of a part of the House of Islam to infidels.
Thanks, MND. You’ll enjoy Karsh’s smackdown on Hamas as well.
Grits are Liberals.; aka the Party of Ad$cammers Chretien, Martin,Jr., and Citoyen Dion.
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“Tories raise 5 times as much money as Liberals
OTTAWA – Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have raked in five times as much money from four times as many donors as the Liberal party during the first three months of this year.
Financial returns filed with Elections Canada show that the Tories raised $4.95 million from 44,345 contributors. At the same time, the Liberal party raised only $846,129 from 10,169 contributors.
The dismal results suggest the Liberals, traditionally the party most reliant on corporate largesse, have still not adapted to the prohibition on corporate donations imposed in 2004.
Once Canada’s most efficient political money-raising machine, the Liberals actually brought in less than the New Democratic Party during the first quarter of 2008; the NDP raised $1.1 million from 13,329 donors.” (canpress)
Donations are a clear sign of support to be sure. The true scandal was Cretin’s move to give political parties cash from the nation’s coffers.
Now at $1.75 per vote, these useless partisans have now wrapped their lips around your wallet – whether you want them there or not.
Supporting a political party of your choice shoudl be exactly that. Your choice. The parasitic Libranos got their laughs in, and continue to.
Suckers.
Avoid US dollar value shares?
Stick to Canada, Netherlands, German, India and more reliable currency values?
Addison Wiggins thinks so, because . . .
** Today, there are simply too many dollars in circulation for the currency’s own good. Why? Americans have been living beyond their means for more than two decades. The U.S. dollar’s problems stem from a single cause. **If there’s a bubble,** wrote David Rosenberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, ** it’s in this four–letter word: debt. The U.S. economy is just awash in it. **
You’ve seen it firsthand: John Q. Public now holds more credit cards and outstanding loans – with a higher and higher total debt load – than ever before. Outstanding consumer credit, including mortgage and other debt, reached $ 9.3 trillion in April 2003 – a significant increase from its $ 7 trillion total in January 2000 – but by the third quarter of 2007, debt had nearly doubled since 2000, to $ 13.7 trillion. With consumer spending alone responsible for approximately 70 percent of U.S. GDP, that’s quite a hefty personal debt load.
The corporate debt picture is no better. American companies have never depended so much on sales of their corporate bonds. Between 2002–2007, investment – grade corporate bond sales increased nearly 60 percent, growing from $598 billion to $951 billion. But junk bond sales for that same period broke the bank, surging from $57 billion to $133 billion.
The third leg of the debt problem, following consumer and business debt, is Uncle Sam. Government debt as of November 7, 2007, officially passed $ 9,000,000,000,000. That’s about $ 30,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. This total includes debt owned by many types of investors, from individuals to corporations to Federal Reserve banks and especially to foreign interests. (By 2004, foreign central banks had stockpiled more than $ 1.3 trillion worth of dollar – denominated Treasury bonds and agency bonds at the Federal Reserve. By 2007, foreign debt had nearly doubled, to $ 2.033 trillion.)
What the $ 7.8 trillion figure does not account for are items like the gap between the government’s Social Security and Medicare commitments and the money put aside to pay for them. If these items are factored in, the government debt burden for every American rises to well over $ 175,000. In 2005, the Methuselah of investment mavens, Sir John Templeton, then 93, said you should get out of U.S. stocks, the U.S. dollar, and excess residential real estate. Templeton believed the dollar would fall 40 percent against other major currencies, and that this would lead the nation’s major creditors – notably Japan and China – to dump their U.S. bonds, which would cause interest rates to run up, thus beginning a long period of stagflation. He was right.
Don’t let his age fool you – Templeton was still sharp in 1999 when the financial industry hacks in Florida were urging their customers to buy more tech stocks. Templeton warned that the bubble would soon burst. He was right; they were wrong. Of course, he was only 87 back then. He is almost certainly right again. Other great investors, too, are getting out of the dollar. For the first time in his life, Warren Buffett is investing in foreign currencies.
George Soros, who made a fortune selling sterling in the 1992 ERM crisis, warns that the U.S. system could * blow up * at any time. Richard Russell, the influential editor of the Dow Theory letters, speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, warned: *If ever there was a crisis that could shake the global economy – this is it.* Jim Rogers is teaching his daughter to speak Chinese. When old – timers nod their heads in agreement – especially when they happen to be the most successful investors in the world – their advice may be worth listening to.
American consumers, companies, the U.S. government, and the country as a whole owe more dollars to more people than ever before. But perhaps the greatest threat to the U.S. economy is its foreign creditors. There is – or should be – a limit to the number of dollars foreigners are willing to buy and hold and thus a limit to their willingness to service our credit habit. Why? Because the United States, while still the world’s number – one economic power, is showing itself to be an unreliable steward of its own currency.
