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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight we present the music of a true Canadian original, Salmon Arm B.C.’s unheralded Herald Nix. I was somewhat surprised to find a video because although Nix is a terrific live performer (for music, not banter) he’s also a notably modest, low-key, and rather austere fellow who by nature eschews the business and promotional side of things. Here it is, though, a video of a song of his from the 1995 release Open Up The Sky called Am I Beautiful.
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  5. The Toronto Star reports that the Canadian diplomat in Kenya who rejected Suaad Hagi Mohamud’s passport picture is a woman whose surname is Khadour. Not Smith, Jones, Williams, etc., so I guess all those claims of “racism” might have to be reconsidered …

  8. Here’s Nate Laurie, economist and former Star columnist, writing in that paper the usual guff about Ontario’s “broken” welfare system and the horde of unemployed who don’t qualify for EI:
    “Until we get serious about tackling overall poverty in a meaningful way, the welfare system will simply not be fixed.”
    “We” have been “tackling poverty” since the 1960s by “redistributing wealth” and the results are more, not less, poverty. The real issue is that taxes interfere with the production and trade of goods and services, thereby making everybody poorer. The one thing we really need to forget about is “inequality”. Equality in a political context means we have the same rights of free speech, etc. It doesn’t mean we all have to have the same income. Attempts to bring about that state of affairs invariably mean a handful at the top, the ones who make the decisions and push everybody around, are much more equal than others.
    Given that we’re still in a recession, maybe the qualifications for EI could be reduced somewhat, on a temporary basis, to aid the innocent victims of economic upheaval. However, the Star has been flogging this same issue since at least 2007, at which time the economy apparently was humming along nicely and unemployment in Canada was at a 30-year low. So it’s obvious what the Star wants is not the alleviation of poverty but large numbers of Canadians “benefiting” from our social programs. It also, back then, started pushing for a $10 minimum wage in Ontario, knowing full well that this would cost jobs. But what’s a few thousand more unemployed when we have social programs that “define Canada”?

  9. Goreacle Report: We-Told-You-Department.
    …-
    “UK Arrests in Carbon Credit Trading Scam – organized crime said to be involved
    From the UK Telegraph:
    Seven arrests in suspected £38m carbon credit fraud
    Seven people have been arrested and 27 residence and office locations were raided by police over a suspected £38 million pounds (62.8 million dollars) fraud involving the trade of carbon credits to avoid paying the value-added tax (VAT) which is required in the UK.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  10. “Obama makes moral case for health reform AFP”*
    AGW and Socialism and O: Frauds.
    The natural end result of the religions of Gaia/AGW and O’s socialism: Fraud.
    AGW + socialism = Zero, aka nihilism*, aka O’Oracle, moral fraud*/poseur.
    …-
    “Zimbabwe Dollar notes for sale on eBay
    It’s a real strange World! Zimbabwe’s 100 billion Dollar bank note which is not even enough to buy you a loaf of bread in Harare is being sold for as much as £70 on auction site eBay.
    Who would buy these valueless Zimbabwean bank notes?
    Apparently Zimbabwe’s new bank notes seem to be sought after by collectors, especially the 100 billion note. Zimbabwe’s billion dollar bank notes have more value as novelty items on eBay than what you can get in Zimbabwe.
    If you can sale them, it’s more profitable to sale these notes on eBay than go to work in Zimbabwe. God help us!
    Meanwhile the reserve bank of Zimbabwe governor, Mr Gideon Gono announced new monetary policy measures in an effort to bring sanity to the chaos in the business sector, these include removing 10 zeros from the country’s currency and also introducing new bank notes.
    These is meant to help the country’s business sector, whose computer systems could not cope with billion and trillion figures.”
    http://www.zimbio.com/Zimbabwe+Issues/articles/157/Zimbabwe+Dollar+notes+sale+eBay
    *Nihilism: Enter – The O’Oracle*.
    >>> “What characterizes them, besides their egotism and narcissism, is their false idealism and moral posturing.”
    “The Oracle
    by J. R. Nyquist
    At least two writers in the 19th century foresaw the advent of totalitarianism.
    The first was Dostoevsky and the second was Nietzsche.
    Both writers grasped the intellectual trend of their day. As education advanced, as the human spirit was given new opportunities for understanding, the result was intellectual radicalism. In the 18th century Edmund Burke warned his contemporaries that education without religion or aristocratic principles would turn against mankind.
    Burke wrote: “Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.” Burke added, “In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but gallows.”
    Overwhelmed with a similar insight, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche updated Burke’s lament.
    In Dostoevsky’s novel, The Possessed, a radical young intellectual advocated a world in which Cicero would have his tongue cut out, Copernicus would have his eyes put out, and Shakespeare would be stoned to death – in the name of universal equality.
    Dostoevsky predicted that the radical mentality – emerging in the 19th century – would kill 100 million peoplein the 20th century.
    Those without vision, without a sense of where the world was headed, disbelieved Dostoevsky’s prophecy. Such a calamity could never happen, because the world is not a madhouse.
    Enter Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Enter, as well, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, and today’s politically correct mob. What characterizes them, besides their egotism and narcissism, is their false idealism and moral posturing.”
    http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2008/0829.html

