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  1. Dishonest political tampering with the science on global warming
    – December 05, 2007
    Christopher Monckton, Denpasar, Bali
    As a contributor to the IPCC’s 2007 report, I share the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Yet I and many of my peers in the British House of Lords – through our hereditary element the most independent-minded of lawmakers – profoundly disagree on fundamental scientific grounds with both the IPCC and my co-laureate’s alarmist movie An Inconvenient Truth, which won this year’s Oscar for Best Sci-Fi Comedy Horror.
    Two detailed investigations by Committees of the House confirm that the IPCC has deliberately, persistently and prodigiously exaggerated not only the effect of greenhouse gases on temperature but also the environmental consequences of warmer weather.
    read it all at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20071205.!15

  2. Here is the final paragraph of Christopher Monckton’s address to the Bali Climate Conference:
    My fellow-participants, there is no climate crisis. The correct policy response to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. Take courage! Do nothing, and save the world’s poor from yet another careless, UN-driven slaughter.
    The writer is an international business consultant specializing in the investigation of scientific frauds. He is a former adviser to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and is presenter of the 90-minute climate movie Apocalypse? NO! He can be reached at monckton@mail.com

  3. Another G&M poll about to crash:
    In Canada as a whole, multiculturalism is:
    0 a failed policy of the past (currently 86%)
    0 an indispensable part of our future (currently 14%)
    Have your say 😉

  4. I heard on the news that Jacques Hebert has kicked the bucket. Being as it was a CBC feed, they made a big deal of it.
    Wasn’t he Trudeau’s travelling companion on his famous propaganda absorption trip in Red China?

  5. An American Hero earns $145,000 daily and works in Irving Texas.
    adbusters.org/the_magazine/66/An_American_Hero.html
    Oh, is that where the New Brunswick Irving Oil name comes from? Just guessing. = TG

  6. This, from Suzuki’s blog;
    November 29, 2007 The David Suzuki Foundation is sending three official observers to the United Nations’ climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia.
    Dale Marshall
    Climate change policy analyst
    David Suzuki Foundation
    Bali cell phone: +62-81-338-989-713
    dmarshall@davidsuzuki.org
    Mark Lutes
    Climate change and energy policy analyst
    David Suzuki Foundation
    Bali cell phone: +62-81-338-969-671
    mlutes@davidsuzuki.org
    Sarah Marchildon
    Communications specialist
    David Suzuki Foundation
    Bali cell phone: +62-81-338-989-047
    smarchildon@davidsuzuki.org

  7. Good link Lorraine !!
    The UK’s Monckton told it like it is.
    Gore’s ears must be burning. But what can he do about it ? Debate ?? Argue ? Counter with more lies ?
    Suzuki has also been running from Tim Ball for the past decade. Pathetic.

