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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, Bjork takes apart her TV and expounds delightedly on its spooky workings. Have a pen and notepad ready.
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  3. I saw an article on Stuxnet and the thing just astounds me. From the hiding to the transfer,
    the selectivity of computers invaded and they haven’t figured out what goes bang but they are pretty sure something is going to go bang.
    It didn’t find one Microsoft entry point, it found four. Whoever did it they are good it is a big file and loaded as the menu of a USB was displayed but undetected.

  7. C_Miner ,
    Linked that about 10 minutes ago , guess it’s in limbo for awhile . I really do hope it’s parody but I doubt it .

  11. It isn’t, Black Mamba. Watch it all the way to the end to see who made it – it’s that 10:10 organization, or whatever it’s called – and click the info-arrow under the video for details on the organization.
    It’s meant to be funny, I suppose, but considering all the direct action weenies who support the message, it’s just profoundly cynical and threatening. Kinda eerie.

  12. The ghoulish Kielburger brothers held something called We Day 2010 in a packed Air Canada Centre in Toronto today. From their web site:
    A commitment to taking local and global action has always been a part of schools’ involvement in We Day. While the elements of the year-long program have not changed, we want to put this long-term commitment front and centre.
    Free The Children’s We Schools in Action program inspires a generation to care about social justice and provides the practical tools needed to turn that inspiration into action. Launched by the energy and message of We Day, We Schools puts students at the forefront of active global citizenship by educating them on social issues and action planning, developing leadership skills, and engaging them in world-changing action.
    We really have to take back control of our education system.

  13. Profoundly vile doesn’t even scratch the surface . This needs to go viral , if it isn’t already . The regulations they want to impose and the tax revenue to be realized in this scam will never let these freaks admit defeat .

  14. And it was only just recently that Gene of Greenpeace was threatening that they know who we are, and know where we live.
    But to quote Kate: Maybe. But I’ll wager we have more ammo.

  15. The day’s called From Me to We and teachers accompany their kids to it.
    Boy, these Kielburger brothers are real operators, aren’t they? I know some kids who went to college with them (Trinity, U. of T.) and they weren’t impressed by the Freres Keilburger. Life as one big bowl of loonies and toonies.
    Ka-ching, ka-ching.

  16. Sorry Bill D, yours was awaiting moderation as I posted mine. All credit to you, I just like the wattsupwiththat comments. Stunned disbelief describes the general take.
    Sorry Black Mamba, it appears to be legit. They are only doing what is best for us, after all. And there are always inconvenient disbelievers who have to be dealt with somehow. Remember the “we know where you live” from a Greenpeace posting many months ago? The more rabid followers really see nothing wrong with ads like this because they see humans as a cancer on the earth. Exposure of those same people is the best “weapon” in the arsenal of those of us who know that the climate and ecology has always changed over time, and always will change. Ice ages come and go, saber-tooths evolve and become extinct because they’re too specialized (3 times now, last I’ve heard). Humans are passengers, not drivers, on Earth. I guess that’s hard for the egos of some.

  23. The thing about the Left is that just about anything can bring out their inner fascism. Case in point: today’s Mississauga News has on its cover a story about little kids hectoring adults on the evils of idling one’s car.
    [they] were out early Wednesday, with two other members of their school’s Eco Club . . . to educate drivers on the health effects and environmental damage caused by idling.
    The kids of course are led on by some group called Dads Against Dirty Air. The kids are cute but the last people I need to hear from on environmental responsibility are those from the most consumptive generation.
    Get rid of your iPod, your laptop, your expensive clothes, your cell phone, etc. and then we can talk. Until then, shaddap!

  26. Scottish-based oil company Cairn Energy announced this morning that it has found promising deposits of oil off the coast of Greenland.
    “We have developed a good dialogue with the Canadian government,” Mr. Kleist said. “Immediately after the first announcement by the Environmental Minister I did contact him, and wrote him a letter, and afterwards we had negotiations with government representatives … so what started as a conflict between us and Canada, turned out to be very fruitful co-operation.”
    ….But Greenlanders tend to have a deep distrust of environmentalists and especially of Greenpeace, which supported the European Union ban on seal-hunting products, seen here as a cruel Western blow to a main traditional source of Inuit income. Mr. Kleist, who is far more diplomatic about such matters than his parliamentary colleagues, nevertheless has nothing good to say about environmentalists.
    “I don’t understand these Europeans. I mean, why don’t they worry about their own stuff back home?” he said. “In the first place, you might have noticed that the last actions carried out by Greenpeace were not very popular in Greenland, and everybody who has a little bit of insight into what is going on around the world thinks that what Greenpeace is doing these days is purely a question of promoting the organization itself. … We are capable of taking care of the environment ourselves.”

  31. If you think Sean Bruyea, Pat Stogran and fellow injured vets are having a bad day, take a moment to pause and think about how members of the Witness Protection Program feel about bureaucrats who care nothing of privacy and confidentiality in the months prior to an election. ( http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/pw-pt/page4.html ) Canada calls it the Department of Justice, for short, but not for long.

