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Arrests at the Toronto Humane Society;
Police have arrested the Toronto Humane Society’s president, chief veterinarian and three other senior staff members and charged them with animal cruelty, six months after a Globe and Mail investigation revealed widespread troubles at the shelter.
At the same time, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals executed a search warrant at the shelter’s River Street facility late Thursday afternoon.
Humane Society president Tim Trow is facing Criminal Code charges of animal cruelty, conspiracy to commit cruelty to animals and obstruction of a peace officer. If convicted, Mr. Trow faces a maximum penalty of $2,000 and six months in jail for the animal cruelty charges, and two years in jail for the obstruction charges.
Head veterinarian Steve Sheridan, shelter manager Gary McCracken, manager Romeo Bernadino and shelter supervisor Andy Bechtel have also been arrested and face animal cruelty charges under the criminal code.
All of the above, as well as the Society’s board of directors, are also being charged with five counts of animal cruelty, a provincial offence under the Ontario SPCA Act (as opposed to criminal charges).
Better late than never. But that’s the problem with animal “rights” fronts like this and the
Humane Sociey of the United States. They have no real interest in the welfare of individual animals, beyond those they can exploit for fund raising campaigns. Their true goal is to eliminate animal ownership.
An Australian Liberal Party revolt over the carbon tax;
ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.
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Though the ETS squeaked narrowly through Australia’s House of Representatives, its Senate is proving more robust – thanks not least to the widespread disgust by the many Senators who have read Professor Plimer’s book Heaven And Earth at the dishonesty and corruption of the AGW industry. If the Senate keeps rejecting the scheme, then the Australian government will be forced to dissolve.
Now there’s a message in there for Michael Ignatieff, hiding in plain sight.
Too bad he’s preoccupied licking self-inflicted wounds.
h/t Tim Blair.
Update:
The growing resignation list;
Tony Abbott – former Howard minister, opposition families, housing, community services and indigenous affairs portfolio.
Nick Minchin – Liberal powerbroker and leader of the opposition in the Senate.
Sophie Mirabella – early childhood education, childcare, women and youth portfolio.
Stephen Parry – Chief Opposition Whip in the Senate.
Eric Abetz – Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
Michael Johnson – Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives.
Tony Smith – Opposition assistant treasurer.
Mathias Cormann – Opposition parliamentary secretary
Mitch Fifield – Opposition parliamentary secretary
Brett Mason – Opposition parliamentary secretary
h/t Kathryn
Russian anchors – doing the job Canadian news networks won’t do!
And you don’t need to speak Russian to enjoy it.
“In the Western press and blogs discussing the scandal provoked by hackers. The problem of global warming, they turned from the academic to the almost criminal.” – according to Google Translate
Jim Travesty of the Crneva Zvevda smears by:
So Gen. (ret’d) Rick Hillier is a wannabe caudillo, right? Better hide your children, James Travers of the Toronto Star seems to be suggesting…
Mark
If you’re wondering how the robot-like march of the world’s politicians towards Copenhagen can possibly continue in the face of the scientific scandal dubbed “climategate,” it’s because Big Government, Big Business and Big Green don’t give a s*** about “the science.”
They never have.
Indeed, they never have. Watch this and marvel…
Well, the focus has changed.
[This] article dated November 26th 2009 reveals that the MSM has a new reason for reducing carbon dioxide and it’s no longer global warming or climate change. The new reason for cutting carbon dioxide is“ … slashing carbon dioxide emissions also could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet.”
Read them both, then;
[S]end a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper by e-mail (pm@pm.gc.ca), fax (1-613-941-6900) or call toll-free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Office of the Prime Minister.
Do the same for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff by e-mail, (ignatm@parl.gc.ca). fax, (1-613-947-0310), or call-toll free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Liberal Leader’s Office.
Tell them you want no part of the madness in Copenhagen.
Blow their phones off the hook.
Your Member of Parliament can be contacted here.
Related – Charles Adler has Lorrie’s column from yesterday for those who missed it, along with commentary from Dr.Tim Ball.
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Canada Safeway diverts all watermelons in their Western Canadian distribution network to Calgary ….. developing…. |
It’s the tale of the red hot Kiwi…
[New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research’s] David Wratt has told Investigate magazine this afternoon his organization denies faking temperature data and he claims NIWA has a good explanation for adjusting the temperature data upward.
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Those adjustments were made by New Zealand climate scientist Jim Salinger, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who started work on the series when he was with the University of East Anglia, the centre of the Climategate scandal. (Salinger was dismissed by NIWA this year for speaking without authorisation to the media.)
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, which created the last two graphics and includes an IPCC reviewer, now alleges that Salinger and NIWA have refused to explain the basis on which the data was adjusted:The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.
Adjusted upward – by 1500 per cent.
Comparative graphs at the first link, full report from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition here (pdf).
(Thanks, tipsters. There were lots of you.)
