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  6. US aircraft maker and defence supplier Boeing has revisited the original jeep’s winning formula in a stocky little bruiser of a car called the Phantom Badger.
    Like the MB, the Phantom Badger is compact – just 60 inches wide – and, with four-wheel steering, it is highly maneuverable. The setup gives the vehicle a turning circle of just 24ft – fully 10ft tighter than a Mini Cooper’s. Such agility is particularly valuable in urban environments, where the ability to make tight turns and slip through narrow alleys can change the outcome of a battle.
    Vital Stats
    Boeing Phantom Badger
    Gross vehicle weight: 7,850lbs
    Payload capacity: 3,356lbs
    Towing capacity: 4,000lbs
    Dimensions: 60in wide x 180in long
    Engine: 3-litre turbocharged V6, multi-fuel capable (diesel or JP-8)
    Drivetrain: Four-wheel drive with all-wheel steering
    Fuel consumption: 21mpg
    Cruising range: Approx. 450mi
    And like the original jeep, which employed a version of the Go Devil L-head engine from Willys’ civilian Americar line, the Phantom Badger makes use of the 3-litre turbo-diesel V6 from the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The engine – which can run on JP-8 jet fuel as well as diesel – produces 240 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque, sufficient to enable the four-wheel-drive Badger to reach a breezy 80mph on paved surfaces.
    In designing the Phantom Badger, amid the usual military concerns for battlefield capability and occupant protection, Boeing remained conscious of such factors as mechanical simplicity, global parts availability and field serviceability. So the vehicle is light on expensive futuristic technology, and heavy on proven, commercially available hardware. It embodies, says Boeing spokesman Garrett Kasper, “the best of what’s out there today – tires, lug nuts, seatbelts, you name it.”
    http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140422-phantom-badger-reports-for-duty

  8. Princeton study concludes US republic is fully usurped by elites and special insider interests – the US is an oligarchy (not unlike Russia) in which democracy no longer works for majoritaian policy out comes – they now have a form of biased pluralism where only special interest and political/economic elites make public policy to further their interests
    Check it out –
    http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

  9. @north of 60: “… the original jeep’s winning formula…”. Ha, Ha, Ha. Hilarious.
    At almost 4 tons in weight, comparison to the original Jeep of WWII is a stretch. But that’s not all. The original was easy to maintain and probably could run on kerosene … or maybe not but the point remains. It was easy to maintain and could be kept going under severe conditions. A “3-litre turbocharged V6” loaded with electronic sensors and 4 wheel turning capability .. maybe not so much.
    I don’t know if this is a good vehicle for the military or not but comparing it to the original military Jeep is just propaganda.

  10. In the crazy world of Ontario politics a spokesperson for the worst government in the history of the province, is telling us we are all better of than we were 11 years ago. This is either a cruel joke or another campaign lie like the ones we’ve endured over the entire McGuinty reign. The unmitigated gall is beyond anything we could ever imagine.

  12. Time for Harper to scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. What a disaster this has been.
    A bunch of corrupt business owners gaming the system, firing Canadians to hire foreigners at Third World wages. There is no need for this program at all. In fact Canada has the world’s highest per capita immigration of any industrialized country. A quarter of a million people each year is too much and this is not counting the temporary foreign workers. There is no dramatic labour shortage in Canada but it is something corrupt business owners like to say to bring more people from the Third World and drive down wages.