  8. In the early 1990’s some environmentalists took to calling British Columbia the **Brazil of the North**.
    This was meant in a derogatory fashion to compare forest practices in BC with the destruction of the rainforest in Brazil.
    [. . . . ],
    Anyway, here is the report I wrote for the Forest Alliance upon our return. The main message is, don’t believe what you hear through the media about other countries, go there and see for yourself!
    There is no basis for the slogan **Brazil of the North**. It is an undeserved insult to both B.C. and Brazil and does nothing to promote understanding or advancement in sustainable use of the land in either country.
    Brazil is addressing land use issues and sustainable forestry in a proactive and progressive manner. Legislation and policy are in place to improve restoration and protection of native forests.
    Forestry practices in Brazil and British Columbia are very different. There are a number of general areas where B.C. and Brazil can learn from each other such as biodiversity protection and land use planning.
    There should be far greater exchange of information and expertise between B.C. and Brazil. Both regions have extensive native forests and a common interest in sustainable forestry and trade issues involving forest products.
    Brazil is not a major exporter of tropical hardwoods as it accounts for only 1.4% of international trade in tropical timber. The fact that the Amazon forest is far larger than any other tropical forest makes their relative trade position even smaller. Canada accounted for 17.3% of all trade in forest products in 1991, according to FAO documents
    One of the main differences between forestry in Brazil and in B.C. is that in Brazil the solid wood products industry and the pulp and paper industry are completely separate. In B.C. the pulp and paper industry is based on the waste from the timber industry. In Brazil the timber industry is based on native tropical hardwoods while the pulp and paper industry is dependent on plantations of exotic pines and eucalyptus. The pulp plantations are grown on land that was already cleared for agriculture.
    Plantation forestry is a proven technology in the south of Brazil and on the Atlantic coast. In the Amazon, plantation forestry is in a newer stage at Jari, 450 kilometres northwest of the mouth of the Amazon River. But it appears eucalyptus will be a success at Jari thus opening up the possibility of more plantations in the Amazon region.
    Another major difference between B.C. and Brazil is that there are no publicly owned commercial forest lands in Brazil. Essentially all lands except parks are privately owned. Forest land owners must file a land use plan and receive government permission to implement it. There is more state control over private land use in Brazil than in B.C. In B.C. there is total control over public land.
    greenspirit.com/key_issues.cfm?msid=52
    ========================================
    A sudden refined fuels shortage would bring BC to it*s collective knees. Not so, Brazil, who are 80% dependant upon native production Ethanol and Methanol fuels.
    Like us, Brazil has warts, yet the management seems sharp. Ex-pat WWII German enclave input?= TG

  9. When planning to engage a more powerful, smarter power it is always useful to politically arrange that 3 of 4 of his limbs be tied behind his back before the final event.
    -Sun Tzu

  10. This week Stephane Dion headed north to the Yukon to talk about Global Warming. In his address to an audience in Whitehorse we can finally see what he will be up to in Bali.
    From the Liberal.ca website:
    “The world has come together in Bali to try to prevent environmental disaster. But this government stands in the way,” he said.
    This government is undermining years of work by the international community to take real action against global warming. This Prime Minister has turned Canada from leader to laggard to saboteur. He must reverse his position in Bali.”
    “Ultimately, all the countries of the world will need to set significant binding targets for reductions. But only if the richer, developed countries set the example will developing countries follow. I want Canada to lead the rest of the world, not hold it back.
    That’s the message I will bring with me to Bali when I go there in a few days. And that’s what I would work towards as prime minister,” he said.”

  11. A coup/bonanza for Mr. Fruitfly? Is Big Bobby Clobber in on the deal/traction/fraud?
    …-
    NHLers to help Suzuki ice global warming
    “players are taking the lead by buying carbon credits to offset the environmental impact of their extensive travel during season play.” […]
    “”To have … all these great heroes to Canadian kids taking a stand on one of the most important issues of our time is wonderful,” Suzuki told reporters at a downtown hotel last night. “I can assure you, the traction you’re going to get from this stand is far beyond anything environmentalists like I can get.”” …-
    (TO Red Star)

  12. Re: the G&M poll about multicult, as of 7:45 am the poll now stands at 76% con and 24% pro. It’ll likely switch to the other side before the poll closes…let’s watch.

  13. Three Muslim Taliban murderers poofed by their own hands. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP is not amused.
    …-
    Taliban Militants Mistakenly Blow Themselves Up
    FNC ^ | Friday, December 07, 2007 | AP
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Three Taliban militants were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely, as Afghan and foreign troops launched an operation to retake a neighboring Afghan town controlled by Taliban militants, officials said. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936581/posts

  14. Eeyore: at 8:48, the Probe and Fail’s poll is still at 76%: multicululturalism is a failed policy of the past vs. 24%: it’s an indespensible part of our future.
    Just the fact that the G&M is asking this question seems to be a step in the right direction. I can’t see this issue even being on the table a couple of years ago.
    Poco a poco, centimeter by centimetre. Perhaps there’s still room for hope…
    …and with Citoyen De-yawn really going off the deep end with his comments vis a vis the Bali Conference and his pathetic “here I come to save the day” delusions of grandeur, we COULD be seeing the dissolution of the Librano juggernaut.
    Being a praying person, my prayer is “Please, God…”

