Red Cross denies discussing prisoner conditions with anyone out of "privileged access" to prisoner concerns, including not talking to Canadian diplomats:
http://www.canada.com/news/Cross+rebukes+diplomat+over+Afghan+torture+allegations/2282914/story.html

Andy Canuck
Thanks for that link. Colvin keeps losing credibilty. Again the Liberals keep backing the wrong horse. They should stick to what they do best - putting money in brown paper bags.

Did you read the Blatchford piece about Colvin's emails, too, Ghost of Ed? I think it's still up at National Newswatch if you want to read it.

Yup. saw it earlier today Andy Thanks.

CBC Radio I wasted two hours on the detainee story this afternoon. I was disappointed that Rex was talking about this. It's a yawner, a non-issue.

andycanuck:

Re: Blatchford column.

I just read it. I think Colvin's plot is falling apart.

Killing of 4 Police Officers Has Possible Connection to Mike Huckabee

I have many, many friends in Washington State and so am closely following the aftermath of the tragedy in Tacoma. Here's the latest.

Like all things these days, it seems, there's an alleged political connection. If proved true, I can't say I feel sorry for Mike Huckabee ... and I would say that NO MATTER who the politician in question was.

For those that haven't seen it, here's Christie Blatchford's column about the content of Colvin's emails:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/e-mail-trail-only-adds-to-afghan-questions/article1381168/

to minaret or not to minaret, that is the question

ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/switzerland_referendum_islam_religion

thus it seems the swiss have the answer . . .

Killer column by mark steyn on peer review. I too took note of begley jr. Playing the peer review card. Obviously ed hadn't read any of the leaked documents. But then this guy thinks GM killed the electric car on purpose - twit.

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YjAxYzA3NmI0N2Y1MDVhYzdmM2JkZGIyMjE5ZWU2OTI=

100 bucks says Colvin has a book coming out soon.

I've, er, um, have seen this play before.

The Cop Killer may have been caught: http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2009/11/29/swat-activity-in-leschi

Now I fear the MSM will paint HIM as the victim!

Things looking good in Honduras, of course there will be claims of voting irregularities etc., from the likes of El Presidente in Venezuela. Of course he knows something about irregularities, especially with controlling the media.

Do not know this David Oistrakh, but he deserves 6 stars for that version of Claire de Lune, a piece that was written I imagine, for piano. I can't imagine a rendition that would be even, as beautiful.

In case you haven't seen it:

Who's Who in ClimateGate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_ok37HDuE

Mao (Hi. I'Mo, Liberal Bob Lae's Uncle) Stlong ask, which one you wan?

You wan chelly brossoms or China's GURAG?
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"*A hit with India, Harper looks to charm China"
...-

"Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu
The Great Wall of Confinement
The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

"China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China's prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners' lives from arrest and interrogation to release, and provide a troubling new perspective on the human rights issues plaguing China."

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9294.php

*Ibbitson:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-hit-with-india-harper-looks-to-charm-china/article1382204/

Martin L. Gross Author of National Suicide interviewed by Jim Puplava

http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2009-1126-2.mp3

Mary C. Curtis, Tax-Free Guns with a Side of Barbecue

"I'm living the American dream," said Jack Sheppard. "I've got the No. 1 product in America." That would be guns, and the 42-year-old Sheppard, owner of Aim Right Guns & Ammo, is an expert. At his shop on Main Street in this small South Carolina town just over the state line from Charlotte, N.C., business was brisk. It was a Black Friday bonanza...

Let us see now.

Taking the private jet to Copenhagen
By Jonathan Foreman

“The Copenhagen summit next week will generate vast quantities of hot air. It will see 16,500 people coming in from 192 countries. That amounts to 41,000 tons of carbon dioxide, roughly the same as the carbon emissions of Morocco in 2006.”

Is it not wanderfull how the new religion pays?

Here is the link

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article6931572.ece

He’s in love with the man in the mirror

No one becomes president without a fair share of what the French call amour propre. Does Obama have more than his share of self-regard?

It’s a common theme of Washington buzz that Obama is over-exposed. He gives interviews on his sports obsessions to ESPN, cracks wise with Leno and Letterman, discusses his fitness with Men’s Health, discusses his marriage in a joint interview with first lady Michelle Obama for The New York Times. A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself

Michael Clarke, Avoiding the same mistakes: the international strategy for Afghanistan

Coalition forces have not been in Afghanistan for eight years. They have been there for one year, eight times. Groundhog year after groundhog year, they have rotated and refreshed their forces, consulted and strategised, but they have continually struggled to shape the political agenda in Afghanistan, let alone dominate it. With inadequate forces at their disposal and questionable political will backing them up in their home countries, Coalition forces have become as much a part of Afghanistan's problems as their solution...