  13. National Socialism vs Mohammed.
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    “France clamps down on radicalisation of would-be Syria jihadis
    Foreign minister Laurent Fabius targets young with package of measures amid fears French nationals were hostages’ captors”
    “Urgent measures to prevent young people from going to wage jihad in Syria are to be unveiled by the French government on Wednesday amid fears that its nationals were among the captors of four French hostages.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/france-clamps-down-radicalisation-syria-jihadis
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    “Spanish newspaper: Europe got Muslims for Jews”
    “I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz.
    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts

  14. “A bad idea is like a giant pile of excrement.
    You can use a stick to shape it into something that looks like a cake.
    But it’s not cake.
    You can add icing. And sprinkles. And stick a sparkler in it and set it to sparkling … but it’s not cake.
    It’s never gonna be cake and if somebody tries to make you eat it, you’re going to be justifiably annoyed. Outraged even.
    It’s certainly not going to pass the smell test.
    Which brings us to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program”
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/04/20140421-074943.html

  15. “The incredible story of how white supremists nearly took over the tiny town of Leith, North Dakota”
    “Nichols and Walker flew to North Dakota after reading a New York Times article about the war brewing in Leith between the town residents and a man named Craig Cobb, who was inviting white supremacists from around the country to stay on his swastika flag-adorned properties.”
    “Cobb was trying to take over and set up his own “Pioneer Little Europe,” as his supporters dubbed it.
    Tensions came to a head on September 22nd, when Cobb held a rally in town with Jeff Schoep, the leader of the National Socialist Movement.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/21/the-incredible-story-of-how-white-supremists-nearly-took-over-the-tiny-town-of-leith-north-dakota/
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    “Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism”
    “On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver “der echte Sozialismus”: real socialism.
    Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk.
    So total is the cultural victory of the modern Left that the merely to recount this fact is jarring.”
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100260720/whenever-you-mention-fascisms-socialist-roots-left-wingers-become-incandescent-why/

  16. There goes Mulcair’s wish that he next election will be about the changes to Elections Canada.
    After non-stop coverage and every CBC talking head spouting fire and brimstone about “anti-democratic” changes to the Elections Act, we get this poll of the people who actually matter, the voters.
    http://www.angusreidglobal.com/polls/48956/conservatives-lead-liberals-ndp-among-both-eligible-and-likely-voters-in-april/
    This is very surprising considering that the Left and the Liberal media had everyone on their side; the elites, the poor, the natives and the “enlightened” media. They should have been able to bury the Conservatives with this issue. The Conservative maintained (and increased) their voter support and all they have on their side are blogs like SDA, Sun News and ,you know, the facts.

  17. Vive L’arper Bleu.
    “Prime Minister Stephen Harper will travel to Quebec to meet the province’s new Premier on Thursday, highlighting the impact of Philippe Couillard’s victory on relations with Ottawa, federal and provincial sources said.”
    …-
    “I congratulated [Mr. Couillard] and noted that Quebeckers have rejected having another referendum. They want a government that is focused on the economy and job creation. Those are our priorities as well, and we look forward to working with this new premier,” Mr. Harper said in the House on April 8.
    The pair know one another. In 2010, Mr. Harper appointed Mr. Couillard as a member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pm-to-meet-new-quebec-premier-in-courtesy-call/article18088064/?cmpid=rss1&google_editors_picks=true

  19. Harpernomics Is Number One (#1).
    Liberal Justine’s promise = tax’n’spend.
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    “Trudeau promises new deal for middle class Canadians”
    (G-M)
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    “Canada’s middle class richest in study of big nations”
    “Canada’s middle class appears to be the richest in a new study of incomes in several big countries.
    The in-depth report published today in The New York Times, which looks at about 20 nations, indicates that Canadians have bumped Americans out of the top spot they have long held.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/canadas-middle-class-now-worlds-richest-study-suggests/article18090490/

  20. According to a New York Times report, the rich in the US are getting richer, but the poor and middle classes are falling behind some of their Western peers.
    “Middle-class incomes in Canada – substantially behind in 2000 – now appear to be higher than in the United States,” David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy write. “The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?rref=upshot&_r=0

