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The list of those outed for their destruction and thievery continues to grow.

oh man that literally hurt my funny bone.

Maybe Balsille should have been taking care of business instead.

2002
[ Chretien, Manley and Balsille hatch the 'Centre for International Governance Innovation', using your tax money naturally. aka One World Governance.

2010
[ CIGI Chair Jim Balsillie appointed to the United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
Balsillie is the panel’s only Canadian and the only representative of the private sector.
The panel is charged with formulating a new vision for sustainable growth, in response to the growing risk of dangerous climate change.]

Today
[With US$3.6-billion wiped off the company’s market value in the past week alone, and approximately US$64-billion since the company’s peak in 2008, even long-standing shareholders appear to be losing faith.]

Too bad, but it could not have happened to a nicer guy.

RIP RIM

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/06/17/rim-where-from-here/

God, I love Eugene Levy.

Here is his famous tribute to "Mr Relaxation".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84AYN6_iUY

Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street band has died following complications from a stroke...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/19/clarence.clemons.obit/

Socialism's Brothers.

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"The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin"

"James Kirchick on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder."

"There were moments reading this book when I was forced to shut it closed, an experience utterly alien to me. Like any reasonably historically-aware individual, I considered myself familiar with the carnage that overtook Europe in the earlier half of the 20th century: the gas chambers and the gulags, the mass shootings and show trials, the wanton disregard for human life and the heinous ideas which compelled people to, actively or passively, play a part in the deaths of tens of millions of fellow human beings. Reading about this period, there comes a point when the sheer scale and horror of the events which took place — the instant incineration of tens of thousands of civilians, for instance — desensitizes one from appreciating the sheer terror and physical pain that individuals endured.

Even with the knowledge of these attrocities, there is still little than can prepare a reader for the grisly accounts of the Ukrainian Famine that Timothy Snyder details in Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Of course, I knew something about the widespread starvation that afflicted Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. This mass culling was directly caused by Josef Stalin’s collectivization policies, which were comprised of seizing private farms and exporting whatever food was grown to the rest of the Soviet Union and beyond. Those who have studied the event in-depth will not find anything new in Snyder’s account. But most readers, I imagine, will reevaluate their conception of the depths of human depravity when they read, in particular, about the widespread cannibalism that became rampant in what Robert Conquest has referred to as “one vast Belsen.” These are tales that one imagined lay only in the realm of zombie films: parents cooking and eating their own children, children in a nursery eating each other, a starving toddler literally eating himself."

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/80201

Leftist Riot In Vancouver.

Unite the Left: The Separatist Coalition.

Recall Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.

H/T Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae.

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"Former Liberal leader Dion makes appearance at NDP convention"

"Instead of his trademark backpack, he carried a bag of materials given to all delegates at this weekend’s federal NDP convention.

Still, there was no mistaking Stéphane Dion.

The former federal Liberal leader stood out amidst more than 1,500 New Democrats at Vancouver’s new convention centre on Saturday."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/former-liberal-leader-dion-makes-appearance-at-ndp-convention/article2066699/

Get on over to the CRTC Online Consultation on CBC's Radio and Television Licence Renewals:

http://www.cbc-consultation.ca/welcome/

h/t matd

Whoops, h/t macd

I did batb.
But I guess they did not like my suggestion on how the CBC and Mark Kelly can improve their act. I told them how I watched Kelly from 20 feet away while he torqued up the panic during the 2009 (not 2003) Kelowna fires. How he threw some dust on a dead calm day and lied to Canadians that the winds were picking up and the situation in Kelowna would be dire. Well, the forcast was for calm, it did! stay calm that day and for the next several days and the fires were subsequently controlled.

I guess the CRTC hearts the CBC and its employees and so deleted my comment after being posted for a day. Kelly probably remembers the guy on the yellow scooter and the toe to toe that ensued. Only one Canadian knew what Kelly was really up to that day and I guess that is one too many for the CBC/CRTC cabal.

Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for 'Adjusted' Sea-Level Data

"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/research-center-under-fire-for-adjusted-sea-level-data/#ixzz1PkHlPIPf

Socialists vs socialism.

Socialism is held hostage by socialists.

The essence of socialism here*.

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"Tens of thousands protest against cuts in Madrid"

"TENS of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid yesterday, blaming bankers and politicians for causing a financial crisis that forced the country to adopt painful spending cuts.

Demonstrators of all ages linked to a protest movement called the "indignants" assembled early yesterday in several neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Madrid."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/tens-of-thousands-protest-against-cuts-in-madrid/story-e6frf7lf-1226078192700

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*The essence of socialism:

"the essence of socialism – grievance, complaint, rhetoric, protests, demonstrations and strikes. But never, ever does socialism do anything productive – no building, no construction, no jobs, no efficient energy, no useful products for the citizens, no stores, no factories. Which is why socialism always causes poverty. Because it is a nonproductive system."

http://www.redstate.com/nikitas3/2011/03/17/communist-china-loves-capitalism-france-no/

Happy Father’s Day!

Crank up the volume and let the testosterone flow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog

“See, what you all need to know about the President you helped to elect is that when it comes to the people he meets, Barack has a memory like a steel trap,” she told her eager audience at a sold-out breakfast fund-raiser at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Calif., on June 14

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/17/cash-for-michelles-mash-notes/#ixzz1PlKPDm4X

"He did not know about or authorize this operation," Carney told the press about President Obama's lack of involvement.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/17/carney_obama_did_not_know_about_or_authorize_border_gunrunning_operation.html

Cribbed from the comments at rcp

"I read a great article about this today in American Rifleman. The program cost $88 million. The funds came from the so-called "stimulus" bill which was written by convicted felon and admitted communist, Van Jones. The Mexican government was NEVER informed nor were they ever given any information which would allow them to trace any weapons they happened to confiscate. The ATF and DEA personnel working in Mexico and along our border were kept completely in the dark and those who sought information were threatened with damage to their careers. Another aspect of the program was a publicity campaign designed to spread the lie that over 90% of the weapons used by the drug cartels in Mexico came from the US. In fact, only a tiny fraction of their weapons come from the US. You can purchase an AK 47 for about $50 on the world market and the porous southern border of Mexico, all 577 miles, is policed by fewer than 125 Mexican border police. There is absolutely no logical reason for a drug cartel to purchase the same weapon in the US for upwards of $1000.

This whole program was a sham designed to push an anti-2d amendment campaign by the Obama adminstration. You won't hear any of this on CNN or NBC. This illegal campaign of lies began at the highest levels of this administration. There is NO way Eric Holder, Marc Rich's attorney, was not involved and frankly, it requires the willing suspension of disbelief to think that [delete] Obama was not involved in this."

"Sarah Brady claims Obama pushing ‘under the radar’ gun control"

April 19, 2011 12:20 pm ET

During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/sarah-brady-claims-obama-pushing-under-the-radar-gun-control

Guns? Try to imagine the socialist commissars of Taliban Jacques Bloc Separatist with guns. Who would be their targets?

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"Still socialists, NDP guns for government
Toronto Sun"

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"Euro heads in talks on $148b Greek bailout
ABC Online"

Taliban Jacques Bloc Separatist will be in a deep tranche, aka DooDoo Pool, after reading "the first tranche of 25,000 or so".

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"Afghan detainee documents to be released
The coveted and long-awaited Afghan detainee documents -- the first tranche of 25,000 or so anyway -- are set to be released Wednesday, QMI Agency has learned."
(canoenews)

Technical help, please. For the first time ever, in order to get new threads/posts here, I need to reboot my computer. ???

If anyone can tell me how to deal with this--other than calling my tech support--I'd be grateful.