Regards,
Addison Wiggins
The DailyRekoning dot com
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MSM’s Ad Nauseam. That’s the way it was it was it was it was itwasiwsi …
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“The Media Builds
a Monument to Itself
The Newseum reeducates the public.
by Andrew Ferguson
If Walter Cronkite’s mom was going to put together a scrapbook of her son’s career–well, it would be a miracle, because she’d be about 125 years old by now. But if she did, I doubt that it would contain more admiring images of the former CBS newsreader than you’ll find in the Newseum, the new journalism museum that held its boffo grand opening this month in Washington, D.C. Cronkite is everywhere in the Newseum. He hovers over it like a guardian angel, or a patron saint. You can’t turn around without hearing his phlegmy baritone rumbling out from a hidden speaker or see some grainy footage of him announcing President Kennedy’s death or wiping his eyes at the moon landing or definitively pronouncing the Vietnam war a “stalemate.”
And that’s the way it is–at the Newseum, anyway. But why?” http://tinyurl.com/58b38d (weeklystandard)
Careful; You picked a winning investment and you expect to see a profit. How can you possibly lose?
Be sure the pay-out dollars are not US currency.
Don’t let his age fool you – Templeton was still sharp in 1999 when the financial industry hacks in Florida were urging their customers to buy more tech stocks. Templeton warned that the bubble would soon burst. He was right; they were wrong. Of course, he was only 87 back then. He is almost certainly right again. Other great investors, too, are getting out of the dollar. For the first time in his life, Warren Buffett is investing in foreign currencies.
George Soros, who made a fortune selling sterling in the 1992 ERM crisis, warns that the U.S. system could ** blow up ** at any time. Richard Russell, the influential editor of the Dow Theory letters, speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, warned: **If ever there was a crisis that could shake the global economy – this is it.**
Jim Rogers is teaching his daughter to speak Chinese. When old – timers nod their heads in agreement – especially when they happen to be the most successful investors in the world – their advice may be worth listening to.
BendGovernment.blogspot.com
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I tried to post the full story here but it got caught in the filter twice . . . so just go to BendGovernment. = TG
National NewsWatch is reporting that Brenda Martin is Free & on her way back to Canada.
Film at 11, Because that is all you are going to see for the next month.
Credit for the US currency heads-up goes to. ..
Addison Wiggins
The DailyRekoning dot com
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Correction:
I should have said she has been released from a Mexican Prison and is being transported back to Canada, Not that she is free as Only Herself & Corrections Canada would know her fate once she arrives here.
Also it is now being reported on ctv about the release & LaFlamme is reporting that it has been confirmed by an Opposition Liberal, But not by the Government or Corrections Canada due to Privacy Concurns in such cases.
RE: Dead ducks in Syncrude tailings pond
The G&M/Canadian Press reports:
“Three of five birds taken from the sludge were flown to a veterinary rescue centre in Edmonton, but at least one of them has since died.”
I have already sent an email to my MLA asking if any taxpayer money has been used to airlift ducks to Edmonton…idiocy, sheer idiocy.
Does Cardinal Pell in Australia read SDA? http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58149
Cardinal Pell leery of adopting Australian charter of rights
Sydney, Apr. 30, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has argued against the adoption of a bill of rights for Australia, saying that he fears the eruption of “culture wars” that would be settled by arbitrary court decisions rather than the normal democratic process.
In an address to the Brisbane Institute, the cardinal pointed to the controversial judicial decisions that have given rise to fierce political divisions in the United States and Canada. “We don’t have a culture war here in Australia in the way the United States does, but a bill or charter of rights could help provoke one,” he said, according to a report in Western Australia.
Court rulings on human-rights issues have frequently thwarted the popular will, Cardinal Pell observed. “Rights are best protected by the common law and by parliament when the people are equally aware of their responsibilities,” he argued.
Seal meat should be used in food aid program: MP
The Western Star
CORNER BROOK — With the world plunging deeper into an international food crisis, Canada is soon expected to make a major announcement of its involvement in the world food aid program.
Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte Liberal MP Gerry Byrne is asking that the enhanced Canadian contribution include a very significant seal meat component to the assistance package.
“The world is facing a shortage of food”, Byrne said. “Canada’s eastern and northern coastlines are currently producing thousands of tonnes of edible protein through a fully sustainable and environmentally responsible hunt. We have the potential to add significantly more to that effort should the need arise. Canadian world food programs have often been augmented by fish and occasionally by seal products. The Government of Canada’s announcement, expected this week, should specifically reference Canada’s intent to include seal as part of the Canadian contribution.”
