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  2. Tired of Regional Critics, Venezuela Looks to Russia and China https://nyti.ms/2E0MepY
    Gravitating to new and potentially dangerous alliances, kindred spirits, so to speak. It will be interesting to see how Trump reacts.

  3. AGW Kills.
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    “From ‘angry summer’ to ‘weird winter’: 2017 was riddled with extreme weather
    Amanda McKenzie” (grauniad)
    “Unusually low temperatures recorded as Arctic cold grips Canada, US” (dawn)
    “A Christmas snowstorm set multiple records in Pennsylvania, where residents in the City of Erie are buried under 5 feet (152 cm) of snow.
    The National Weather Service says a winter snowstorm that began midnight on Christmas Day had dropped 138 cm (54 inches) of snow by late Tuesday morning, shattering the previous two-day state record of 112 cm (44 inches) set in 1958.” (weathernet)
    “Cold Weather Wave Is Lasting Longer Than Usual: Environment Canada
    Usually cold weather moves on after a couple days.” (huffpo)
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    “Man, 77, dies of hypothermia after car crash in Hamilton”
    “Hamilton police say a 77-year-old man has died from hypothermia after a single-vehicle crash.”
    “Police say the man managed to get out of the vehicle on his own, but was found dead a short distance from his car.”
    http://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/12/27/man-77-dies-hypothermia-after-car-crash-hamilton/

  6. “The Top 10 Most Evil U.N. Actions of 2017”
    “10. Denied Venezuelan Hunger: In the first-ever U.N. visit to Venezuela, Alfred de Zayas, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Cuban-backed “Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order,” posted propaganda photos to deny mass hunger caused by the regime’s failed policies.
    After UN Watch exposed the sick lie—in truth, Venezuelan hospitals are filled with starving children—the U.N. official was pressured into deleting his blog post and tweet.”
    https://www.unwatch.org/top-10-evil-u-n-actions-2017/
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    “Trump Administration Withdraws from UNESCO, Citing Anti-Israel Bias” (breitbart)

  9. This is a catastrophe, and yet Ontario Liberals refuse to acknowledge it. (Federal Liberals with their upcoming CO2 tax are just as bad!) Voters should be rounding up tar and feathers for the perpetrators of this fiasco.

  10. maz2 wrote:
    “Cold Weather Wave Is Lasting Longer Than Usual: Environment Canada
    Usually cold weather moves on after a couple days.” (huffpo)
    Do these people even live in Canada? I think most of us who live in the Prairies can remember cold snaps that last weeks usually the result of a high pressure area that doesn’t move. Bill Matheson, Edmonton’s legendary weatherman, used to call these “The most dreaded of all meteorological phenomena: THE SIBERIAN HIGH”.
    Here is a blog post from one year ago describing Edmonton’s epic cold snap in 1969.
    http://edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.ca/2017/01/it-was-winter-of-69.html
    Tomorrow also marks the 48-year anniversary of Edmonton’s historic deepfreeze, which started on January 7th, 1969, and which lasted all the way to February 1st. By the end of it Edmonton Blatchford had recorded 26 straight days where the daytime high temperature did not break -21°C.

  12. Does anyone know the outcome of the trial for the Quebec Mosque shooter, Alexandre Bissonette. This story seems to have completely disappeared from the news. I check every once in a while to see if the case has gone to court — at this point, there is no mention at all. Has he been tried? Has he been sent to jail? Did he have any explanation for his actions? Any hint of accomplices? There is much that we do not know about this story. If it has been deliberately buried, there has to be a reason.

  13. Yes, it was interesting. Old Believers were persecuted for centuries. The taiga is vast and easy to hide in if you can survive the elements. Small groups of the White Army existed for many years in the Siberian forests after the civil war ended.

  14. His trial date was supposed to be set at a hearing 11 Dec, with the defendant having already waived a preliminary hearing.
    I also note he wasn’t charged with any terrorism related offenses.
    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/02/quebec-city-mosque-shooting-suspect-to-go-straight-to-trial-crown-says.html
    BTW, google his name and let the unbiased magic begin with hints of, you guessed it, a Donald Trump connection.
    Are these maroons so bereft of ideas that attack dog tactics are all they have? If the economy cooperates, Trump should crush them in 2018.

  15. I lived in Edmonton during that deep freeze. What the blog post doesn’t mention is that it rained most of the day and into the night on January 6. We woke up to a thick coating of ice that covered everything. Took forever to get car doors open and to clear windshields. I’d say the ice was an inch thick but I’m probably afflicted with “up hill both ways” syndrome at my age.
    The roads, of course, were like glass so driving was quite an adventure. I lived in the deep south (1969), of Edmonton and I curled in a twice a week league in St. Albert. About a half hour drive on dry roads with moderate traffic. Fun times for a young guy with bias ply summer tires on his car.
    I mentioned “up hill both ways”. My memory of the timeline was 39 days, obviously the hill has gotten steeper over the years. 10 years from now it will be 49 days.

  16. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    “Trudeau to Lay Out Predictable Timelines for Pipeline Reviews” (blmbug)
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    “The most unusually cold air on Earth is parked over Canada and the US right now” (mashable)
    “Sask. trapped under extreme cold warnings” (cjme)
    “UK weather: More snow and temperatures below -13C on the way amid anger after hundreds of air passengers stranded overnight”
    (telegraph)
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    “Frigid temperatures smash 57-year-old record in Peel Region”
    “… Peel Region experienced the coldest Dec. 28 temperatures last night since Environment Canada began tracking stats for the area at Pearson Airport in 1937.
    The coldest ever recorded on Dec. 28 was -18.9 C in 1960, and Thursday’s overnight temperatures hit a record breaking -22.5 C.”
    https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news-story/8026813-frigid-temperatures-smash-57-year-old-record-in-peel-region/

  17. I remembered it as 30 days as I knew it lasted for about a month. I think he does mention somewhere in another post that it had been warmer than average before the cold snap.
    When it gets cold in December I always tell newcomers to Edmonton not to worry because it will rain in January. I would say that I have been right about 9 years out of 10.

  18. Mohammed the cannibal’s Feast of Blood and …
    Mohammed’s cannibals, the enemy within our gates.
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    “Kabul Explosion: Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Shiite Centre Bombing That Killed Dozens” (huffpo)
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    “UK: Going about Our “Normal” Lives?”
    “One of the most striking images from the night of the London Borough Market terror attack was of drinkers being marched out of the Market under police escort with their hands on their heads. The British public at that point looked not like stoical, pugnacious heroes, but like a defeated army being marched into captivity.
    Contrary to all our public statements, we have become terrorised, just as the terrorists want.
    It is a glimpse into the soul of a city; and like all such ugly glimpses, we will turn away from looking at it, rather than considering it and wondering what it truly suggests.”
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11567/britain-terrorism-normal-lives

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