Climate change quickens, seas feared up 2 meters
But first, please load the soundtrack.
Via
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. In tonight’s musical selection Texas native George Strait warns of interpersonal climate change, in his performance of Carter Wood’s ridiculously catchy Don’t Make Me Come Over There And Love You.
The comment thread is open for any interesting/timely tips you’d like to pass along to your fellow SDA readers.
No dino graphic this time.
Instead, I’d like to show you something at Macleans.ca
The generals
By Aaron Wherry – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 5:49 PM – 2 Comments
Reports from the testimony of Rick Hillier and Michel Gauthier from the Canadian Press, Globe, Star, Sun, CTV, CBC and Inside Politics…
Kandahar: we didn’t know what we were getting into
By John Geddes – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM – 7 Comments
Gen. Rick Hillier, the retired chief of defence staff, just moments ago reminded the House committee …
Norwich, we have a problem
By Colby Cosh – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM –127 Comments
I can’t say I am spectacularly surprised at the emerging scandal over private e-mails obtained from the servers of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit,…
I’ve said it before – this week in boardrooms across the industry, media executives are meeting with media experts to hash out yet another strategy, and yet more innovations to address their falling fortunes, every last one of them invested in the unshakable belief that the internet is burying them because it’s faster .
As though the only difference between shit and sunshine is the speed at which they travel.
Related – “I’ve heard about the cutbacks at the NYT and I guess it’s gotten so bad that they no longer allow internet access to reporters. So my news tip is that apparently, there’s some kind of development regarding the scientists behind the global warming data, involving emails or something like that…”
Also, highly recommended.
“I Have Seen The Enemy And I’m Thinking About It”
Note – an entry that was written, but held pending further information, appeared here for a short time when it was mistakenly auto-published.
Nothing in the information contained in the post has been challenged, but I’ve voluntarily pulled it in the interest of fairness, as we are giving the company involved further time to clarify what happened.
It will be republished if circumstances warrant.
(click the cartoon for story)
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Editor’s note: for as much attention as the emails have received – and they are damning – it’s the computer code that is revealing the real story behind the climate models. It includes corrupted and incomplete data, data manufacture and manipulation. programming failure, and program bias. The details are too lengthy and complex to include in this round-up post, but no commentary on this scandal is complete without a thorough examination of what is being uncovered in the CRU computer code files and documentation.
John Gormley Live and SDA – doing the job the CBC won’t do! (link fixed) Segment here.
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If you’re arriving here new to the Climategate scandal, these links will help to bring you up to speed. “The fix is in.” Possibly the best summary yet of the corruption of peer review, at Real Clear Politics. Let’s go to the pub – even better than the first. Climate Audit (currently on a mirror site as the original site server has been incapable of handling the traffic.) Original Climate Audit site (very technical). Surface Stations temperature station auditing project – Is the U.S. surface temperature record reliable? In a word – no. Watts Up With That? – Meteorologist Anthony Watts is your best bet for major breaking developments, explained in layman’s language. The CRU emails in a searchable format. THe CRU emails in clipping format. Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media has an extremely good analysis.. |
 Hide the Decline! “Mike’s nature trick” explained. |
The Harry_Read_Me.txt file – the world’s most frustrated Fortran programmer, in his own expletives.
Data Destruction; East Anglia CRU “have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.”
Freedom of Information denied – “This is an attack on the heart of science,”
Beware The Scientific-Technological Complex
Powerline Blog series on the email archives.
Recent Canadian commentary
Stephen Taylor interviews Ross McKitrick
Ross McKitrick, Financial Post – “Flawed climate data”
Lorne Gunter, National Post – Cooking The Climate Books
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun – “‘Botch after botch after botch'”
Douglas J. Keenan – The Wang Affair
As usual, their columnists are well ahead of the news department. What gives? I presume they’re published out of the same building….
The SDA “The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose” series in chronological order, a loose compendium of links, quotes, and developments as they emerge across various sites on the net.
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“Piltdown Mann”
(h/t James)
The fast-moving international case against a Pakistani-Canadian businessman charged with plotting a terror attack in Denmark and suspected of others in India moved into Pakistan on Monday night with news of the capture of another suspect.
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If confirmed, Kashmiri’s arrest will expand the global nature of the case, which already has connections to Chicago, Copenhagen, Mumbai and Kanata. It would also highlight the intercontinental reach of suspected terrorist operations.
Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, and Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, 49, were arrested in Chicago by the FBI last month and accused of plotting the murder of an editor and cartoonist at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which ran controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammad in 2005. They face charges of conspiring to provide material support for terrorism and providing material support to terrorism.
Buried way, way down at the bottom…
According to his brother, Rana is “honest” and “hard-working.” In Monday’s edition of The Hill Times, Abbas Rana said the charges against his the brother were “false,” and that the ordeal had plunged his family into a nightmare.
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“Abbas is a respected Parliament Hill journalist who has been on the The Hill Times staff for seven years,”
via Bourque
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