36 Organizations Paid By The US Tides Foundation/Tides Canada
Vivian Krause shares the Tides Foundation details in the Financial Post;
Like most protests, the one against oil tankers has all the look and feel of a Canadian grassroots movement. The campaign against Alberta’s oil sands also seems to rise out of the people, but the interesting thing is that there are very few roots under that grass. Money comes in from a small core of U.S. charitable groups. One of those groups — the U.S. Tides Foundation of California (Tides U.S.) and its Canadian counterpart have paid millions to at least 36 campaign organizations. (See list at right.)
All the money, at least US$6-million, comes from a single, foreign charity. The Tides U.S. campaign against Alberta oil is a campaign against one of Canada’s most important industries. It’s fair for Canadians to inquire about who’s funding this campaign and why. The trouble is, nobody knows.
Free Geert Wilders!
BREAKING: Prosecutors of Dutch MP Geert Wilders Ask Court To Acquit on All Charges
(Related, oddly enough.)
Update: Andy McCarthy warns “not so fast”…
Where Were You?
During the Great CBC Power Outage Of 2010? Share your stories in the comments below.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Royal Society Barbie: “Math is hard.”
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Five years after Dick Cheney’s minor hunting accident, the Washington Post runs a 3,000-word exposé on the guy who got a piece of birdshot lodged in his throat.
There Are Corrections
…and then, there are corrections.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Via.
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Could you imagine the horror of local smartass Jimmy Inoogajuk when he realizes his little prank has sparked World War III?
The Center Rock Drill Bit
If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men?
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Featured Comment
“I can’t imagine why Obama’s slogan would appeal to a crazy dictator trying to propagandize the youth in his country.”
4300 Miles Later
And I’m home. We had a very successful trip, with nearly every dog in the van scoring at least one major win over the two weekends we showed, starting with my own “Venus” at the Miniature Schnauzer Club of Michigan specialty, and culminating with handling the 8 1/2 month puppy “Mystique’s Finding Neverland” (Thriller) to Best of Winners at the American Miniature Schnauzer Club national at Montgomery County. He’s bred and owned by a good friend, but like everyone else on the string, a member of the extended Minuteman “family”.
Thanks to all the guest bloggers who filled in so ably, yet again. Blogging will be a bit slow while I gather my wits and catch up on both current events and sleep…
Me and Venus at Devon, where she placed second.
Mad Max
… floating trial balloons for the boss … or going roque?
Maverick Max went rogue again in a Toronto speech on Wednesday by advocating Ottawa get out of transfer payments to provinces while giving legislatures more tax room to finance the health, social welfare and education services they are constitutionally obliged to deliver.
For Jim Flaherty, who rolled out a blueprint on Tuesday showing continued growth in the social transfer envelope well into the next government’s mandate, the notion of surrendering $40 billion worth of fiscal clout over the provinces is a severely alien concept.
The Death of Worthless Degrees
I want an electrical engineer and computer programmer and a automechanic to make me a laptop, and I-Pad and a car, and in return I will give them “sociologicizing,” a “lecture on women’s studies,” and some “philosophizing.”
HT and explanation of how leftists don’t understand bartering here.
I Seek An Explanation for Backwardness
When They Lost the Argument
… they invented being green:
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55.6
The national deficit hit a record $55.6 billion in the last fiscal year, though Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he is confident that the government will be able to balance its budget in 2015-2016.
Rudderless
… in Ontario:
So let’s review. Gas power is good until someone says it’s not, then it’s cancelled. Wind power is hated and expensive and, oh yeah, only works when it’s windy, so you need gas power as a backup … and those are getting cancelled. So we could go to solar power, except McGuinty already backtracked on that, making a lot of potential investors nervous. And our plans to build nuclear reactors to pick up the slack are on hold. Well, then. I guess we should count ourselves lucky that the population is “only” projected to grow a mere 36% over the next generation.
Rejected
… for the thriving power-house of Portugal:
Inexplicably, there’ll be no seat on the United Nations Security Council for Canada, an historic slap in the face for a country doing more than its fair share in the UN-sanctioned Afghanistan conflict, with a long history of UN peacekeeping to its credit.