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  3. The jet planes are soon a’goin’ home from Bali – some of them, anyway: “Bali deal reached”
    From the article:

    BALI, Indonesia — In a dramatic finish to a U.N. climate conference, world leaders adopted a plan Saturday for negotiating a new global warming pact by 2009, after the United States backed down in a battle over wording supported by developing nations and Europe.
    The U.S. stand had drawn loud boos and sharp rebukes — “Lead … or get out of the way!” one delegate demanded — before Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky reversed her position, clearing the way adoption of the so-called “Bali Roadmap.”
    “The United States is very committed to this effort and just wants to really ensure we all act together. We will go forward and join consensus,” she said.
    The sudden reversal was met with rousing applause….

    In other words, the U.S. either caved in or is stringing them along. Result: two more years of “talks.”

  5. Ontario Human Rights Commission gets hate calls.
    Targeting of Asian fishermen `very grave’
    …The interim report follows the creation of a hotline and a month-long online survey, set up in partnership with the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic.
    The commission received 34 responses, including some “hate calls containing death threats and racist abuse.”….
    http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/285873

  6. SCIENTISTS TELL UN-IPCC; “DON’T FIGHT ADAPT”
    We should give up futile attempts to combat climate change
    http://tinyurl.com/3bjoxk
    “”The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to view CO2 emissions as harmful, the IPCC’s conclusions are quite inadequate as justification for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity. In particular, it is not established that it is possible to significantly alter global climate through cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions. On top of which, because attempts to cut emissions will slow development, the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it. (…)
    The current UN focus on “fighting climate change,” as illustrated in the Nov. 27 UN Development Programme’s Human Development Report, is distracting governments from adapting to the threat of inevitable natural climate changes, whatever forms they may take. National and international planning for such changes is needed, with a focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens adapt to conditions that lie ahead. Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems.
    Yours faithfully,
    http://tinyurl.com/2y94k9 “”

  7. ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ENVIRO-SCAREMONGERING AT WORK:
    http://tinyurl.com/2ewmy6
    “” Environmental Defense and other anti-PVC activists are engaged in a fear-mongering campaign that’s attempting to convince retailers like Sears to de-select PVC without a shred of scientific evidence,” said Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder and Chairman and Chief Scientist, Greenspirit Strategies Ltd..
    PVC is commonly known as vinyl or polyvinyl chloride. It has recently come under attack by Environmental Defence Canada.
    “It’s completely unacceptable for these activists to call PVC ‘toxic’ when PVC’s effects on health and the environment have been investigated at every stage from manufacture through use and on to final disposal – in all cases vinyl has been shown to be safe and environmentally sound,” said Moore.
    “The most rigorous risk assessment ever undertaken by the European Union on plasticizers used to make PVC flexible was conducted over 10 years, and concluded these widely used additives should not be classified as hazardous and pose no risks to either human health or the environment from their current use,” said Moore.””

  8. Danial R:
    In other words, the U.S. either caved in or is stringing them along. Result: two more years of “talks.””
    2 years for legitimate science to prove the kyoto approach/science is unwarranted….
    … and 2 years for economists to prove the Kyoto approach is not feasible and will damage emerging nations…
    …and 2 years for calmer rational political heads to prove the Kyoto approach does nothing but create another unaccountable level of government (UN-IPCC) feeding on tax payers and producing no results….
    ….and 2 more years to mercilessly savage the profiteering UN-IPCC miscreants who falsified climate science for personal gain.

  9. Not excatly reader tips but . . . .
    It’s -15 degress here in southern Ontaaarriiaarriio.
    No global warming and one hell of a snowstorm about to hit us later today and Sunday..
    Also the good news is thst the polar bears are not drowning in the arctic this week, lots of floes to float on.
    ……………….
    The CBC having been caught with its fondling the (ethics committee ?? )questioner with its (CBC’s) questions just reinforces the fact that the public broadcaster is nothing more than a left wing propaganda media tool.
    ………………..
    And just a suggestion for Kate.
    Put back the slogan on the SDA masthead,
    ” SDA – Bringing down governments (Saskatchewan) and CBC One At A Time.”
    And with any luck, by the time SDA reaches ten million visitors CBC will be run by private money or elese in oblivion- where thy belong.