Market speculation, droughts, increasing demand from emerging economies, rising oil prices and increased use of biofuel production have significantly impacted world food markets. Byrne believes that including seal products in Canada’s world food program could refocus the debate back on the necessity of the world responding responsibly to acquiring food that is sustainably harvested, properly regulated and readily available.
“The research and development of most of these products has already been done. What we need now is to fully develop them. Making such a statement might get this non-sensical debate about the seal hunt back to the truth and about what it can offer to a starving planet.”
Independence of the government watchdogs: http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/politics/politics_thu.wmv
Go into the video to just past the 26:30 minute mark, where Don Newman brings on the CBC’s Allison Crawford.
Crawford’s explanation makes the Auditor general’s concerns about her independence from the PCO very clear.
And very different from the spin of the Opposition.
Fraser wanted clarification of Treasury Board unwritten policies/understandings that have been in place for at least the last 20-some years.
Her office was audited recently for some spending, and was embarrassed by having some expenses published in the media.
She felt she was not outside the unwritten, but understood, guidelines for expenses being approved, and wanted them put in writing, so that there was no questionning.
Note that she never felt the Conservative government was demanding to vett communications.
Nor did she think it was ever going to happen under this government.
She had an awkward way of tossing it out there in committee, one might say now.
Fox classes AGW as junk science.
Say goodnight AGW. Goodnight AGW.
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“Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race
Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam?
A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming. Researchers belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported in Nature (May 1) that after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, “global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations … temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.”
You got that? IPCC researchers project no global warming over the next decade because of Mother Nature. Although the result seems stunning in that it came from IPCC scientists who have always been in the tank for manmade global warming, it’s not really surprising since the notion of manmade climate change has never lived up to its billing.
When NASA’s James Hansen sounded the alarm in Congress 20 years ago, he predicted that rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, or CO2, would drive global temperatures higher by 0.34 degrees Celsius during the 1990s. But surface temperatures increased during that decade by only 0.11 degrees Celsius and lower atmosphere temperatures actually decreased.” http://tinyurl.com/6hur4s (fox)
The Top 100 SDA Commenters list (by frequency and volume) for the first four months of 2008, based on the 807 articles, 2,716 commenters, and 40,407 comments so far this year (GMT), is now available here:
sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/04/sda-commenter-statistics.html
That’s the stuff Kate, some body’s gotta work, we can’t all be farmers!
Thank you Vitruvius. I will now attempt to get a freakin’ life. Geeze.
Canada reaches out to Taliban
After years of refusing to negotiate with insurgents, soldiers in Kandahar put word out they want to talk
KHENJAKAK, AFGHANISTAN — Canadian troops are reaching out to the Taliban for the first time, military and diplomatic officials say
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080501.wAfghan01/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
Finally some common sense.
This is classic guerrilla war. The USA didn’t talk to the vietcong yet eventually they did. The french refused to talk to the algerian FLN, eventually they did.
It is mostly an ego thing. Military people want to show they are macho by not talking to the ennemy. How sad.
Unlawfully Confined By Islamofascists For Photographing NY Mosque
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/05/man-unlawfully-confined-by.html
AQS: It would be best if you commented using verifiable facts, rather than your own imagined prejudices.
It is mostly an ego thing. Military people want to show they are macho by not talking to the ennemy. How sad.
I’m sure some Jewish people tried to talk to the Nazis during WWII, just before they were taken to the gas chambers…
I’m sure some of the people on 9/11 tried to talk to the terrorists just before their airplanes were driven into buildings…
Talking to the enemy is over rated.
Well, Well, Well – seems the science isn’t exactly settled after all – guess the snow and cold temperatures have caused the “Global Warmers” to predict now that
“Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor”
Editorhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/30/eaclimate130.xml
Until 2015 because of “naturally occurring climate lulls”.
Guess that is when they predict the next warm weather is going to happen.
Ya gotta laugh.
More AGW-like blather/nuance from the economic voodoosayers. FPCanada throws in the towel — “at least so far”.
Mild skirts are in fashion with the pessomists.
Expert says, “”While most of the discussion has focused on the U.S., which most agree is in at least a mild recession,”
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“Canada edges closer to recession as growth slows
OTTAWA — Canada has edged closer to a recession, while the United States appears to have skirted one — at least so far.”
The key words from the report “Italian Social Movement” contain the code word “Social” which shows that fascism is socialism. Call it the Italian Socialist Movement. It’s a mirror image of German National Socialism.
In Rome, “Gianni Alemanno, a member of Alleanza Nazionale, was elected Mayor of Rome”. Alemanno means German.
Socialism = fascism = nazism.
Watch for anti-semitism to follow.
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“Mussolini follower Gianfranco Fini takes top job”
http://tinyurl.com/6bwkkn (times)
Guess the recession is here for the TORedStar group. G-Mail Media reports with satisfaction?