  15. Now that you are already tired of The Little Drummer Boy, don’t forget the Canadian carol The Huron Carol. Don’t know if it is politically correct or not, but it is beautiful (written by Jean de Brébeuf a Jesuit Missonary in 1643). Bruce Cockburn had a version and of course Tom Jackson had his charity Christmas tour with that name:
    English Lyrics
    ‘Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled
    That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead;
    Before their light the stars grew dim and wondering hunters heard the hymn,
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.
    Within a lodge of broken bark the tender babe was found;
    A ragged robe of rabbit skin enwrapped his beauty round
    But as the hunter braves drew nigh the angel song rang loud and high
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.
    The earliest moon of wintertime is not so round and fair
    As was the ring of glory on the helpless infant there.
    The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.
    O children of the forest free, O sons of Manitou
    The holy Child of earth and heav’n is born today for you.
    Come kneel before the radiant boy who brings you beauty, peace and joy.
    Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

  16. ‘Beautiful carol.
    I can’t see why it would be politically incorrect to remind Canadians of a Canadian-written carol in the Season of Advent.
    Unless, of course, the politically correct thought police are patrolling in the vicinity.
    ‘Might be offensive to certain immigrants to our country or certain agnostic/atheist pooh-bahs in our ruling classes.
    Well, bah-humbug.

  17. I was thinking more that aboriginals would object because it was written by a Jesuit missionary who was trying to convert them.
    Also I think that the word for God Gitchi Manitou was the Iroquois name for God, not the Huron name, or something like that.
    I don’t hear this song much anymore which is a shame. It would be great in a Christmas pageant at school, if such things exist any more.
    There is a Jamaican Christmas song I have heard from time to time which I find very catchy, something about Jesus being born in a manger – help me out here!

  18. I was thinking more that aboriginals would object because it was written by a Jesuit missionary who was trying to convert them.
    Also I think that the word for God Gitchi Manitou was the Iroquois name for God, not the Huron name, or something like that.
    I don’t hear this song much anymore which is a shame. It would be great in a Christmas pageant at school, if such things exist any more.
    There is a Jamaican Christmas song I have heard from time to time which I find very catchy, something about Jesus being born in a manger – help me out here!

  19. I was thinking more that aboriginals would object because it was written by a Jesuit missionary who was trying to convert them.
    Also I think that the word for God Gitchi Manitou was the Iroquois name for God, not the Huron name, or something like that.
    I don’t hear this song much anymore which is a shame. It would be great in a Christmas pageant at school, if such things exist any more.
    There is a Jamaican Christmas song I have heard from time to time which I find very catchy, something about Jesus being born in a manger – help me out here!

  20. Once again, righteous environmentalists show the way. Will the self-sacrifice never end. Nobel prize nominations please.
    “The Suzuki Foundation calculates that NHL players generate an average of about 10 tonnes of carbon emissions every year flying to games, staying in hotels and driving to and from arenas. At a cost of $29 per tonne, players will pay $290 each to offset their emissions.”

  21. Nicola – probably the one you are thinking of is “Mary’s Boy Child”. I like it too.
    “Long time ago in Bethlehem,
    So the Holy Bible says.
    Mary’s Boy Child, Jesus Christ,
    Was born on Christmas day.”
    Hark now hear……..