  10. Conservative government cuts taxes.
    Att! FinMin Flaherty: More, please.
    …-
    GST falls to 5%, other taxes cut under new law
    OTTAWA — A range of tax cuts, including another one per cent cut in the GST, was passed into law Friday. The GST cut, to five per cent, will take effect in January. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2dzftx (winnfpress)

  11. If your hoping to find a place to buy your CARBON INDULGENCES, I’ve found it….
    http www terrapass.com
    You can pay $10 per plane ride, carbon offsets for your wedding, dorm room, your house. You can pay money to “balance” anything. They will take your money and try to prevent cow farts from killing us all. If your worried that it is a scam, everything you buy comes with a shiny authenticity certificate you can hang on you fridge.
    I saw this at the tard oasis Daily kos. The scammers know where the idiots who buy this tripe hang out.

  13. Hey Kids!…great idea….privatize CBC through IPOs then it can be a make work project for Con Black on his probation 😉

  14. 1963 GODDESS
    Saw Dr No on TV the other night (first re-watch, I think). Was very surprised to learn how much my wife liked her. Was struck by the innocence of it, by how vivid was my memory of her emerging from the surf, by how it never ever occurred to me to want to see her nude, by how grotesque it all is today by comparison AND by how long ago it was: migawd, 45 years!
    Ursula Andress Dr No White Bikini 1963

  16. Iraqis swap dollars for dinars as confidence and families flood back
    Armed with a plastic bag of cash, the Iraqi businessman walked into an estate agency in Baghdad to buy a new house with his savings.
    The wads of money that Haider Azzawi handed over provided a striking symbol of the emerging Iraq: they were not US dollars, the currency used for big purchases since the 2003 invasion — the seller did not want them. He wanted local currency, so Mr Azzawi handed over 125 million Iraqi dinar (£51,000).
    The exchange is explained partly by the weak dollar, but it also speaks of the renewed confidence in Iraq’s future, fuelled by improved security and families who had fled the sectarian violence beginning to return….

  18. “The most dramatic improvement is in Newfoundland, where the Tories now have 38 per cent support — up from the teens during the worst of the Atlantic accord dispute.”
    Harper’s fortunes rise in region […]
    The Tories have picked up 10 points in the region since August, the poll from Corporate Research Associates shows. …-
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/998433.html

  19. Saddam where?
    Here: “a teen boy came to say he knew where “important people were hiding.”
    …-
    Soldier recounts Saddam’s capture
    A day after the fourth anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s capture, Chico veterans and others welcomed one of the participating soldiers on Friday.
    Now retired, Army Lt. Col. Steve Russell of Oklahoma City praised American soldiers for their role in the Iraq war, and their families for making sacrifices.
    His appearance came during the Red, White and Blue Christmas dinner and fundraiser for local National Guard families at the Elks Lodge. More than 500 attended.
    The unit that Russell commanded was one of the central players in Hussein’s capture.
    “It was one of the proudest days in my life,” Russell said of Hussein’s capture on Dec. 13, 2003, the result of a long journey of pursuing leads and enduring the deaths of American soldiers.
    “It was the result of six months of hard work on the part of regular soldiers.” Twelve-hundred soldiers took part in the raid.
    Russell’s speech was interrupted by continual applause as he recounted the hunt for Hussein. As searches and then the early capture of Hussein’s bodyguards and assistants increased, so did tips provided by the Iraqi people, but it was still a combination of technology, intelligence and dogged persistence that resulted in success, he said.
    In a November conversation with his wife, Russell received a message from someone back home who’d seen him on news coverage. The caller said he knew Russell was a praying man, and that God knew where Saddam was. So members of his unit starting praying. Days later, a teen boy came to say he knew where “important people were hiding.”
    Captures and arrests began. Following tips, the search narrowed to a sheep ranch outside Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. Repeated searching of the area proved nothing, but a kicking gesture by one of Hussein’s captured bodyguards brought attention to a rug covering a dirt patch and the underground door of Hussein’s hiding room.
    A flash-bang grenade was thrown into the room, and when the smoke cleared, Hussein’s weaponless hands could be seen. While he resisted, he was finally “roughed up” to remove him from the hole, Russell said. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939945/posts

  20. My burning question of the day is,will we ever find out which cbc reporter(s) were doing the spoon-feeding to the Libs?I think we need a short-list poll here at SDA,maybe a little contest to guess who it was.From watching all the media coverage,and cbc interviews and biased bashing,the list could be a long one.Wouldn’t put Delacourt out of the running for this either,as she is just VILE,and hateful,and never misses an opportunity to slag PMSH.