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EBITDA: growth
The Torstar picture
Metroland Media -14.7%
StarMedia group -61.6%
Book publishing -14.3%
Other (TTN) -43.9%
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http://tinyurl.com/5yw8q8 (G-M)
A Quebec superior court judge has ordered the destruction of the ballots from the 1995 referendum. Too bad and I hope this gets appealed. Those ballots need to be examined to determine just how fraudulent the “yes” side vote counters were in certain parts of the province. The margin of victory for the “No” was “officially” stated as 50.6% but there is speculation that thousands of “NO” ballots were fraudulently rejected the number which could have made the official margin more like 54%. Just imagine had they rejected a few more thousand ballots that we would now have a banana republic in North America with a situation not much different than what Robert Mugabe is doing in Africa.
Got my final message from the CBSC/CTV about Bob Fife/”knuckle draggers”.
”
Dear Mr. ——:
I have received your complaint of April 4th to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) who in turn has forwarded it to CTV News for a response.
First, I want to thank you for choosing CTV News as your source for news coverage and for taking the time to share your concerns about our National Newscast. We at CTV News take all concerns very seriously.
Your e-mail expressed concern over an item you watched on our newscast on April 3rd which involved a discussion with our Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife.
You expressed concern that Mr. Fife referred to some members of the Conservative caucus, as “knuckle draggers”.
There’s a fine line between political analysis and political commentary. It’s critical to look at Mr. Fife’s comments in the larger context of his overall reporting of the story that evening. The introduction to and the actual report presented before the discussion were delivered in a fair and balanced manner outlining the story of the newly found “party tapes” and the issues facing the Harper government.
The discussion that followed the report was intended to provide viewers with analysis, which helps them understand a particular story. We view analysis as a journalistic obligation. For this story, Mr. Fife drew attention to the potential political perils that the contents of the tape might cause the minority Conservative government. It has been widely reported and widely accepted that the federal Conservative caucus and the Conservative Party of Canada has members who hold a wide range of divergent views on the contemporary issues surrounding the tapes. Mr. Fife highlighted the difficult task facing the Prime Minister of maintaining caucus solidarity against these widely divergent views. The colourful language Mr. Fife used was far from his own opinion, but rather, based on sources within the Conservative Party itself.
The use of simple and colourful language can help make a difficult political story much more understandable for a general television news audience. There is a risk that some may be offended by such language, especially those who may be active political partisans. But to muzzle such freedom of expression would be a disservice to our viewers.
While we regret that you were offended by this report and that was certainly not our intent, we believe that this segment was in accordance with all applicable industry codes, guidelines and legislation.
While you suggest that our report was biased, you should be aware, that CTV also receives complaints from Liberal and NDP supporters who also complain that our news coverage is biased against their parties. Politics is a very sensitive and complex issue and it is very difficult to satisfy all viewers all the time. However we can assure you that the report was never intended to be biased against or disparaging of the Conservative party or its supporters.
I hope this explanation goes some way in addressing your concerns and once again I thank you for choosing CTV News as your source for News.
CTV is a member in good standing of the CBSC and adheres to its guidelines.
Sincerely,
via e-mail
Wendy Freeman
Vice President
CTV National News
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Based on sources within the Conservative Party itself? Why didn’t he reveal that “so-and-so from the CPC says there are lots of knuckle-draggers in the party”? Balanced, my hindquarters.
A couple years ago on CFCF 12 Montreal, they showed a whole table covered with some of the rejected ballots,
They even did some close up, and guess what?
They were perfectly good ballots.
That is why some people want them destroyed.
The use of simple and colourful language can help make a difficult political story much more understandable for a general television news audience.
—Wendy Freeman Vice President, CTV
Then saying homosexuals carry diseases under their fingernails is also a simple and colourful way of making people understand that AIDs and other diseases are spread mostly by homosexuals,
right Wendy?
Fife did not say “sources within the Conservative Party say…….bla bla bla.” What he said is “WE ALL KNOW that there are some knuckle-draggers within the Conservative Caucus” First of all just who the hell is he talking about when he says “WE”? Second – names please? This explanation by Wendy Freeman is a crock of horse crap and CTV should not be let off the hook on this.
For Yom HaShoah:
A.B. Yehoshua, An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism
Does Jew-hatred stem from a single root? Dare one raise such a question regarding a phenomenon-called antisemitism since the end of the nineteenth century-that has persisted for so long in so many forms and with so many explanations? A hatred that dates back to antiquity and has remained fixed for thousands of years in a world that is constantly changing; a hatred and hostility toward Jews that is embedded in different nations and cultures and shared by members of different religious faiths, even those at war with one another, such as Christianity and Islam; the hatred of Jews that persists not only in totalitarian and absolutely secular societies, but in liberal democracies as well?