  11. “Blood and Gore”:
    The Goreacle Report, courtesy Chairman, “The Honorable Al Gore, Chairman”.
    Would you buy a used carbon credit, aka indulgence, from “Blood and Gore”?
    …-
    “People and culture are critical to our long-term success at Generation.”
    —David Blood, Senior Partner and Co-Founder”
    “Team
    The Generation team of 36 people represents 16 countries and speaks 10 languages. Our investment team was founded by bringing together seasoned equity analysts and leaders from the sustainability research field. Today these skills are integrated into Generation’s team of 16 investment professionals who have over 150 years of combined investment experience.
    Full biographies of our team are available below:
    Partners
    * The Honorable Al Gore, Chairman
    * David Blood, Senior Partner” (more)
    http://www.generationim.com/about/team.html

  12. Grey/Bruce suddenly headline catchers
    Tory MP breaks ranks on HST
    Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound’s Larry Miller with Flaherty over merits of Ontario’s controversial move
    Globe & Mail/The Canadian Press
    Cracks appear to beforming in Prime Minister Stephen Harpers causca……
    Many constituents have concerns…..
    **I live in Owen Sound & yes many are concurned, we also have a conservative MPP(Bill Murdoch)who has expressed concurns over this since the Get Go.
    Bill & Larry work closely together when it comes to answering to their constituents.
    So what if Larry say’s what his constituents are saying he works for us here speaks for us & he is repeating what we are saying, He is doing his job!
    “First i want to make this clear that this change was initiated by the province of Ontario and was not a decision made by the federal govt in any way”
    Larry Miller
    So again Miller is doing his job.

  14. BTW: to my prior post
    I wrote that as it appears in the article & now on ctv.ca
    Reporters from Peterborough know absolutly nothing about our area.
    Note the hyphen in the article between Owen – Sound by the reporter.
    Its Bruce-Grey Owen Sound there is No hyphen between Owen Sound.

  16. Ezra Levant: *”I’m finishing up my next book.”
    Hurry, hurry.
    In the USA, a judge “is being asked to collaborate in the suppression of a book, and even of expressions of approval of the book.”
    …-
    “A Pandora’s Box on Speech
    George Will
    WASHINGTON — It began with the proliferation of campus “speech codes” ostensibly designed to promote civility but frequently used to enforce political conformity. The new censorship accelerated with the McCain-Feingold legislation that licenses government regulation of the quantity, timing and content of speech in political campaigns.
    Now the attack on First Amendment speech protections has taken an audacious new turn, illustrated by a case being pondered by a Texas judge. He is being asked to collaborate in the suppression of a book, and even of expressions of approval of the book.
    The book arises from an abuse of the power of eminent domain by the city of Freeport, Texas, but the story really begins in Connecticut. There, in 2000, New London’s city government condemned the property of middle-class homeowners in an unblighted neighborhood for the purpose of getting the property into the hands of commercial interests that would pay more taxes. In 2005, in the Kelo case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 5-4, New London’s rapaciousness as a constitutional taking of property for what the Fifth Amendment calls a “public use.” Rapacious people around the country salivated.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320379/posts
    *http://ezralevant.com/

  17. Excerpt from a Thomas Sowell piece at NRO:
    “Despite incessant repetition of the fact that millions of Americans do not have medical insurance, hardy souls who have actually read the mammoth medical-care legislation being rushed through Congress have discovered all sorts of things there that have nothing whatever to do with insuring the uninsured — and everything to do with taking medical decisions out of the hands of doctors and their patients, and transferring those decisions to Washington bureaucrats.
    “It’s called ‘bait and switch’ when an unscrupulous business advertises one thing and tries to sell you something else. When politicians do it, it is far more dangerous to far more people. Deception is not an incidental aspect of this medical-care legislation. It is at the very heart of it.”
    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDQ3YzQzM2YzZjA1NmFlM2E4YTM2ZTc0ZjFiYzM2YWY=

  18. Trial Lawyers: corrupt as their democratic friends.
    “…Emboldened by a developing-world legal system that heavily favored plaintiffs, they filed an avalanche of lawsuits here against California-based Dole and eventually won $2.1 billion in local judgments.
    Now a California judge has ruled that plaintiffs and their lawyers deployed fraudulent tactics, which included faking sterility tests and using plaintiffs who never worked on banana plantations.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125061508138340501.html