  22. Mary’s boy child
    Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day
    and man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
    long time ago in Bethlehem so the Holy Bible said
    Mary’s Boy Child
    Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day.
    Hark now hear the angels sing
    a King was born today
    and man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
    Mary’s Boy Child
    Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day.
    While shepherds watched their flocks
    by night they see a bright new shinig star
    they hear a choir sing a song
    the music seemed to come from afar.
    Hark now hear the angels sing
    a King was born today
    and man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
    hm hm

    For a moment the world was aglow
    all the bells rang out
    there were tears of joy and laughter
    people shouted let ev’ryone know
    there is hope for all to find peace.
    How Joseph and his wife Mary came to Bethlehem that night
    they found no place to bear her child not a single room was in sight
    and then they found a little nook in a stable all forlorn
    and in a manger cold and dark Mary’s little boy was born
    Hark now hear the angels sing
    a King was born today
    and man will live for evermore because of Christmas Day
    Mary’s Boy Child
    Jesus Christ was born on Christmas Day.
    For a moment the world was aglow

    Oh my Lord
    you send your son to save us
    oh my Lord
    your very self you gave us
    oh my Lord
    that sin may not enslave us
    and love may reign once more.
    Oh my Lord
    when in the crib they found him
    oh my lord
    a golden halo crowned him
    oh my Lord
    they gathered all around him
    to see him and adore.
    Oh my Lord
    with the child’s adoration
    oh my Lord
    there came great jubilation
    oh my Lord
    and full of admiration
    they realized what they had (until the sun falls from the sky)
    Oh my Lord (well praise the Lord)
    they had just begun to doubt you
    oh my Lord (he is the truth forever)
    what did they know about you.
    Oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
    but they were lost without you
    they needed you so bad (his light is shinig on us)
    Oh my Lord (oh my Lord so praise the Lord)
    with the child’s adoration
    Lord (oh my Lord
    he is a persontion).
    There came great jubilation
    oh my Lord (so praise the Lord)
    and full of admiration
    they realized what they had (until the sun falls from the sky)
    e just can’t go wrong.
    You’ve got the right combination for me

  23. Textbooks used to include the account of Jean de Brébeuf being tortured, killed and cannabalized by the Iroquois. Probably no longer the case.

  24. 1) OTTAWA – Joe Clark was assaulted on a downtown Montreal street last month by a man who asked if he was the past prime minister before punching him in the face and leaving him with a bloody nose.
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2c9fe04e-b005-4f48-a50f-e2711240877a&k=90975
    That poor man!
    I hope his hand is okay.
    2) really right wing dude
    One of the reasons my web site doesn’t have comments.
    3)did my bit at G&M poll was still at 74% correct

  25. À propos of my previous, positive, Christmas post about carols, I have found the lyrics of a Jamaican carol which is called “Mary Had a Baby”. Of course it has more impact with young children singing it and the fast tempo music!
    Mary had a baby (My Lord)
    Mary had a baby (Oh My Lord)
    Mary had a baby (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Where did she lay him (My Lord)
    Where did she lay him (Oh My Lord)
    Where did she lay him (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Laid him in a manger (My Lord)
    Laid him in a manger (Oh My Lord)
    Laid him in a manger (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    What did she name him? (My Lord)
    What did she name him? (Oh My Lord)
    What did she name him? (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Named him King Jesus (My Lord)
    Named him King Jesus (Oh My Lord)
    Named him King Jesus (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Who heard the singing? (My Lord)
    Who heard the singing? (Oh My Lord)
    Who heard the singing? (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Shepherds heard the singing (My Lord)
    Shepherds heard the singing (Oh My Lord)
    Shepherds heard the singing (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Star keeps shining (My Lord)
    Star keeps shining (Oh My Lord)
    Star keeps shining (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Moving in the elements (My Lord)
    Moving in the elements (Oh My Lord)
    Moving in the elements (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Jesus went to Egypt (My Lord)
    Jesus went to Egypt (Oh My Lord)
    Jesus went to Egypt (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Traveled on a donkey (My Lord)
    Traveled on a donkey (Oh My Lord)
    Traveled on a donkey (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    Angels went around him (My Lord)
    Angels went around him (Oh My Lord)
    Angels went around him (My Lord)
    The people keep coming but the train has gone
    (Bruce Cockburn has a version of this)