Leon R. Kass, Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul
Scientific ideas and discoveries about nature and man, perfectly welcome and harmless in themselves, are being enlisted to do battle against our traditional religious and moral teachings and even our self-understanding as creatures with freedom and dignity. A quasi-religious faith has sprung up among us-let me call it “soulless scientism”-which believes that our new biology, eliminating all mystery, can provide a complete account of human life, giving purely scientific explanations for human thought, love, creativity, moral judgment, and even why we believe in God. The threat to our humanity today comes not from the transmigration of souls in the next life but from the denial of soul in this one; not from turning men into buffaloes but from denying that there is any real difference between them.
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this has gotta be this year’s big “barney fife” moment…
“honest, sarge… i was reachin’ for my glock…”
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“Rome’s new mayor promises purge of migrants”
http://tinyurl.com/5328dh (telegraph)
The fascist-socialist Mayor is singling out immigrants, The Other, for stigmatizing. Will the Jews be next? Will the axiom hold? The axiom is: Scratch a socialist-fascist, find an anti-semite.
The report also includes a pic:
“Mayor Gianni Alemanno waves an Italian flag from Rome city hall”
It’s not difficult to change the Italian flag to the fasces pictured here:
http://tinyurl.com/683bb9
Efraim Karsh, 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—The True Story
Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are obsessively condemned by the international community; and whose right to exist is constantly debated and challenged not only by its Arab enemies but by segments of advanced opinion in the West.
During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of the Jewish state has become a cause célèbre among many of these educated Westerners…
(PDF warning; 8 pages) Dr. Ondrej Beranek, The Sword and the Book: Implications of the Intertwining of the Saudi Ruling Family and the Religious Establishment
Was the left right about Bush being a moron? From the Jerusalem Post (much earlier named the Palestinian Post).
The myth of Palestinian moderation
“Even for a president prone to misusing the English language, George W. Bush outdid himself last week.
“Sitting next to Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, Bush gushed and swooned over the visiting Palestinian leader, describing him in terms usually reserved for heroes and saints.
“The president is a man of peace,” Bush assured the gaggle of reporters who were present. “He’s a man of vision. He rejects the idea of using violence to achieve objectives, which distinguishes him from other people in the region.”
“While Bush’s grammar may have been uncommonly accurate that day, his description of Abbas was anything but. For even a cursory glance at some of the Palestinian president’s outbursts in recent months reveal a man wholly undeserving of such praise.
Coming to the capital of New Brunswick? Bring a boat.
Check out the new Canadian Olympic Uniforms over at CBC. God, the’re worse than those others with the red berets and all. These make all the men look like Flamers and the women Butches.
Oh, and see how environmentally correct they are!
Rights complaint an outrage
YELLOWKNIFER, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9
From: Inemesit Graham,
Yellowknife
I really hope the NWT Human Rights Tribunal doesn’t vote in favour of Roger Deranger (Article: “Dene man claims bar discriminated
against him,” April 25).
He’s claiming that refusal into the Raven pub three out of 50-100 times where he was allowed entry was racist. If the Human Rights Tribunal votes in his favour that would be the true racism. If a Caucasian male had made this complaint I’m pretty sure it would have been dismissed right away. Why is it that if the bar staff accessed him as intoxicated and refused him entry automatically it’s a racial thing?
If they were truly racist would they not have disallowed him entry on all those other occasions?
Also, the fact that he’s asking for $50,000 in compensation outrages me. I make that in a year and he believes he’s owed it just because he couldn’t go dancing one night? Please! I will be going to the Human Rights Commission if he gets a penny of that!
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“ulianov chortles… 2500 Taliban Jacks”
hey, gomer… negotiate this…
“As for brilliant new tactics, what’s really left… besides rounding up another lot
of mentally handicapped villagers… duct taping semtex to their battered,
undernourished bodies and sending them out into public venues?”
yeah… it’s a scream.
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National Post editorial today
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Why? Whether or not Elections Canada means to leave the appearance of bias against the Tories, it has. Its actions look like those of an agency with a vendetta against the Tories and their leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
http://tinyurl.com/4y94dh
about friggin’ time the Arsea Empee layed charges. next stop Caledonia.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/05/01/freezing-deaths.html
Socialism’s social justice and equality;
the levelling of socialism. How was this public disclosure of private information justified?
The answer: Cosi fan tutte, aka everybody does it. “This already exists all around the world, you just have to watch any American soap to see that.”
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“Italy posts income details on web
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376608.stm
Any accountants out there ? Is the Ontario’s Teachers Pension Fund a Ponzi Scheme ?
Total assests $106 Billion and 271,000 members gives $390,000 each to yield, what, $40grand a year for retirees ?
