Tonight, a young woman named Joni Craigie gives us an insider’s look at the life and the people of North Ronaldsay, the northernmost of the Orkney Islands.
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Tonight, a young woman named Joni Craigie gives us an insider’s look at the life and the people of North Ronaldsay, the northernmost of the Orkney Islands.
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Physics for Financial Markets
Happy New Year:
“A ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.
“The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red Square on New Year’s Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
“Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her at a safe house.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8284279/Black-Widow-attempted-New-Year-Moscow-attack-but-blew-herself-up-by-mistake.html
The Met office and the BBC- caught cold
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/28/the-met-office-and-the-bbc-caught-cold/
The now world famous meteorlogical office in the old East Britania has it’s priorities right. As the paper pusher’s lingo goes CYA.
It proclaimed that this winter will be cold unless it’s warm.
Saskatoon Star Pheonix, A Career criminal named Greg Hope is awaiting sentencing in Winnipeg for the RAPE of a SIX YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL. Greg Hope is an ABORIGINAL. The judge has adjourned sentencing to look into whether a lighter sentence can be imposed because of his RACE. WTF is going on here? A judgement of a Dangerous Offender might be appropriate. This piece of human garbage needs to be locked up for ever. Why do we as a society care about what happens to a piece of sh t like this. No comment from the ASSEMBLY of FIRST NATIONS.
Billy Joel’s daughter took an overdose of a homeopathic medicine.
Nothing happened.
“‘Nothing would happen because there’s nothing in it,’ said Dr. Lewis Nelson, a toxicologist and NYU Medical Center. ‘There’s nothing in these pills.'”
DJ- This is not a First Nations problem, it’s a justice system problem. There’s a reason for the non responce from the Assembly of First Nations. They’re ashamed and embarassed. He’d probably get his head bashed in if they had their way.
“What do Egyptians really think? According to a recent Pew poll, they are extremely radical even in comparison to Jordan or Lebanon. When asked whether they preferred “Islamists” or “modernizers,” the score was 59% to 27% in favor of the Islamists. In addition, 20 percent said they liked al-Qaeda; 30 percent, Hezbollah; 49 percent, Hamas. And this was at a time that their government daily propagandized against these groups.
How about religious views? Egyptian Muslims said the following: 82 percent want adulterers punished with stoning; 77 percent want robbers to be whipped and have their hands amputated; 84 percent favor the death penalty for any Muslim who changes his religion.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/egypt-three-possible-outcomes/
These people are bat sh#t crazy. There is no way this is going to end well.
Good discussion on the US and inflation, VAT?
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/28/news/international/inflation_food_prices_middle_east/index.htm?hpt=C2
New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, told CNNMoney’s Poppy Harlow, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week.
Coach says- ” They’re ashamed and embarrassed. He’d probably get his head bashed in if they had their way.”
You are wrong. Very,very wrong. The immediate family would take care of the problem,maybe. If not,it would be one of those things that happen in almost EVERY family,so let’s move on.
There is little morality on reserves.It is not ‘whitemans’ fault,it is their fault. Your comment only passes the buck.
When the Kumbaya Hyperbole of Leftists meets reality. LOL
A New Role for Jihadi Media
Aspiring jihadis need to improve their media skills, such as operating websites and developing their own video sites that resemble YouTube, to be more effective in their fight against the West, according to a new article circulating on a variety of Islamist Internet forums.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2487/a-new-role-for-jihadi-media
CTV gets caught covering for Ignatieff.
http://thealbertaardvark.blogspot.com/2011/01/ctvgate-ctv-cuts-2-seconds-out-of.html
Lest we forget. The Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyid Qutb are both products of Egypt.
This is unlikely to end well and it certainly will not be a ‘democracy’ of any sort. Too many Islamic forces will be in play, I’m afraid.
Here’s a POS (Canadian Medical Association) CMA position paper which just needs to be ripped to shreds:
http://policybase.cma.ca/dbtw-wpd/Policypdf/PD10-07.pdf
Thought I’d check out the CMA website to see if they’d changed their point of view after climategate showed CAGW to be a total fraud, but it looks like the morons who go into medical politics have swallowed the CAGW koolaid and see CAGW as their means to further their statist agenda under the “public health” banner (the date on that POS was summer of 2010).
These idiots need to be flamed. They now talk of “climate change” where every extreme climate event that happens is the fault of “greenhouse gases”. Considering that the primary greenhouse gas is water vapor, then I guess that means that running will be outlawed so the H2O from increased respiration and sweating won’t get into the atmosphere, every lake and river will be paved over so that evaporation will be prevented and water will be strictly rationed. We’re now supposed to do “evidence based” medicine, but I guess that doesn’t apply when one has totalitarian ambitions.
