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Related: ‘Putin shipping Assad more weapons to crush rebels’
Reuters: Russia withdraws request for emergency U.N. Syria meeting

“Following withdrawal of the request for consultations, Security Council meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. (2000 GMT) will not proceed,” Australian Ambassador Gary Quinlan, president of the 15-nation council this month, announced on his Twitter feed @AustraliaUN.
The meeting was expected to focus on a Russian plan to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control, diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

Introducing Mr. Abbott

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TonyAbbott.jpgIf you’re like most Canadians, you probably don’t know much about Australia’s new Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Consider this column (audio discussion of the same) by journalist Simon Kent to be an excellent primer. James Delingpole explains the two paths that Abbott can now take.
Tony Abbott sounds like a true, unapologetic conservative who isn’t afraid to tell Leftists that much of what they spew is bile. Look for outbreaks of “Abbott Derangement Syndrome” (ADS) in the very near future!

Conservatives Win In Norway

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Reuters;

Norway’s opposition Conservatives, promising tax cuts and better healthcare, won elections in a landslide on Monday but faced tough coalition talks with a populist party that wants to spend more of the accumulated oil riches and curb immigration.
Led by Erna Solberg, a former girl scout leader who has overcome dyslexia, the Conservatives promise to diversify the economy away from oil, privatize state firms, and reduce some of the world’s highest taxes rates to give the private sector more breathing room.
Solberg, 52, will become Norway’s second female prime minister, as well as its first Conservative prime minister since 1990. At least the top two cabinet posts – and possibly the top three – are likely to be filled by women.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

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The government they deserve;

The price of power for many Ontario households and businesses has spurted higher as the “global adjustment’ – an extra fee tacked onto the market price – has jumped to a record high.
The market price for electricity in Ontario Tuesday was about 2.5 cents a kilowatt hour. But the global adjustment for September will add another 8.72 cents to the market price for customers who aren’t covered by the province’s regulated price plan.
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It’s a fee added to the market price because most electricity in Ontario doesn’t trade on the open market; some generators have separate contracts with the Ontario Power Authority, others are covered by special rates for renewable power.
Privately owned Bruce Power sells its output under contract to the power authority, for example. Privately owned gas-fired generating stations also have separate contracts, while most wind and solar producers are covered by special feed-in tariff rates that are considerably higher than the average market price.
To cover the cost of those higher-than-market rates, as well as conservation programs, consumers are charged the extra fee, or “global adjustment.”

h/t Rob

On second thought

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Following the US administration’s takes, retakes and gaffes on Syria and the Russian proposition is turning into a head-ache.

Still, the United States said it would take a “hard look” at the plan although State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said “we can’t have this be another stalling tactic.”


I think it’s pretty much a given that the Russian plan will go forward, the UN will love it, the Security Council will approve it and it gives everyone an out.
The only trick now, as seen by that tweet, is how to play it so that it isn’t seen as an off the cuff remark by Kerry but gosh-darned State Dept. policy put forward by the Messiah.

War-monger foiled again

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Prior to After Kerry’s “unbelievably small” comment and one-week ultimatim (which is, well, unbelievable). We see this:

Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to place the nation’s chemical weapons under international control, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday after talks in Moscow, praising the Kremlin for seeking to “prevent American aggression”.

The Russians, showing the world what tools Obama and the US regime are.
Update: Nevermind, it was rhetorical, we still want to go to war!

We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars

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Washington Times;

The Energy Department conceded Friday that the federal government will lose $42 million on a loan to a shuttered Michigan van manufacturer — part of the same program that provided a $529 million loan to an electric car maker that also has gone under.
Vehicle Production Group (VPG), which made vans for the disabled, ceased operations in February and laid off 100 workers, two years after receiving a $50 million federal loan under the same clean-energy program that provided a $529 million loan to electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc., according to the Associated Press.

h/t Matthew

Reader Tips

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The blog’s posting software went down last night, so no updates were possible for a few hours. Your reader tips are welcome here. I’m on the road for much of today, but I’m certain the guest bloggers will keep you all up to speed.

An offer for the outraged

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During the Spanish Civil War, the Western Powers declined to get involved. They were war-weary, were dealing with the depression, joblessness and a restless population. They correctly felt that dealing with another countries business took a back seat to domestic issues.
Sounds like a certain present day conflict, doesn’t it?
Back then, volunteers, mobilized by the Communist party in Canada, went to fight for the Republican (communist, socialist, anarchist) side against the Nationalists (military, monarchist, fascist).
This lead to the creation of the Foreign Enlistment Act in Canada, making it illegal to go and take up arms in a foreign army or to facillitate those intending to do so.
Now, I’m not suggesting anything, but for those like Warren Kinsella1 who advocate sending our troops over to fight in a civil war, you can get a Visa for entry into Turkey online, it’s good for 90 days.
Warren could send his just entered college daughter to go play, instead of just asking the rest of us and his neighbours to send their children.
1 h/t: ron in kelowna

You didn’t fly that

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Whether you’re a pilot, a surgeon, or a president, experience matters:

Pilots with Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III’s background are becoming the exception rather than the rule. Captain Sullenberger, readers will recall, carefully ditched his Airbus A320 close to a jetty in the Hudson River in January 2009 without loss of a single life, after the plane had been disabled by a flock of geese while climbing out of LaGuardia airport. It should be pointed out that Sully learned to fly at the age of 16, flew F-4 Phantoms in the air force, and had 40 years and 20,000 hours of mostly hands-on experience when he performed his heroics on the Hudson.

The problem today is that aircrew may log thousands of hours on the flight decks of modern airliners, but their actual hands-on flying experience may amount to mere minutes per flight. When things get frantic–whether through a mistaken input or a sudden runway change by air-traffic control during descent–aircrew can be so preoccupied punching fresh instructions into the flight-management computer that they may fail to notice their airspeed and altitude are falling precipitously.

The whole thing here.
h/t

The Voiceless

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By now, everyone has seen the Missing in Action post about Hollywood’s most notorious peace-niks. (Link via Syd in the Readers Tips.)
You may also have read Ed Asner explaining why.

“A lot of people don’t want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama,” he said.

I find that answer utterly gratifying.
The Syrian vote is going to fail. There’s no going back now. The President has no respect in the world now and won’t lose any more when Congress slaps him down. It was the people who stopped it. Congress has been flooded with communications and if lawmakers vote their constituents wishes as opposed to a whipped vote, any Congressionally approved Syrian war is done.
The activist actors accomplished nothing in the last ten years except to silence themselves. They, on their career soapboxes, defined the Tea Party, Romney, the evils of conservatives. They used racism as the de facto root cause of criticism of Obama.
Now their hands are tied by their own ill-concieved and misguided beliefs. They have been revealed as the partisan hypocrites we always knew they were. Looks good on them.
What is the worst thing to do to an actor? Take away their voice. Best thing? We didn’t do it to them.

Obama’s war wound

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Retired Army major general Robert H. Scales in the Washington Post:

After personal exchanges with dozens of active and retired soldiers in recent days, I feel confident that what follows represents the overwhelming opinion of serving professionals who have been intimate witnesses to the unfolding events that will lead the United States into its next war.

They are embarrassed to be associated with the amateurism of the Obama administration’s attempts to craft a plan that makes strategic sense. None of the White House staff has any experience in war or understands it. So far, at least, this path to war violates every principle of war, including the element of surprise, achieving mass and having a clearly defined and obtainable objective.

A little scratching and hair-pulling wouldn’t do much harm, though:

One officer told me: “To hell with them. If this guy wants this war, then let him have it. Looks like no one will get hurt anyway.”

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