And, [The reality for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is that it has a relatively low worker-to-retiree ratio with only 1.6 working teachers for every former teacher drawing a pension.
[..]
The situation is not getting better. Last year, 5,600 teachers took retirement and by 2017 an additional 46,000 retirees will be collecting their pensions.] Ottawa Citizen
And by 2017 and additional 46000 will retire, leaving less than one working teacher for every retiree. (Assuming falling birth rates do not require many new teachers in the future.)
Is this all viable ? Why do I care ? Because, maybe the taxpayer be called upon to bail the Ponzi out ? Also, remember, this is a group that is exposing our children to the Global Warming Scam – now delayed by at least 10 years.
http://www.otppb.com/web/website.nsf/web/canwest_teachersearningcurve
Also, from hotair.com
‘Germany uses Ponzi schemes to support older Ponzi schemes’
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/01/germany-uses-ponzi-schemes-to-support-older-ponzi-schemes/
Leftist asshats/terrorist sympathisers..please note..the only ‘talking’ that will take place is to seperate the wheat from the chaff.
The convo’s will be short and sweet, and somewhat along the lines of ‘Support us, and your lives will be better, support the Taliban and all bets are off.Make arrangements.’
I’d like to rub your nose in a pile of twisted metal and seared flesh, where an innocent Afghani child once stood..your preaching, and siding with the enemy is most unwelcome.
Charles MacDonald: Thanks for the Efraim Karsh link above. I’ve read 2-3 of his books. He’s superb.
For your own edification may I recommend a slim volume, part of the Essential Histories series (Opsrey Publishing): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948. Complete with excellent maps and photogs. Approx. 90 pages. Which reminds me, now that I’ve taken it down from the shelf, I didn’t finish it.
Melanie Phillips, Happy 60th birthday, Israel: well done for surviving
What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that six decades thence Israel would be encircled by its enemies, hopelessly outnumbered and fighting for its existence? He would surely have said: so what’s new?
Next week, on 8 May, Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of that declaration. With every decade that it clocks up, people ask the same question: will Israel still be there for the next one? It is indeed astonishing that it has not only survived but is flourishing…
Efraim Karsh, The Diplomatic Dance with Hamas
While the hope that Hamas could somehow be lured away from its genocidal agenda seems to be gaining wider currency, not only is the destruction of Israel not a bargaining chip, it is the heart of the matter. Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, sees the struggle for Palestine as neither an ordinary political dispute between two contending nations (Israelis and Palestinians), nor even as a struggle for national self-determination by an indigenous population against a foreign occupier. Rather, it sees Palestine as but one battle in a worldwide holy war to prevent the fall of a part of the House of Islam to infidels.
Worse than CO2 – guess what?
http://www.jyi.org/news/nb.php?id=1469
Thanks, MND. You’ll enjoy Karsh’s smackdown on Hamas as well.
Grits are Liberals.; aka the Party of Ad$cammers Chretien, Martin,Jr., and Citoyen Dion.
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“Tories raise 5 times as much money as Liberals
OTTAWA – Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have raked in five times as much money from four times as many donors as the Liberal party during the first three months of this year.
Financial returns filed with Elections Canada show that the Tories raised $4.95 million from 44,345 contributors. At the same time, the Liberal party raised only $846,129 from 10,169 contributors.
The dismal results suggest the Liberals, traditionally the party most reliant on corporate largesse, have still not adapted to the prohibition on corporate donations imposed in 2004.
Once Canada’s most efficient political money-raising machine, the Liberals actually brought in less than the New Democratic Party during the first quarter of 2008; the NDP raised $1.1 million from 13,329 donors.” (canpress)
Donations are a clear sign of support to be sure. The true scandal was Cretin’s move to give political parties cash from the nation’s coffers.
Now at $1.75 per vote, these useless partisans have now wrapped their lips around your wallet – whether you want them there or not.
Supporting a political party of your choice shoudl be exactly that. Your choice. The parasitic Libranos got their laughs in, and continue to.
Suckers.
Avoid US dollar value shares?
Stick to Canada, Netherlands, German, India and more reliable currency values?
Addison Wiggins thinks so, because . . .
** Today, there are simply too many dollars in circulation for the currency’s own good. Why? Americans have been living beyond their means for more than two decades. The U.S. dollar’s problems stem from a single cause. **If there’s a bubble,** wrote David Rosenberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, ** it’s in this four–letter word: debt. The U.S. economy is just awash in it. **
You’ve seen it firsthand: John Q. Public now holds more credit cards and outstanding loans – with a higher and higher total debt load – than ever before. Outstanding consumer credit, including mortgage and other debt, reached $ 9.3 trillion in April 2003 – a significant increase from its $ 7 trillion total in January 2000 – but by the third quarter of 2007, debt had nearly doubled since 2000, to $ 13.7 trillion. With consumer spending alone responsible for approximately 70 percent of U.S. GDP, that’s quite a hefty personal debt load.