  19. California: Not broke enough
    Calif. State Assembly staffers get raises
    Hikes come in face of big budget deficit
    Against a backdrop of deep fiscal distress, several California lawmakers rewarded their employees with pay increases during the first half of the year, an Associated Press review of legislative pay records shows.
    At least 87 California State Assembly staff members received raises totaling more than $430,000 on an annualized basis, even as the state faced a growing budget deficit that led to furloughs and pay cuts for many other government workers and steep reductions in core services.
    The review of records obtained under the state Legislative Open Records Act found that salary increases went to three employees in the office of Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, the Los Angeles Democrat who leads the 80-member chamber, and three to staff members of the Democratic caucus she oversees.
    http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/18/state-assembly-staffers-get-raises/

  21. Scottish “Justice?” WTF happened to the old country? Did all the sane Scots move to the new world?
    The terminally ill Libyan man convicted in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has been freed by Scotland’s justice minister.
    In spite of protests from the United States, Abdel Basset Al Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, has been released from a Scottish prison and departed for his native country by plane Thursday.
    “Our belief dictates that justice be served but mercy be shown,” said Kenny MacAskill, Scotland’s justice secretary, ordering that the 57-year-old convict “be released on compassionate grounds and be allowed to return to Libya to die.”
    Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for taking part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, and was to serve at least 27 years behind bars.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090820/jewellery_arrests_090820/20090820?hub=TopStories

  22. Treason of the Intellectuals*:
    “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds,”.
    …-
    “Karl Marx Is ‘Back in Vogue,’ NYT Book Reviewer Enthuses
    New York Times book critic Dwight Garner on Wednesday enthused over a new biography of Friedrich Engels, cooing that Marxism is “back in vogue” and adding that the founding communist comes across as a “jovial man of outsize appetites” in Tristram Hunt’s new biography “Marx’s General.”
    Garner opened the review by insisting that decrying capitalism is now hip again: “Thanks to globalism’s discontents and the financial crisis that has spread across the planet, Karl Marx and his analysis of capitalism’s dark, wormy side are back in vogue.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320263/posts
    …-
    * “Writing at a moment when ethnic and nationalistic hatreds were again threatening to tear Europe asunder, Benda’s diagnosis assumed the lineaments of a prophecy—one that continues to have deep resonance today.
    “Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds,” he wrote. “It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity.” There was no need to add that its place in moral history would be as a cautionary tale. In little more than a decade, Benda’s prediction that, because of the “great betrayal” of the intellectuals, humanity was “heading for the greatest and most perfect war ever seen in the world,” would achieve a terrifying corroboration.”
    http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/treason_of_intellectuals.htm

  23. RCMP “desparate” to find persons who shot 3 wild horses near Sundre, AB. They’ve offered a $25,000 reward.
    In 1976, I did my first surveying job in Grizzly country, near Nordegg, AB. We heard a huge crash beside us, and grabbed a rifle. Suddenly, a magnificent wild horse ran onto the seismic line. It looked like something from a movie.
    I found out, later, why these horses are such fine specimens. We had some beers with an old Indian, who made a living catching horses, and selling them to local ranchers. He explained, every year he’d check out the herd, and shoot any weaklings. The horses have few real natural enemies out there. They’re too fast, and too smart for bears, and they have no trouble keeping fed. The only way to keep the herd strong is to cull the weak.
    It’s getting to the point where killing any animal can land you in a world of hurt. What’s happening here? Why do the RCMP refuse to issue an amber alert for a missing boy in BC, but offer a huge reward for someone who commits a non-crime?

  24. Sikhs vs Muslims: Natural Enemies.
    Find the Canada*/kirpan connection in this ongoing series:
    PET’s Multiculturalism: the natural end result; The PET Cemetery.
    …-
    “BBC Race Row As Sikh Listeners Threaten Muslim Radio Presenter Who ‘Denigrated Holy Symbol’
    BBC Asian Network host Adil Ray received threats from Sikhs who accused him of denigrating one of their religious symbols
    The BBC’s Asian Network has become embroiled in a race row after Sikh listeners accused the flagship digital radio station of being insensitive towards their religion.
    The BBC was forced to remove a show from its website after Muslim presenter Adil Ray received threats from Sikhs who said he had denigrated one of their religious symbols.
    Members of the Sikh community complained that Mr Ray had been disparaging about whether they really needed to carry kirpan daggers.
    During the offending August 6 show, Mr Ray was discussing a Punjabi music concert in Canada where police had refused entry to Sikhs wearing kirpans.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320524/posts
    …-
    * Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
    *”Sikh priests to stand trial on molestation accusation
    Three Sikh priests accused of molesting a member of their Winnipeg temple when he was a boy will stand trial on their charges.
    Provincial court Judge Michel Chartier ruled yesterday there is sufficient evidence to try Bakhshish Singh, Dalbag Singh and Kuljit Singh on charges related to the alleged abuse of a temple member for several years during the early 1990s.
    Chartier made the ruling following a one-day preliminary hearing yesterday. The evidence given at the hearing is subject to a publication ban.”
    http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winnipeg/2009/08/20/10524961-sun.html

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