  21. Obama will burn more than 35,000 gallons of fuel on Earth Day, emitting 375 TONS of carbon dioxide
    President took Marine One chopper to Andrews Air Force Base and will fly to Washington state and Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday
    ‘Earth Day is about taking action,’ the White House declared shortly after takeoff
    Air Force One consumes 5 gallons of jet fuel for every mile it flies
    The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that burning the fuel emits 21.1 pounds of CO2 per gallon
    Total presidential fuel consumption for Earth Day, not including automobile motorcades, is an estimated 35,609 gallons
    President Barack Obama is marking the 44th Earth Day with a carbon-emitting extravaganza, spending more than 15 hours on Air Force One and 15 minutes aboard the Marine One helicopter.
    Not including his motorcades in Oso, Washington, the site of a recent devastating mudslide, his trip will consume an estimated 35,565 gallons of fuel.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2610431/Obama-burn-35-000-gallons-fuel-Earth-Day-emitting-375-TONS-carbon-dioxide.html

  22. Maurice Strong*: Misanthropist.
    “Misanthropy is the general hatred, distrust or disdain of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope, or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings.” (bing)
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    “The Pacific’s Salmon Are Back — Thank Human Ingenuity”
    “Which is precisely why those demanding restraints on carbon emissions and restrictions on fisheries hate mariculture. They hate it for the same reason those demanding constraints in the name of allegedly limited energy resources hate nuclear power. They hate it because it solves a problem they need unsolved.
    The ultimate question comes down to this: Are humans creators or destroyers? If it is accepted that we are simply agents of destruction, consuming or ruining resources that existed before we came, then it follows that human activities, numbers, and liberties must be severely constrained and that someone must be empowered to do the constraining.
    On the other hand, if it is understood that humanity is fundamentally a creative force, that we invent resources and improve the world — unleashing abundance, lighting the night, ridding continents of pestilence, and bringing barren oceans to life — then it becomes clear that the essential mission of government is not to limit liberty, but to defend it at all costs.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376258/pacifics-salmon-are-back-thank-human-ingenuity-robert-zubrin/page/0/1
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    *Mao Stlong:
    “Isn’t it the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
    http://www.aim.org/wls/industrialized-civilization-must-collapse/

  23. Happy Iceberg Day.
    Friend. Or. Foe?
    H/T AGW Spring North Descends Into Winter Darkness South.
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    “Fearing the Icefall: On Everest, dangers are clear”
    “On Everest, everybody knows that the Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations, since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Khumbu Icefall in 1921, insisting it was impossible to pass.
    It is a river of ice, a kilometer (half mile) or so of constantly shifting glacier punctuated by deep crevasses and overhanging immensities of ice that can be as large as 10-story buildings. It can move two meters (six feet) in just one day. Crossing it can take 12 hours.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/fearing-the-icefall-on-everest-dangers-are-clear/2014/04/22/2a29c936-ca25-11e3-b81a-6fff56bc591e_story.html
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    “WATCH: Iceberg 6 times the size of Manhattan on the move in Antarctic”
    “As the southern hemisphere heads into winter, it will be harder to track B31, as the south pole will remain in relative darkness.”
    http://globalnews.ca/news/1284243/watch-iceberg-six-times-of-manhattan-on-the-move-in-antarctic/

  24. Happy Nuclear Day.
    Japan mugged by LNG reality.
    “Japan has relied heavily on LNG in thermal coal to power its industries since Fukushima, importing 76bcm last year. This has been ruinously expensive.”
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    “Shinzo Abe, Japan’s premier, announced last week that his country will reopen many of its 48 nuclear reactors once cleared by safety regulators, despite the Fukushima disaster in 2011. “This could have a huge effect.
    Japan is the world’s largest importer of LNG,” said Prof Alan Riley, from City University.
    Japan has relied heavily on LNG in thermal coal to power its industries since Fukushima, importing 76bcm last year. This has been ruinously expensive. It has also soaked up the world’s supply of LNG and driven up the price in Asia to at least four times US levels.
    Two reactors in western Japan — the safest area — could be open within six months or less. A further 29 may follow in stages.
    Reactor start-ups could free up 34bcm in global supply, allowing it to be re-routed to Europe.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10781229/Europe-braces-for-gas-showdown-with-Russia-helped-by-Japans-nuclear-restart.html

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