The corporate debt picture is no better. American companies have never depended so much on sales of their corporate bonds. Between 2002–2007, investment – grade corporate bond sales increased nearly 60 percent, growing from $598 billion to $951 billion. But junk bond sales for that same period broke the bank, surging from $57 billion to $133 billion.
The third leg of the debt problem, following consumer and business debt, is Uncle Sam. Government debt as of November 7, 2007, officially passed $ 9,000,000,000,000. That’s about $ 30,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country. This total includes debt owned by many types of investors, from individuals to corporations to Federal Reserve banks and especially to foreign interests. (By 2004, foreign central banks had stockpiled more than $ 1.3 trillion worth of dollar – denominated Treasury bonds and agency bonds at the Federal Reserve. By 2007, foreign debt had nearly doubled, to $ 2.033 trillion.)
What the $ 7.8 trillion figure does not account for are items like the gap between the government’s Social Security and Medicare commitments and the money put aside to pay for them. If these items are factored in, the government debt burden for every American rises to well over $ 175,000. In 2005, the Methuselah of investment mavens, Sir John Templeton, then 93, said you should get out of U.S. stocks, the U.S. dollar, and excess residential real estate. Templeton believed the dollar would fall 40 percent against other major currencies, and that this would lead the nation’s major creditors – notably Japan and China – to dump their U.S. bonds, which would cause interest rates to run up, thus beginning a long period of stagflation. He was right.
Don’t let his age fool you – Templeton was still sharp in 1999 when the financial industry hacks in Florida were urging their customers to buy more tech stocks. Templeton warned that the bubble would soon burst. He was right; they were wrong. Of course, he was only 87 back then. He is almost certainly right again. Other great investors, too, are getting out of the dollar. For the first time in his life, Warren Buffett is investing in foreign currencies.
George Soros, who made a fortune selling sterling in the 1992 ERM crisis, warns that the U.S. system could * blow up * at any time. Richard Russell, the influential editor of the Dow Theory letters, speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, warned: *If ever there was a crisis that could shake the global economy – this is it.* Jim Rogers is teaching his daughter to speak Chinese. When old – timers nod their heads in agreement – especially when they happen to be the most successful investors in the world – their advice may be worth listening to.
American consumers, companies, the U.S. government, and the country as a whole owe more dollars to more people than ever before. But perhaps the greatest threat to the U.S. economy is its foreign creditors. There is – or should be – a limit to the number of dollars foreigners are willing to buy and hold and thus a limit to their willingness to service our credit habit. Why? Because the United States, while still the world’s number – one economic power, is showing itself to be an unreliable steward of its own currency.
Regards,
Addison Wiggins
The DailyRekoning dot com
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MSM’s Ad Nauseam. That’s the way it was it was it was it was itwasiwsi …
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“The Media Builds
a Monument to Itself
The Newseum reeducates the public.
by Andrew Ferguson
If Walter Cronkite’s mom was going to put together a scrapbook of her son’s career–well, it would be a miracle, because she’d be about 125 years old by now. But if she did, I doubt that it would contain more admiring images of the former CBS newsreader than you’ll find in the Newseum, the new journalism museum that held its boffo grand opening this month in Washington, D.C. Cronkite is everywhere in the Newseum. He hovers over it like a guardian angel, or a patron saint. You can’t turn around without hearing his phlegmy baritone rumbling out from a hidden speaker or see some grainy footage of him announcing President Kennedy’s death or wiping his eyes at the moon landing or definitively pronouncing the Vietnam war a “stalemate.”
And that’s the way it is–at the Newseum, anyway. But why?”
http://tinyurl.com/58b38d (weeklystandard)
Careful; You picked a winning investment and you expect to see a profit. How can you possibly lose?
Be sure the pay-out dollars are not US currency.
Don’t let his age fool you – Templeton was still sharp in 1999 when the financial industry hacks in Florida were urging their customers to buy more tech stocks. Templeton warned that the bubble would soon burst. He was right; they were wrong. Of course, he was only 87 back then. He is almost certainly right again. Other great investors, too, are getting out of the dollar. For the first time in his life, Warren Buffett is investing in foreign currencies.
George Soros, who made a fortune selling sterling in the 1992 ERM crisis, warns that the U.S. system could ** blow up ** at any time. Richard Russell, the influential editor of the Dow Theory letters, speaking at the New Orleans Investment Conference, warned: **If ever there was a crisis that could shake the global economy – this is it.**
Jim Rogers is teaching his daughter to speak Chinese. When old – timers nod their heads in agreement – especially when they happen to be the most successful investors in the world – their advice may be worth listening to.