Run, goatherds.

Apache helicopter engages Taliban

Apache Helicopter seen engaging Taliban fighters in the Paktika province of Afghanistan after they fired rockets on a joint outpost. As a result of this engagement 9 Taliban were confirmed dead and numerous weapons to include RPGs and Light Machine guns were found.

Thanks 'andycanuck' for the link.

cal2 - Obama is a malignant narcissist, a shallow, uneducated, ill read person, ignorant of history and theory - who has managed to get along in his life by manipulation of others, using race, using misinformation, using 'charm'. That's all he is. His only focus is on Himself.

The Democratic BackRoom Gang saw in him an upfront salesman for their agenda of a total transformation of the US infrastructure from a free market republic whose powers rests in its people and its market, to a socialist regime whose power rests in its unelected elite (czars and bureaucracy) and a govt run economy.

I think they are running into trouble because Obama's narcissism requires ever more 'feeding'. Plus Obama is unable to accomplish anything constructive in foreign affairs because Obama's only strategy for 'getting results' is the race card. The international world is uninterested in being reminded of Obama's 'race'; they are in of different ethnicities themselves and aren't affected by American guilt over its era of slavery.

And because Americans are not pushovers for a socialist and repressive regime. But - the Democrats are trying.

Have you noticed how all of Obama's big announcements are delivered just before he zips out of the country on one of his many jaunts?

Sam Roggeveen, New media and world politics

Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute's influential political commentary site, The Interpreter, ...spoke in Melbourne on 4 November on new media and world politics.

As a participant in the global on[snip] conversation, he offered his perspectives on how new media is changing the world. Drawing on US presidential politics, recent events in Iran, China's on[snip] revolution and other contemporary international events, Sam explored the implications of new media for governments, citizens and businesses.

More examples of the infallibility of science.

8 ‘extinct’ species found alive and kicking:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34152254/ns/technology_and_science-science

For the teachers out there:

Mary Habeck, Teaching the Long War and Jihadism

This presentation will address ways to understand the war on terror, or as I will be calling it, the “long war”; as well as jihadism; and also how to teach these issues to high school students. There are many landmines in teaching this subject, and navigating them can be tricky...

Thanks for the link Post by: 'Charles MacDonald'.
'Apache helicopter engages Taliban'

Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution

Here's another on-line climate poll that is going horribly wrong:
http://cfax1070.com/polls.php?poll=1415

No Ice Water for You
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-ice-water-for-you.html

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the "policy neutral" IPCC (does anyone take this seriously?), suggests that responding to climate change means dramatically changing our unsustainable lifestyles:

Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the Observer.

Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that western society must undergo a radical value shift if the worst effects of climate change were to be avoided. A new value system of "sustainable consumption" was now urgently required, he said.

"Today we have reached the point where consumption and people's desire to consume has grown out of proportion," said Pachauri. "The reality is that our lifestyles are unsustainable."

Kate:

It would be great if you could contact US Senator James Inhope (R-Okla) and advise him, on your site you have gatherd a vast amount of information regarding the CRU leak. I am sure he would appreciate this as it would save his researchers a great amount of time.

Dave: 2:09 PM

Rajendra Pachauri wrote a letter on Sept 21 2009 to the National Post stating, among many things, that unless we shut down the tar sands the oceans will rise and flood the Maldives!

On Oct 20 2009 Nils-Axel Morner, Head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University Sweden wrote a letter to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives copied to the National Post. Prof Morner is the leading scientist in the world on ocean levels. In this letter Morner stated the oceans are not rising and told Nasheed to quit being a alarmist.

This Pachauri guy is part of the CRU fraud and should be charged accordingly.

The Left Coast Nitwit (aka Bill Good) opens up his mind a tiny bit: http://www.corusradio.com/Shared/AudioVault/CKNWAMaudioVault.asp?VaultDate=20091130&VaultTime=08&mysubmit=Listen (beginning at 37:00)

Apparently a flood of e-mails has made him do a slight rethink about AGW.

Bill Good: "Yes, Al Gore's hockey stick graph was slightly discredited but most scientists said it was right on."

And this passes for professional, accurate news & commentary in Canada today.

Sadness prevails :-(

all the climate emails in this weeks news, now in searchable format. My apologies if this has been posted 9 times here already, I'm simply overwhelmed with nausea on this topic... It'll pass when the hangings begin.

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php

TORedStar is pained to announce:

"Economy's gain signals recession's end"

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/732501#comments

The comments are hilarious.