  26. Nicola, ‘wasn’t even thinking of “the offense” that The Huron Carol might bring to Native Canadians.
    As far as I know, I haven’t heard that they resent it.
    And, let’s face it. Had the shoe been on the other foot, had the Natives set foot on the land of the Jeuits–which they hadn’t, of course, because they had invented canoes not ocean-going sailing ships–would they have adapted THEIR ways to the Jesuit ways?
    I doubt it.
    There’s this double standard that Explorer Christians should have adapted to the Native ways, rather than “impose” their ways upon the Natives, even though when warring tribes took over another tribe’s territory the usual practice was to murder, scalp, rape, and pillage the “conquered” people. Winner take all.
    It can hardly be said that the Jesuits murdered, scalped, raped, or pillaged the Native communities they lived in. They lived with the Native people to whom they brought Christianity, they worked with them, and helped them, and it’s far from universally true that Aboriginal Peoples are unhappy to be Christians.
    Ask some of them. Except for activist Natives, and the Godless MSM and academia, many thousands of Native Canadians go to church, love Jesus Christ, and do not resent the Christianizing of North America.
    In fact, it’s an irony, that many Native Christians are more orthodox and more upset about our Godless society than those Christians whose ancestors brought the Christian religion to Canada.

  27. Toronto Sun Reports: Dangerous Perv in Toronto,
    “High risk to Re-Offend Child Predator sent to Halfway House”
    Christopher Goodwin 26, moved to the Keele Centre Yesterday after completing a 2 1/2 yr. lock-up in kingston for the shocking assualt on a 6yr old girl in a Scarbough Mall in 2003.
    This sick B*****d tried to rape a 6yr old girl in front of men & women shopping in a mall, If it had not been for the intervention of shoppers this sicko would have succeeded.
    What the F*** is wrong with this picture, What is it going to take for these lefty opposition members to let these laws pass so Sick Bas**** like this are put away for a very long time. What is wrong with the parole boards for allowing his release when he states he will re-offend.

  28. Sounds like Nicols’s heart is in the right place and means to offense to anyone. As for myself, I have had it right up to here with “Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays”. You can stuff that. When some greets me with those terms I get in their face with a nice smile and wish them a “Merry Christmas” and if they are offended by that well tough Sh%t! I am the one being seriously offended by the PC crowd and their agenda for social engineering.

  29. How long will it be before this is tied to AGW?
    Code words: “environmentally sensitive” ; “ecological disaster.” And ….. “fears”.
    …-
    “Oil spill fouls South Korean beach”
    “South Korea has mobilized an army of workers and volunteers to contain an enormous oil spill, which has fouled an environmentally sensitive shoreline.”
    […]
    “Kim Jong-sik, an official with the ministry of maritime affairs and fisheries, said there are fears the spill could cause an ecological disaster.” …-
    (cbc)

  30. NOTICE: When drive-bys litter a comments thread, please refrain from responding to them in ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER. You only create more work for me.

  31. Certainly hope Monckton gets to ring in the the ears of the great Environmental saviour, Steffawn Deeyawn. He may need to be pulled up by his little ears, more likely.
    Looks like the silly Dweeb is off to Bali in an attempt to play the role of Opposition leader on the world stage. He’ll be getting lots of coverage from Liberal lovers in our MSM who will get just the right clips.

  32. Suzuki talks NHL players into taking a voluntary penalty, even though it just amounts to pennies for that crowd.
    Maybe there is some truth to that saying after all.
    The only thing worse than ‘athletes foot’ is ‘athletes brain’ 🙂

  33. Now for today’s laugh, courtesy of CTV:
    “The activists say that the Kyoto Protocol is built on the recognition that industrialized countries are largely responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change and must lead the reduction fight.
    While emerging economies like China and India must slow their emissions growth, the activists say that they should not be subject to the same absolute reduction targets as developed countries.
    Canada — which has 0.4 per cent of the world’s population yet produces two per cent of greenhouse gas emissions — the United States and Australia are the world’s biggest per capita emitters. Canada and the U.S. emitted about 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents per capita in 2004.
    In comparison, China emitted 3.8 tonnes and India 1.2 tonnes.”
    Apparently, if a “poor” country emits CO2, it doesn’t warm the earth like a “rich” country’s emissions. Yeah right. Who cares about per capita emissions, the question should be, who are significant emitters and who is growing their emissions faster? Answer – China and India.
    What utter nonsense from these bobbleheads. More evidence that Kyoto is a money laundering socialist, nail capitalism scheme has just been presented.

