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Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French

"Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend.|
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/10344029/Swiss-war-game-envisages-invasion-by-bankrupt-French.html

Very nice with good headphones :)
Canadian Guitar Festival 2010: Calum Graham - "The Channel"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MadlZwIeD5k

Because it doesn't fit the media's fear mongering narrative.

[ The chart above shows the significant, downward trend in the world’s Total Fertility Rate (births per woman) over the last half century, which has fallen in half, from almost 5 births per woman in 1960 to only 2.45 births per woman in 2010. Martin Lewis, a senior lecturer at Stanford University, comments in a recent article that the massive global drop in human fertility in recent years has gone largely unnoticed by the media, partly because it’s contrary to the narrative of overpopulation, mass starvation, resource depletion, environmental devastation, and societal upheaval predicted by Paul Ehrlich and others in the 1960s and 1970s. The decline in fertility rates is also happening for reasons never predicted or advocated by Ehrlich, who proposed government solutions like population controls and sterilization.]

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/05/population-bomb-no-theres-been-a-massive-global-drop-in-human-fertility-that-has-gone-largely-unnoticed-by-the-media/

This afternoon I had to drive from Vancouver, BC down to Bellingham, Washington to pick something up. I have a Nexus pass so usually the delay is no more than 5 minutes. But today it was about 15 minutes. When I got up to the U.S. Customs officer, he seemed quite slow & deliberate in his actions. He asked me to open the trunk for him. That's never happened before. One wonders if this has something to do with the U.S. gov't "closing" today?!

So you thought wind turbines killed a lot of birds!

Think again!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/environment-report-reveals-top-causes-bird-deaths-canada-182231599.html

Govt. shut down ? No big deal. The 17 other times America died.

http://michellemalkin.com/2013/09/30/shutdown-chart-of-the-day-the-17-other-times-america-died/

Atlas shrugs.....but so does America when it comes to Obamacare.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/30/25-of-the-Uninsured-Say-They-Plan-to-Stay-That-Way?NewsWatchCanada.ca

Government efficiency. Just as competent as we expected it to be.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/01/us-usa-healthcare-idUSBRE98T14R20131001?NewsWatchCanada.ca

Maldives set to build 5 underwater airports

http://quixoteslaststand.com/2013/10/02/maldives-building-five-more-underwater-airports/

Have no idea what you said, but I bet I can drive better than you.

Thank you for the link to that song. Guy's song "Like a Coat From the Cold", which I've always assumed was written for Susan, has been one of my favorites since I first heard it more than thirty years ago.

Seedco: Obamacare’s fraud-stained navigators

http://michellemalkin.com/

Neo-STFU Eco-AGW News.

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"giving global warming “skeptics” air time."

"In April, environmental groups sent a letter to the heads of major news networks, urging them to stop treating the issue as a “two-sided debate” by giving skeptics air time."

"Liberal media huddles to re-hype global warming"

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/02/liberal-media-huddles-to-re-hype-global-warming/

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"BBC criticised"

"IPCC coverage gave sceptics 'false balance'"

"BBC coverage of IPCC climate report criticised for sceptics' airtime"

"Steve Jones among experts querying BBC 'false balance' in giving climate sceptics 'undue' voice on global warming study"

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/01/bbc-coverage-climate-report-ipcc-sceptics

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/gunmen-storm-russian-embassy-in-tripoli-no-diplomats-reported-injured/article14661266/

Unknown "gunmen" have attacked the Russian embassy in Tripoli.

"Canadians jailed in Egypt have ended hunger strike, sources say" (G-M)

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"Egypt should release the pair of Canadian useful idiot terror enablers"

"Word has come down that Canadian radical activists John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, currently imprisoned in Egypt, have been accused of murder.

I find it hard to believe those two nitwits would actually have killed anyone."

http://eyecrazy.blogspot.ca/2013/10/egypt-should-release-pair-of-canadian.html

Neo-AGW Progress EV Report.

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"Tesla slides on downgrade, video of Model S in flames"

"Shares of electric car company Tesla sank more than 6 per cent Wednesday after an Internet video showed flames spewing from one of the company’s vehicles following a crash near Seattle. The auto maker also got a rare downgrade from an analyst who wrote that there's limited short-term upside for the company." (G-M)

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Tihs ho!

http://www.youtube.com/v/q0kjI08n4fg?version=3%26hl=en_US

US Government shutdown expands:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/01/NBC-Digital-Starts-Laying-Off-Workers

Democrats Pay Union Members to Protest World War II Vets

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/democrats-pay-union-members-to-protest-world-war-ii-vets.php

Can this POTUS scumbag stoop any lower? What a douchebag. It's un-bee-lee-va-BULL that he's "the leader of the free world."

I think that accolade now goes to PM Stephen Harper.

EDIT 'douche' caught.

Some interesting Australian law-making here:

The High Court resists the New Racism

By Andrew Bolt October 03 2013 (8:50am)
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From the report in The Age, you might conclude the New Racism is becoming even further entrenched in law, offering added inducement to identify as Aboriginal:

Judges will need to consider the Aboriginal background of an offender when sentencing them after a landmark High Court decision ruled that the effects of profound disadvantage do not diminish over time.

The High Court ruled for the first time on Wednesday that a person’s Aboriginal background may reduce their sentence if they come from a deprived or disadvantaged background…

‘’I’m not expecting indigenous people to get really light sentences but I’m expecting that that trajectory of sentences getting harsher will be brought back a bit,’’ Dr [Thalia] Anthony said.

But the two relevant judgments handed down by the High Court this week suggest there is less to fear.

The High Court on its Munda decision:

While it was relevant to take into con sideration an offender’s circumstances of severe social disadvantage, the High Court held that the same sentencing principles must be applied in every case irrespective of an offender’s identity or his or her membership of an ethnic or other group.

The High Court says the same in its Bugmy decision:

The High Court also held that the same sentencing principles apply irrespective of the identity of a particular offender or his or her membership of an ethnic or other group. Additionally, the joint reasons held that the effects upon an offender of profound deprivation do not diminish over time and should be given full weight when sentencing the offender. However, those effects do not necessarily serve to mitigate an offender’s sent ence given the conflicting purposes of punishment, such as rehabilitation and personal and general deterrence, which must be balanced in each individual case.

Mind you, the possibility remains for judges in lower courts to take a wide definition of “background” and to treat offenders less as individuals than representatives of some “race” or tribe.

How many canaries in Red-Green's AGW coal mine?

See Jimbo's list; 37 and, counting.

“Oyster is a canary in a coal mine as oceans warm”

"Almost everything is the canary in a coal mine of global warming climate bad behaviour."

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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/02/climate-craziness-of-the-week-climate-boiling-point/#more-95005

Sampler:

"The Toronto Sun – March 13, 2009
“People went down the coal mine and they used a canary as a barometer of when the air quality in there was bad,” Ewins said yesterday. “This is what the polar bear is, it’s the canary in the global coal mine.”"

"Canadian Press – May 8, 2009
Shrimp can provide valuable insight into broad changes in the marine ecosystem, according to a new study that found the spindly crustaceans serve as canaries in the coal mine when it comes to warming waters and the health of fish stocks."