I didn’t need to run into this crap at this hour as I have to work in a few hours but I should note that doctors who are good at medicine tend to just do medicine. Those who aren’t particularly good at doing medicine go into medical politics (Hedy Fry is the best example of that class of physician). Now will just try to relax and get to sleep.
Liberal Iggy’s O’Harvard friend: “*a political obituary”?
“… the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens.”
H/T Belmont Club*:
“*In an article which reads almost like a political obituary, the Haaretz article described Obama’s dilemma: he was unwilling to advocate the democracy agenda of GWB, convinced that Israel was the problem in the Middle East, secretly sympathetic to the democratic aspirations of the population but afraid to destabilize the region.
He was of several minds and temporized. But he was overtaken by events and his march stolen by the more purposeful actors. Now the Iranians have got his number nine ways to Sunday. Now, as Obama surveys the catastrophe overtaking the Western position in the Middle East, he must be wondering “how could it have come to this?”
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“Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt”
“The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt show that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens.”
“Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who “lost” Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America’s alliances in the Middle East crumbled.
The superficial circumstances are similar. In both cases, a United States in financial crisis and after failed wars loses global influence under a leftist president whose good intentions are interpreted abroad as expressions of weakness. The results are reflected in the fall of regimes that were dependent on their relationship with Washington for survival, or in a change in their orientation, as with Ankara.
America’s general weakness clearly affects its friends. But unlike Carter, who preached human rights even when it hurt allies, Obama sat on the fence and exercised caution. He neither embraced despised leaders nor evangelized for political freedom, for fear of undermining stability.
Obama began his presidency with trips to Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and in speeches in Ankara and Cairo tried to forge new ties between the United States and the Muslim world. His message to Muslims was “I am one of you,” and he backed it by quoting from the Koran. President Hosni Mubarak did not join him on the stage at Cairo University, and Obama did not mention his host. But he did not imitate his hated predecessor, President George W. Bush, with blunt calls for democracy and freedom.
Obama apparently believed the main problem of the Middle East was the Israeli occupation, and focused his policy on demanding the suspension of construction in the settlements and on the abortive attempt to renew the peace talks. That failure led him to back off from the peace process in favor of concentrating on heading off an Israeli-Iranian war.
Americans debated constantly the question of whether Obama cut his policy to fit the circumstances or aimed at the wrong targets. The absence of human rights issues from U.S. policy vis-a-vis Arab states drew harsh criticism; he was accused of ignoring the zeitgeist and clinging to old, rotten leaders. In the past few months many opinion pieces have appeared in the Western press asserting that the days of Mubarak’s regime are numbered and calling on Obama to reach out to the opposition in Egypt. There was a sense that the U.S. foreign policy establishment was shaking off its long-term protege in Cairo, while the administration lagged behind the columnists and commentators.
The administration faced a dilemma. One can guess that Obama himself identified with the demonstrators, not the aging dictator. But a superpower isn’t the civil rights movement. If it abandons its allies the moment they flounder, who would trust it tomorrow? That’s why Obama rallied to Mubarak’s side until Friday, when the force of the protests bested his regime.
The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt showed that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens.”
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-will-go-down-in-history-as-the-president-who-lost-egypt-1.340057
*Belmont Club:
“The King’s Speech”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/01/29/the-kings-speech/#comments
Juxtapose this:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Gaza-shuts-border-with-Egypt-as-unrest-spirals/Article1-656399.aspx
O’juxtapose.
“The U.S. Embassy in Cairo told its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country as soon as possible,”.
WrongWay Hilda.
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“Armed gangs free Muslim militants in Egypt”
CAIRO – Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo told its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country as soon as possible, and said it had authorized the voluntary departure of dependents and non-emergency employees, a display of Washington’s escalating concern about the stability of its closest Arab ally.”
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“(Hillary) Clinton heads to Haiti to mediate political crisis”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is flying to Haiti to mediate in a political crisis there while other administration officials are keeping watch on violent protests halfway across the world in Egypt. Clinton will meet Sunday with President Rene Preval and the three candidates vying to succeed him during her visit. She will also see a treatment center for the cholera epidemic that has killed almost 4,000 people.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/01/29/the-kings-speech/#comment-141109
Hope and Fear*
Fear*less WrongWay Hilda: “So I hope”.
>>> “to be friends of my family.”
“It is not in any way connected,” she replied. “I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States.”
O’narcissist*: Hopeless’s legacy.
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“It’s Hope & Change – just not for those oppressed by tyranny
WASHINGTON — Hope and Change, it turns out, is all relative.
They are a sweet elixir when you are talking about electing as president a smooth-talking street organizer with a fistful of vague promises and no governing experience.
But Hope and Change become a noxious gas when you are talking about a popular uprising by freedom fighters shaking loose the iron grip of a 30-year dictatorship.
At least that is how President Obama sees it.
From the moment he took office, Obama has misread the situation in Egypt and sided with the convenience of tyranny over the untidiness of freedom.