  34. Canada is a big, big country with a lot of clean air.
    Canada has a small population.
    We, therefore, must be at the top of the list —- ‘tonnes of clean air per capita’
    Don’t worry Canadians — be happy 🙂

  35. Overheard at UN.
    **Oil for Food was a walk in the park. Getting this Carbon Credits Caper off the ground is gonna be rocky.**
    ============== Bali
    **My fellow-participants, there is no climate crisis. The correct policy response to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. Take courage! Do nothing, and save the world’s poor from yet another careless, UN-driven slaughter.**
    The writer is an international business consultant specializing in the investigation of scientific frauds. He is a former adviser to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and is presenter of the 90-minute climate movie Apocalypse? NO!
    ==============
    If some of the GW hot air energy had been channeled properly, clean coal-tech could have been underway by now. = TG

  36. Joe Clark punched .
    Clark, 68, says he notified the RCMP and they referred the incident to the Montreal police, who interviewed him in detail.
    The assailant was in his 40s or 50s, Clark said. “He was a white Anglo-Saxon. He was unaccented in his speech to me.”
    lets Borat Dion off the hook.

  37. No need to *jab* the NDP.
    They have the blues, they are down, apathetic.
    Pragmatist posted.. **Apathy.
    It’s hard to muster up any enthusiasm for talking about politics lately. Although I’m definitely still firmly behind the NDP on policy matters.
    I can certainly see why the latest SES poll sees more and more Canadians (spontaneously!) choosing **none of the above.** **Unprecedented,** Nik Nanos calls it. I’ll see him that and raise him a **depressing.**
    Canajun said… **It’s about rhetoric. It’s about being sick of the pounding negativity that pervades our entire political process these days, in ALL parties. **
    Josh Gould said…
    ** …we should pass legislation that single-party minority governments should be illegal.**
    http://idealisticpragmatist.blogspot.com/2007/12/apathy.html
    So, standing in for Jack Layton, I outlined why these are the best of times for the NDP. Times of opportunity.
    Alas, no buyers.. my comment ended the Dec 30th thread..
    Too bad = TG

  38. “To explain what might have happened, he recounts the chilling story of a female researcher in her 20s who was savaged near here.
    The only predator that will actively stalk a human, the polar bear had hidden in wait behind the huge tyres of a tundra buggy and pounced as the woman disembarked from a helicopter and dashed to the vehicle.
    “She had four huge puncture wounds in her back, and would have died if a guy hadn’t jumped out of the buggy and hit the bear with a long pole,” Dennis says.
    “Those bears seem to love the scent after people drink coffee, and I’d hate to have to shoot one.”
    …-
    ‘Polars bears on the brink? Don’t you believe it’
    By DAVID JONES
    When you’re up above the Arctic Circle, on the trail of polar bears who haven’t eaten a square meal in months, it’s advisable to follow a few basic rules.
    Number one, as perishing cold as you may be, is don’t drink too much coffee.
    Unfortunately, as an incurable caffeine addict, wildlife documentary maker Nigel Marven can’t adhere to this great unwritten imperative while filming his latest series out on the frozen North Canadian tundra.
    As a result, I find myself peering anxiously from the safety of a frosten-crusted Jeep, wondering whether I am about to witness the moment that Nigel becomes his star performer’s lunch.
    Polar bears, you see, have an acute sense of smell which helps them to track down prey up to 60 miles away. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/39olxs (dailymail)

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