  32. From the Dead Wrong department:
    Globe and Mail, Thursday, Sept. 30.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/all-for-one-and-one-for-all/article1733408/
    Charles Taylor, professor at McGill, trots out the old bromides of collectivism:
    “Solidarity is essential in democratic societies; otherwise, they fall apart …”
    “The great task is … to find a way of recreating our political ethic around the kernel of human rights, equality, non-discrimination and democracy.”
    “… increasing individualism – a focus on one’s own ambitions and economic prosperity – in many countries poses a stubborn obstacle to realising this vision. Indeed, the utter lack of a sense of solidarity among so many people – horrifyingly evident in the U. S. health-care debate – is undermining the very basis of what a modern democratic society is.”
    First of all, a democratic society is one in which the populace elects a government through a free and fair election – and nothing more. The leftists are always trying to flog their activism as somehow “expanding” democracy. What most of them want is to expand it out of existence by seizing power.
    A society based on individualism is the most likely to find whatever “solidarity” is needed for stability. A collectivist society, one based on “robbing Peter to pay Paul” and in which everbody wants to be Paul, is a society of pressure group warfare that will ultimately fall apart. We’re seeing this in Greece, France, the U. K. and other European nations, with the strikes to protest the inevitable “austerity measures” that must be implemented to prevent governments from spending themselves and their citizens into oblivion.
    There is nothing that disrupts societal harmony more than handing out government money to favoured groups through politicized policies like “multiculturalism”.
    Genuine human rights – that is, the rights of freedom of expression, of the press, of conscience and religion, of association – are individual rights. They are the only possible basis for the kind of society that rational human beings wish to live in. They are the only possible basis for a society in which people can attain economic prosperity. They are the only possible basis for a society in which people can genuinely hope for a better future.

  33. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/middleeast/30worm.html?no_interstitial
    RE: Stuxnet
    Saw this this afternoon. Leave it to the computer geeks to leave behind and Easter Egg eh?
    I don’t think anything will violently explode. I would think their engineers would detect that something is wrong during test runs of their turbines.
    I’m really curious as to how widespread the damage is. I must admit the attack is awesomely cool as I think that cyberpunk is awesomely cool 😀
    Though like I said, it’ll be less awesomely cool when WE get hit by a massive cyberattack or EMP. I read or saw somewhere a senator talking about how Iran is test firing missiles that detonate at the apogee of their flightpath which he suspects is to carry an EMP payload. So it’s coming.

  34. stuxnet?
    looks like the Iranians are on the right track to getting a nuke given they got such attention.
    when that happens usually it’s just a matter of time.
    too bad for the americnuts they had to put the shah in power instead of Iran becoming a democracy like India or something.
    oh, and I wonder, did the blueprints they got via Project Merlin (google it) also acted as a blueprint for the cyber attack? nah, 2 different technologies.

  37. Re Bjork, just as when you’re reading a children’s book, look past the cuteness and find the wisdom: “You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.”

  39. I was just waiting for her to touch a capacitor . . . unless she did that in rehearsal and that explains the hair.

  40. A poll for the fisking at G&M, related to the Bon Homme Macleans non-story.
    _http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/macleans-forces-tory-mps-into-separatist-trap/article1737199/

  41. That was an incredible demonstration of how a TV “really” works by Bjork!!!!
    I’ve been inspired to quit my career and be a TV repairman. Thanks EBD!
    PS: Michael Ignatieff for “President Of The World”. Nanu Nanu.

  44. Texas Canuck @6:46 – it gets better:
    “That use of the word “Myrtus” — which can be read as an allusion to Esther — to name a file inside the code is one of several murky clues that have emerged as computer experts try to trace the origin and purpose of the rogue Stuxnet program… the Book of Esther… (is)the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/world/middleeast/30worm.html?_r=1

  46. Reader’s Poll Alert: today’s Halifax Comical-Herald is asking; “Would you like to see the end of Alberta’s oilsands?”

  47. The disgusting “10:10” climate campaign video discussed earlier in the thread has been pulled, and it appears the organization is apparently going after even independent (non-YouTube) sites.
    There’s been constant cat-and-mouse re-uploading all over the place; this URL still works for the time being — SDA Readers (and everyone else) should watch it while it’s still available; if (when) it doesn’t work anymore, scroll down to newer comments in this dedicated thread at WUWT. Those who know how should save a copy as well.
    Again, you’ve got to see it to believe it. Truly, truly creepy piece of work from the climate moonbats.

  48. The book, “From Me to We” is in all kinds of classrooms, probably promoted and paid for by the boards.
    Except for Kim Phuc (the napalmed child, who’s now a Canadian and a Christian, who promotes forgiveness), I wouldn’t give a toss for the others the Kielbergers promote in this book: Richard Gere, Jane Goodall, Queen Noor, Desmond Tutu, and Oprah Winfrey.
    God help our kids–and the rest of us, who are very much affected by the mulititude of lies they’re regulary fed, day in and day out, year in and year out. (I like Bjork’s warning about lying poets: is David Suzuki a poet?)

  49. *
    kate… an article from maple ridge news that needs its
    headline fixed… “Long-gun and painful memories”
    and here’s the money quote… referring to the rifle her
    husband leaned up against the marital bed.
    “With no registry, they didn’t know about it.”
    yeah, you dumb bunny… maybe because you
    “forgot” to tell them.
    *

  50. I’ve tried to watch the 10:10 video but can’t. If anyone here can provide a version that will play, I’d appreciate it.
    God help us.

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