BendGovernment.blogspot.com
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I tried to post the full story here but it got caught in the filter twice . . . so just go to BendGovernment. = TG
National NewsWatch is reporting that Brenda Martin is Free & on her way back to Canada.
Film at 11, Because that is all you are going to see for the next month.
Credit for the US currency heads-up goes to. ..
Addison Wiggins
The DailyRekoning dot com
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Correction:
I should have said she has been released from a Mexican Prison and is being transported back to Canada, Not that she is free as Only Herself & Corrections Canada would know her fate once she arrives here.
Also it is now being reported on ctv about the release & LaFlamme is reporting that it has been confirmed by an Opposition Liberal, But not by the Government or Corrections Canada due to Privacy Concurns in such cases.
RE: Dead ducks in Syncrude tailings pond
The G&M/Canadian Press reports:
“Three of five birds taken from the sludge were flown to a veterinary rescue centre in Edmonton, but at least one of them has since died.”
I have already sent an email to my MLA asking if any taxpayer money has been used to airlift ducks to Edmonton…idiocy, sheer idiocy.
Does Cardinal Pell in Australia read SDA?
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58149
Cardinal Pell leery of adopting Australian charter of rights
Sydney, Apr. 30, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has argued against the adoption of a bill of rights for Australia, saying that he fears the eruption of “culture wars” that would be settled by arbitrary court decisions rather than the normal democratic process.
In an address to the Brisbane Institute, the cardinal pointed to the controversial judicial decisions that have given rise to fierce political divisions in the United States and Canada. “We don’t have a culture war here in Australia in the way the United States does, but a bill or charter of rights could help provoke one,” he said, according to a report in Western Australia.
Court rulings on human-rights issues have frequently thwarted the popular will, Cardinal Pell observed. “Rights are best protected by the common law and by parliament when the people are equally aware of their responsibilities,” he argued.
Seal meat should be used in food aid program: MP
The Western Star
CORNER BROOK — With the world plunging deeper into an international food crisis, Canada is soon expected to make a major announcement of its involvement in the world food aid program.
Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte Liberal MP Gerry Byrne is asking that the enhanced Canadian contribution include a very significant seal meat component to the assistance package.
“The world is facing a shortage of food”, Byrne said. “Canada’s eastern and northern coastlines are currently producing thousands of tonnes of edible protein through a fully sustainable and environmentally responsible hunt. We have the potential to add significantly more to that effort should the need arise. Canadian world food programs have often been augmented by fish and occasionally by seal products. The Government of Canada’s announcement, expected this week, should specifically reference Canada’s intent to include seal as part of the Canadian contribution.”
Market speculation, droughts, increasing demand from emerging economies, rising oil prices and increased use of biofuel production have significantly impacted world food markets. Byrne believes that including seal products in Canada’s world food program could refocus the debate back on the necessity of the world responding responsibly to acquiring food that is sustainably harvested, properly regulated and readily available.
“The research and development of most of these products has already been done. What we need now is to fully develop them. Making such a statement might get this non-sensical debate about the seal hunt back to the truth and about what it can offer to a starving planet.”
Independence of the government watchdogs:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/politics/politics_thu.wmv
Go into the video to just past the 26:30 minute mark, where Don Newman brings on the CBC’s Allison Crawford.
Crawford’s explanation makes the Auditor general’s concerns about her independence from the PCO very clear.
And very different from the spin of the Opposition.
Fraser wanted clarification of Treasury Board unwritten policies/understandings that have been in place for at least the last 20-some years.
Her office was audited recently for some spending, and was embarrassed by having some expenses published in the media.
She felt she was not outside the unwritten, but understood, guidelines for expenses being approved, and wanted them put in writing, so that there was no questionning.
Note that she never felt the Conservative government was demanding to vett communications.
Nor did she think it was ever going to happen under this government.
She had an awkward way of tossing it out there in committee, one might say now.
Fox classes AGW as junk science.
Say goodnight AGW. Goodnight AGW.
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“Junk Science: The Great Global Warming Race
Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam?
A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming. Researchers belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported in Nature (May 1) that after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, “global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations … temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.”
You got that? IPCC researchers project no global warming over the next decade because of Mother Nature. Although the result seems stunning in that it came from IPCC scientists who have always been in the tank for manmade global warming, it’s not really surprising since the notion of manmade climate change has never lived up to its billing.
When NASA’s James Hansen sounded the alarm in Congress 20 years ago, he predicted that rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, or CO2, would drive global temperatures higher by 0.34 degrees Celsius during the 1990s. But surface temperatures increased during that decade by only 0.11 degrees Celsius and lower atmosphere temperatures actually decreased.”
http://tinyurl.com/6hur4s (fox)