I wouldn’t normally link to the YouTube channel that tonight’s video is on – it’s whacko conspiracy theory central – but it’s the only place I could find footage of a particular musical performance on BBC that is nothing less than extraordinary.
It’s the future of music. If it’s not to your taste, go here.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
“Frankly, Wickenburg is a total loss…“
Baird To Resign From Cabinet
According to CBC sources.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
The head of the United Nations inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas announced on Monday that he was stepping down.
Canadian international law professor William Schabas sent a letter to the UN commission, citing Israeli allegations of bias over consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Reuters reported.
Via UN Watch with the rest of the story.
Why did William Schabas finally step down as chair of the UN inquiry on Gaza?
The latest revelation that he was paid by the PLO for legal advice in 2012 was the last straw, but the decision came in wake of a sustained campaign by UN Watch starting from the day of his appointment, which included videos of Schabas calling for the indictment of Israeli leaders, a formal UN Watch legal brief demanding his recusal that was submitted to the UN in an official filing, and UN Watch op-eds urging legal scholars to speak out against the absurd appointment of Schabas. Many did so.
It’s Probably Nothing
Plunge: Baltic Dry Index hits a 29 year low. (h/t Adrian)
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
NRO; Federal Government Issued Nearly 5.5 Million Work Permits to Foreign Nationals Since 2009
Renegade Regulator
On June 5th, 2009, two men walked onto the property of a private residence on Millar Ave. in Saskatoon. They had instructions to remove the safety labelling affixed to a residential building. This wasn’t a foreclosure, there were no banks involved, and it wasn’t sanctioned by local police. Rather, it was part of a much larger raid taking place on private properties all across the Province, it was a scheme to remove evidence. The two men were from the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Calling @JohnGormleyShow! Canada's Ivory Twitter Liberals are using a blocking app. Raw #lpc disdain for the unwashed masses. #cdnpoli
— Katewerk (@katewerk) February 2, 2015
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
Daily Mail: Shocking video shows moment master of the hunt was beaten unconscious by balaclava-wearing protesters armed with iron bars.
A Comedy of Manners
If you want to find bad faith theatrics and unshakeable idiocy presented as virtue, head for the Clown Quarter of the nearest university. It’s where you’re most likely to find the word “privilege” deployed as an ad hominem device. A way of saying, “Your opinion doesn’t count (or doesn’t count as much as mine) because you have a certain level of melanin, or a penis, or the wrong kind of upbringing, or an insufficient number of hang-ups and fashionable pretensions.” Think of it as a kind of Maoist snobbery, in which, as Jesse Walker notes, the unwary are denounced for the rhetorical equivalent of using the wrong cutlery.
In my experience, the personalities to which such things appeal aren’t terribly interested in civility or justice, “social” or otherwise. What they seem to be interested in is opportunist scolding and one-upmanship, that all-important social positioning. And so what you see, and see quite often, isn’t concern for the supposedly vulnerable; it’s an assertion of status and a pay-off for all that wound-up dogmatism. It’s how professed egalitarians let us know they’re better than us.
Because they really do have to let us know.
Those Moderate Muslims!
A BBC report from Vast Majoritystan:
Azhar had a plan when he first arrived at Islamabad’s infamous Red Mosque seminary: behave like a visitor and build trust very slowly. By making it “quite clear” he was a BBC journalist, he thinks those at the seminary were “pleased” to have a platform from someone potentially “sympathetic to what they were teaching,” he told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani on Wednesday.
Soon after, however, Azhar realized that instead of teaching a “softer” type of Islam which is traditional in Pakistan, the Red Mosque was teaching Wahhabi Islam, a much more socially conservative type of Islam from Saudi Arabia.
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is a proper football fight song, one that contains words like “albeit” and “nonetheless.”
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
American Football Championship
Open thread.
Go SEAHAWKS!
Somebody has seen internals.
Debbie Wasserman Shultz, DNC chair and Florida Congresswoman, attacks MSNBC and other MSM outlets for biased coverage about Israel and Palestine.
Florida, one of the big six Electoral College states. A state where the Jewish vote is never outside the thought of the liberal media.
Coincidence? Maybe.
I never believe in coincidence when it comes to politics.
Barones Deech: “The Problem With Israel”
h/t Frank
Pollspotting
Just for fun.
Update: From 7% to 33% in a matter of hours. Things went wrong quickly.
Y2Kyoto: Revisionist Temperature
Suppose say, that for the last 100 years my family have been maintaining a weather station at the bottom of our garden, diligently recording the temperatures day by day, and that what these records show is this: that in the 1930s it was jolly hot – even hotter than in the 1980s; that since the 1940s it has been cooling.
What conclusions would you draw from this hard evidence?
Well the obvious one, I imagine, is that the dramatic Twentieth Century warming that people like Al Gore have been banging on about is a crock. At least according to this particular weather station it is.
Now how would you feel if you went and took these temperature records along to one of the world’s leading global warming experts – say Gavin Schmidt at NASA or Phil Jones at CRU or Michael Mann at Penn State – and they studied your records for a moment and said: “This isn’t right.” What if they then crossed out all your temperature measurements, did a few calculations on the back of an envelope, and scribbled in their amendments? And you studied those adjustments and you realised, to your astonishment, that the new, pretend temperature measurements told an entirely different story from the original, real temperature measurements: that where before your records showed a cooling since the 1940s they now showed a warming trend.
It’s Probably Nothing
h/t Bettie
Reader Tips
Every kiss you give me is thrilling
In a way I’d go for you so
Oh, My Sweet Tooth Says I Wanna,
but My Wisdom Tooth Says No… ♫
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Magna Carta: A Documentary
Any regular watchers of Sun News will know John Robson & Brigitte Pellerin. They want to make a compelling documentary about the Magna Carta document:
They need help to do this so have launched a KickStarter campaign. You can read much more here. Do help out if you can!