  21. DeCloet mentions the screwup. Who/which regime screwed Canadians? The Liberal Party of AdScam Chretien/Martin/Dion.
    DeCloet quote: “seller of nukes”. AECL is not, as DeCloet points out, not a “seller of nukes”, aka nuclear weapons. However, his use of “nukes” is unfortunate.
    Sell now. The uranium/nuclear industry is now a bull market. Sell into the bull market; and, get out.
    …-
    AECL served a purpose, now it’s time to sell it
    So there’s a minor problem with a little nuclear reactor in Eastern Ontario, and half a world away, a doctor must tell a man she can’t run a test to diagnose what’s wrong with the guy’s heart. A medical crisis erupts. Parliament is forced to pass emergency legislation to get the reactor restarted. It’s stunning – who knew such a thing could happen?
    People who’ve been reading the business pages, that’s who. The fiasco in Chalk River, Ont., is no surprise to anyone who has followed MDS, which distributes isotopes used in treating disease, or Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), which supplies them. Eleven years ago, the two companies said they’d join forces to build two new reactors, Maple 1 and 2. The Maples were meant to replace the ancient NRU reactor that produces half of the world’s medical isotopes.
    If they were operating today, there would have been no crisis. AECL chief executive officer Michael Burns might still have his job; he quit yesterday. And those who still think it’s a swell idea for taxpayers to back a bungling seller of nukes might still have a leg to stand on. They don’t. The case for privatization has never been stronger.
    The Maples were supposed to be running by 2000. We’re still waiting. They were supposed to cost $140-million. By early last year, the costs were some $400-million and AECL had to pay tens of millions to MDS in an arbitration settlement. Understand, please, that these are not monster nuclear generating plants. The Maples are small and simple – as much as any nuke can be called simple – designed to do only one task. If AECL can screw that up, what good is it? …-
    http://tinyurl.com/yqafm3 (g-m)

  23. Bl@kbird, you found this site . . .
    If your hoping to find a place to buy your CARBON INDULGENCES, I’ve found it….
    http www terrapass.com
    Interesting, I found this HongKong carbon trading stock market site . . . .
    http://www.carboncatalog.org/blog/
    I like it….Scam without Spam. = TG

  24. Probably old news to American readers, but maybe not to Canadians.
    America’s constitution produces a pure democracy we will never have
    This Christmas marks the 350th anniversary of the least-honoured genesis of American freedom, to be celebrated in the New York suburb of Queens. For only the fourth time in its history a fragile piece of paper called the Flushing Remonstrance will go on display.
    Written in 1657 by the English citizens of the Long Island village of Flushing, it asserted their right to freedom of conscience against the autocracy of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of their colony of New Netherland. It thus long predated the “self-evident truths” of Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence….

  25. Me No Dhimmi, I’ll see your Ursula Andress and raise you a Raquel Welch.
    Ahhhh, those were the days.

  26. Armed forces ‘superbug’ menaces UK
    The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant ‘superbug’ being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals.
    The intensified concern comes amid sharply rising infection rates in the US and fresh worries in Canada that the bug could be imported into its civilian healthcare system….
    The bacterium, Acinetobacter baumannii, first emerged as a ‘mystery infection’ afflicting US service personnel returning from the war in Iraq in 2003-04. It was described by a scientific journal specialising in hospital epidemiology as the ‘most important emerging hospital-acquired pathogen worldwide’. The journal added that it was potentially a ‘major threat to public health’ due to its ability to mutate rapidly and develop a resistance to all known drugs.

  27. Texas Canuck:
    Yeah, I was actually re-visiting Raquel on that same site — drop dead gorgeous of course, but Ursala remains my ultimate icon of feminine beauty; it still hurts looking at her!. You can find Brigit Bardot there too — how ordinary she looked in the very early pics; didn’t know this but her handler also handled Jane Fonda. Well, ya know, someone around here has got to do the research, what?

  28. Who says Islamists are misogynists? Consider their altruism in allowing the women to become shaheeds…while the men scurry into the tunnels to get back into Egypt.
    Hamas parades its first female commando and suicide units at huge 20th anniversary Gaza assembly
    In addition to the female commmandos, our military sources report Hamas has formed hundreds of suicide killers into a large unit for obstructing a major Israeli offensive against its missile-mortar offensive from Gaza. Its planners figure that if only one out of ten is successful, the Israeli advance will be seriously slowed….

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