Choosing tyranny is easier to do when it is not your skull being fractured by a police baton.
Obama says he has repeatedly urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to reform, but those words are no match for the cover the Obama administration has offered the Mubarak regime.
Just three months into the new administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Egypt and was asked whether Mubarak’s well-documented and violent disregard for human rights made him unwelcome at the White House.
“It is not in any way connected,” she replied. “I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com …”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2665657/posts
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“*Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
More of a rant than a tip-
How come BC is so insane?
I’m from Alberta and I’ve never met so many stoned out idiots in my life.
Maybe thats the whole prob behind the “green” movement – “mary jane” warps one’s mind and makes you susceptible to brainwashing.
It’s fine to party with on occasion, but every day use of a psychoactive drug is not “cool” or “hip” or “groovy”
It just means you “suck ass”
F^^K hippies and let reality be run by the people grounded in it.
end rant
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Just a hypothesis
‘DWRight’ – Welcome to my life! Seriously, imagine what it’s like to live in Vancouver with non-Leftard views. It’s my hometown and a beautiful place to live but intelligent, reasonable conversations with so many people is impossible.
P.S. I personally know some young Albertans who have moved here and fit in very well!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/30/tunisia-ghannouchi-return-idUSLDE70T08O20110130
Tunisia’s leading Islamist,in exile for 22 years,returns to the adulation of the Nation. Is there ANY doubt,even in the minds of the wishful thinkers,about what is happening in the Middle East?
It’s a concerted effort by Islamists to take over in as many States as possible,first Tunisia,then Yemen,now Egypt, and it’s being abetted by Iranian agents.
The old “Domino Theory” was more than just a theory, it was a recognition of the enemy’s plan to take over as much of the world as possible,and the new Islamist Domino theory doesn’t seem to have occurred to the MSM,yet.
PET Cemetery Report:
Filed under “business”, this is by a progressive, aka a leftist.
Liberal Dean Iggy screams, Yes, yes, yes. Taliban Jack LaytoNDP pouts, My head has exploded, again. Commie Duceppe Bloc spits/de cracher, Oui, merde, x $5 million, er $5 billion.
That’s the socialist Separatist Coalition, no?
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“Stephen Harper’s grand achievement”
“By Eugene Lang, Citizen Special January 29, 2011″
“The punditocracy has reached consensus. After five years in government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has no legacy, no signature legislation or policies that will secure his place in the pantheon of Canadian prime ministers. Hence, he has had no meaningful effect on the country. If this leadership deficiency isn’t rectified in Harper’s remaining time in office, we are told, he will be an historical footnote, an ephemeral and transitory figure, an irrelevant prime minister.
Hogwash.
Stephen Harper is a transformational politician in this country’s history.
To be sure, one is hard-pressed to identify a single initiative — like Pierre Trudeau’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Brian Mulroney’s Free Trade Agreement or Jean Chretien’s deficit crusade — that Harper has authored which has had a transformational effect on the country.
But Harper’s grand achievement exists nonetheless, in subtle yet significant ways. The prime minister is altering the political culture of Canada, moving it almost imperceptibly to the right.” (more)
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Stephen+Harper+grand+achievement/4189064/story.html
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/01/29/dear-fellow-canadians-in-quebec/#comment-60114
Oh boy – got US dollars?
http://clarionadvisory.com/?p=11673
Wallyj- Let me get this straight, you’re claiming that 6 year old girls are sexually assaulted, on a regular basis, in almost every family on reserves? Where did you find this statistic?
EDB – wow – you won’t believe this but in the video, I’m quite sure that the interview with the oldest resident of the island, Jenny Tulloch, she showed a picture of her during WW11 with other nurses. I’m quite sure my mother was in that photo she showed. Checked it 5-6 times and I’m quite sure it is mom. I’ll have to try to get in touch with Jenny to confirm it.
Coach, I’m claiming from both statistics and direct involvement with victims, that sexual abuse is rampant on the reserves.It is kept undercover to protect many.
Also coach,I know that many of the victims are extremely discouraged from persuing charges in the “whiteman’s” courts. It is unfortunate,but it happens often.
AGW Progress Report: Monday Edition.
Much Ado ‘Bout Snow, eh?
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“Biggest snowstorm of the season expected for parts of southern Ontario
Globe and Mail – Pat Hewitt – 1 hour ago
Ready the shovels and snowblowers: parts of southern Ontario are preparing for their biggest snowstorm of the season. For Toronto, warnings of the wintry blast come as the city has issued its third extreme cold weather alert.
Major snowstorm headed towards southern Ontario CTV.ca
Snowstorm to blanket southern Ontario CBC.ca”
(googlenews)
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“Get yours here: freecarbonoffsets.com”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/30/quote-of-the-week-10/#more-32754