“When an injured soldier leaves the battlefield, they do so quickly and without warning. Sometimes, all they have with them are just the clothes on their back. It is now that they are at their most vulnerable. This program alleviates some of this inconvenience by contributing “quality of life” items to the soldier.
If you’d like to help them out, click the link.
Toronto and Dubai: Emirates airline is fighting attempts by a Canadian government ministry to limit both its and Etihad’s access to the country, despite Canada’s official “open skies” policy.
Under the policy, foreign carriers are supposed to be actively encouraged to begin services to Canadian destinations. Transport Canada, the federal ministry responsible for enforcing the policy, is actively trying to prevent both UAE airlines from gaining more access to the Canadian market.
Currently, Emirates and Etihad services are limited to a combined six flights a week from the UAE to Toronto. In the autumn, Emirates moved from a Boeing 777 aircraft to an Airbus A380 superjumbo to accommodate greater passenger loads.
Both UAE carriers want to increase the number of flights weekly and add other destinations, including the oil-industry centre of Calgary and Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics in February.
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Despite the airlines’ efforts and the support of political leaders, officials at Transport Canada are discouraging the increase in services… [Their objections include] suggesting that the rapid expansion and success of Arabian Gulf carriers, enabled by the backing of various GCC governments, is leading to “unhealthy competition and irrational commercial behaviour”.
h/t Glen
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”*
On Monday, the Indian government […] bluntly refused to sign any binding agreements on climate change with the United States. India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh went about personally distributing copies of his exchange with Clinton to members of the press as she stood by silently.
Via Tim Blair, who has more.
No British mystery is complete without a Mole.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Allegro from George Frideric Handel‘s Concerto Grosso #5 in D Minor, HWV 316, performed by the Vokalensemble NovoCanto Tiroler Barockinstrumentalisten at the Jesuitenkirche in Austria in 2004 (3:02).
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Dead fish found stuck on boat, autopsy scheduled.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and it’s “a cultural thing that’s come from back home.”
A LONDON woman has been warned that she is at risk of being murdered after a man had acid poured down his throat by a gang in an apparent “honour crime”.
The young married Muslim woman is alleged to have had an affair with the victim, a 24-year-old Danish Asian. He was stabbed twice in the back and beaten with bricks, before acid was poured all over him and forced down his throat.
He was blinded and his tongue destroyed in the attack, and he is on life support in hospital with burns to 90 per cent of his body. Seven people have since been arrested.
The woman and the victim both live in east London’s Asian community, and their relationship is believed to have angered her family by bringing dishonour upon them.
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Tonight, for your delectation, here is the inimitable Mr. Steven Wright
performing my favourite version of his classic Comedy Shtick ¤ (6:24).
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In 1976, Yaacov Ben Moshe was more of a progressive liberal than he is today.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman – “…this bill’s goal of reducing U.S. carbon emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 is nowhere near what science tells us we need to mitigate climate change. But it also contains significant provisions to prevent new buildings from becoming energy hogs, to make our appliances the most energy efficient in the world and to help preserve forests in places like the Amazon.”
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s house.
h/t
Meet Aya Ali al-Mulla , the newly crowned Miss Moral Beauty.
Or save yourself the trouble, and view the artist’s rendition.
(h/t Drained Brain)
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
A Beginner’s Guide To Crossing Cultures – “There is a recognition that all cultures are equal and should be respected. This is a worthy goal. “
Associated Press – “Authorities said Thursday that four boys ages 9 to 14 took turns raping an 8-year-old girl behind a shed for more than 10 minutes in what Phoenix police are calling one of the most horrific cases they’ve ever seen. […] Hill cited the family’s background as the reason the family shunned the girl. All five children are refugees from the West African nation of Liberia.”
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Billy Stewart and
the boys performing Summertime in 1966 (4:51).
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Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur,” Obama told ABC News.
…now that he’s recalibrated the unfortunate post-racial business and diagnosed America’s sore throat. (For a guy who’s made a career of apologizing to the whole world, one would think a simple “I’m sorry” would come easy.)
If an individual must surrender their religious freedom when acting on “behalf of government”…
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission agrees with that decision saying the commissioners are appointed to perform civil marriages and when they are acting on behalf of the government have an obligation to carry out that duty.
Why aren’t they paying his legal costs?
It all begins innocently insipidly enough….
“Let’s realize we need to deal with crime from an evidence based approach and not a ‘gut feeling’.”
Today’s criminal justice reading pleasure – a Bob Tarantino smackdown.
The Fraser Institute is giving away $10,000 in cash and electronics prizes in its 2009 Student Video Contest. The topic is: What is the appropriate role of government in the economy?
Full contest details can be found at: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/videocontest
A still smoldering France surrenders to the French;
Fired workers at a bankrupt French auto-parts supplier won severance pay averaging 28,500 euros ($40,500) after threatening to blow up their factory …..
Via Osumashi Kinyobe , a Washington Post map details the death camps of North Korea.
Some day politicians will line up to wring their hands to declare “if only they had known”. Again.