Michael Geist is “Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Policy Laundering Strategy”
This lengthy post seeks to unravel the effort further by demonstrating how there has been a clear strategy of deploying seemingly independent organizations to advance the same goals, claims, arguments, and recommendations. Over the past three years, this strategy has played out with multiple reports, each building on the next with a steady stream of self-citation. The following diagram highlights the key players…
The big pictures, from the International Space Station. (More here).
The Lower Mainland’s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.’s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.
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The Fraser Health Authority will pay $616,000 in carbon tax this year, rising to $821,000 next year, officials there said.
And by 2010 Fraser will also be paying $1.3 million a year to the province’s Pacific Carbon Trust to offset its projected 52,600 tonnes of carbon emissions released.
The trust pays out money to offset projects – for example to help a firm upgrade its industrial heating system so less carbon-based fossil fuel is used. The carbon emissions saved are counted against what the paying arm of government emits.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority also expects its costs will be close to $2 million next year in combined carbon tax and offset payments.
Fraser Health officials are grappling with a budget shortfall of more than $100 million and potential cuts to patient services, while low on their list, have not been ruled out.
A personal message for our carbon cultist friends out there – when the costs of your government mandated climate scams begin to extend the government mandated wait lists for diagnosis and treatment, my only consolation will come from knowing that some the family members who cease CO2 emission prematurely will be yours.
It’s not an extinction. It’s suicide.
Tremble before the superior superiority of your mainstream journalism superiors…
h/t Franksworld
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the bubbles in the sodas began to defizzle…”
“At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation [Waxman-Markey] is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in some A&M Records footage ¤ from 1966 (8:22).
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“It was a bit of a pain because there were all these women who suddenly wanted to be lesbians, but they didn’t actually terribly want to sleep with women.”
You would think that among 44 speakers listed along with summaries of their papers on the [York University] conference website, that the organizers would find one person willing to defend Israel’s right to continued existence and the defense of its borders. Not so—even among the few scholars at the conference with misgivings about the one-state solution, there was uniform agreement that Israel is operating an “apartheid” state comparable to South Africa’s during the 1980s (“apartheid” was a favorite word to hurl at Israel in the paper summaries, along with “colonialism,” “racist,” and “ethnic cleansing”) and that there ought to be some sort of right of return for Palestinians, if only to the West Bank or Gaza.
h/t Rabbit
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times, June 23rd – “Out of cash and understaffed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has suspended its faltering effort to analyze DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases.”
The Trumpet, June 23rd – “The state of California says the [Mount Slover limestone cement facility] must reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent per ton of cement. The company estimates that to retrofit its operations will cost in excess of $220 million—for just one plant. But there is not nearly enough limestone in its quarry to justify such an expense.”
All on the taxpayers dime;
“I have a file. I’m sure I have 1,200, certainly several hundred of these things”.
Let’s make better use of their time. BCF offers instructions on how to file an access to information request.
More.
Heh.
A President at his non-meddlesome best;
The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
Another Ramirez masterpiece. (Via)
More: One dictator’s Revolutionary Guard is another President’s debating team!
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Gary Numan performing Engineers ¤ (4:01), from his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle.
| All that we are, Is all that we need to be. All that we know, Is you and machinery. We’re engineers. We are your heartbeat, We’re engineers. |
We are your voice, We are your blood flow, We are your eyes, We’re all you need to know. We’re engineers. All that we are, We’re engineers. |
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Just snap your fingers and fix the USA!
Related: Rasmussen
Pick the Continue Reading link for George Friedman’s
above titled essay, from Strategic Forecasting Inc. (via
www.stratfor.com), permission granted to reproduce here.
Mr. Friedman’s essay from last week is also available here.
Update: Kissinger comments.
“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” Sarkozy said to extended applause at the Chateau of Versailles, southwest of Paris.
“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”
Well, good luck with that.
“So a person responsible for misrepresenting science in a government report has ties and presumably financial interests with companies that have an interest in climate policy outcomes?”
“Mr. Ignatieff’s reinterpretation of the Pauchay story wouldn’t be worth a second thought if he weren’t leader of the Liberal Party and possibly Canada’s next prime minister.”
h/t Bourque
