Hotel Canada can also be used as a launching pad:
“A member of the ‘Toronto 18’ terror plot has died fighting in Syria, the Star has confirmed.”
The late Ali Mohamed Dirie had been sentenced to seven years for his part in the 2009 plot.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s tips music, from 1967, Prime Mates (L to R: Keith, Joanne, Harold, Ian, and Scott) serve up a dose of Hot Tamales. It’s a bit repetitive, but they’re doing the best they can.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Drone video over Niagara Falls.
I’m Not Jumping Through Hoops for 10 Years
Ahhh…the consequences of requiring 10 years of education before you let your younger generations actually start working. I love the education bubble.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
The List of Deceased Solar Companies.
h/t Maz2
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starving The Poor”
Rice is the major dietary staple for almost half of humanity, but white rice grains lack vitamin A. Research scientists Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer and their teams developed a rice variety whose grains accumulate β-carotene. It took them, in collaboration with IRRI, 25 years to develop and test varieties that express sufficient quantities of the precursor that a few ounces of cooked rice can provide enough β-carotene to eliminate the morbidity and mortality of vitamin A deficiency.‡ It took time, as well, to obtain the right to distribute Golden Rice seeds, which contain patented molecular constructs, free of charge to resource-poor farmers.
The rice has been ready for farmers to use since the turn of the 21st century, yet it is still not available to them. Escalating requirements for testing have stalled its release for more than a decade. IRRI and PhilRice continue to patiently conduct the required field tests with Golden Rice, despite the fact that these tests are driven by fears of “potential” hazards, with no evidence of actual hazards. Introduced into commercial production over 17 years ago, GM crops have had an exemplary safety record. And precisely because they benefit farmers, the environment, and consumers, GM crops have been adopted faster than any other agricultural advance in the history of humanity.
An Impending Stab to the Heart
Next month, the hand of a dead physicist may well shake the world. In October, the 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought will be announced, and this Prize to Remember will be awarded at the end of the year in Strasbourg, France. One nominee for the prize is Edward Snowden, in a clear slap at Barack Obama. Another is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a just-as-merciless slap at Vladimir Putin. If one or the other prevails, the figurative first rounds may have been fired in Cold War II.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off.“
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What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University: Shut up, they argued.
h/t allan s
Oh Oh.
In the last hour, @Reince, (Reince Priebus) Chairman, Republican National Committee, has posted 23 tweets.
Previous to that, the last tweet was 9 hours ago. #TheOldGOP #JumpingOnCruzBandWagon
Desperate times
Al “Internet” Gore – who has made millions on global warming hysteria – said the North Pole could be “ice-free by 2013.” Well, it’s 2013… and the Arctic has grown by 60 percent. That’s more than half the size of Europe.
Former vice president Al Gore…called for making climate change “denial” a taboo in society.
Reader Tips
Tonight, we learn how to safely and naturally de-worm our chickens. It’s relatively easy, and our chickens will love us for it.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
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In Australia, where it’s already Wednesday, David Suzuki is yesterday:
(He) is not an elder or a sage of science. He is an environmental extremist, a relic of the 1970s. He may not wear the bandana and John Lennon glasses of his youth but inside still beats the heart of an anti-capitalist hippy.
A piece of footage doing the rounds of social media this week shows a young Suzuki in 1972 sitting cross legged on the ground, describing humans as “maggots” that “defecate all over the environment”.
Almost half a century later, nothing much has changed.
It’s true. Maybe Canadian taxpayers should chip in to send the Socrates of the North abroad more often:
Suzuki’s appearance on the ABC flagship program Q&A spelled the death of any credibility left in the fag end of the climate alarm movement.
Read Miranda Devine’s “David Suzuki drives me crazy” here, and more of her Daily Telegraph columns (she also writes for the Herald Sun) here.
For Your Listening Pleasure
Michelle Obama, Call Your Office
In Germany, it looks like the Radical Leftists in the Green Party went one step too far:
In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to tweak Americans’ diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated “Veggie Day” each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a “shitstorm.”
At her party’s final campaign rally on Saturday, Merkel joined in, slamming the Green proposal.
“You will never hear from the Christian Democratic Union party when you should eat meat and when you shouldn’t,” Merkel said to loud applause from her supporters and campaign workers in the Tempodrom theater.
“I grew up in a Christian house. We didn’t eat meat on Fridays. I think every restaurant should have a vegetarian dish, but we are a party confident people can manage their own lives,” the German prime minister added. “We are confident people will live a reasonable life and we don’t want to deprive them of this opportunity.”
#StandWithCruz
On CSPAN
YNoKyoto
Here, we show how the projections for temperature and sea level rise set out in the fourth Assessment Report in 2007 compare with actual measurements. We can see that global average temperatures have not accelerated at the rate predicted in some scenarios.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
It turns out that people are not always rational. They don’t always do what’s in their own best interests, even when the benefits are completely clear to a development economist.
Or to put it another way – they’re not poor because they’re poor. They’re poor because they’re embedded in a culture of stupid.
h/t Bob
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Heads will roll: Vancouver Sun accidentally republishes piece by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.