“The Indian was striking him on the head with a two-by-four while he was unconscious.”

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Watch as the Globe and Mail smears these pigs with lipstick ;

Native occupation about to end peacefully when confrontation occurred between contractor and several young men, police say

In the real world we call this a home invasion.

The occupation was about to end peacefully around 4 p.m. when the subdeveloper entered the house and clashed with several aboriginal youths.
Sam Gualtieri, 52, of Caledonia, was found unconscious on the floor inside the home with at least four young men, his brother Joe, told The Globe and Mail. His brother was trying to chase them out of the house when they punched him, his nephews later told him.
“The Indian was striking him on the head with a two-by-four while he was unconscious.”
Mr. Gualtieri was rushed to West Haldimand General Hospital with serious injuries.
“He’s in and out of consciousness. He has a concussion, a broken nose, he’s bruised all over the face. His teeth are broken. He might have fluid in his spine as well,” Joe Gualtieri said.
OPP Constable Paula Wright confirmed there was a confrontation between a 52-year-old contractor and a “number of unknown young males” shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday near the building site where protesters from the Six Nations reserve were gathered.

Guess who gave them the green light?

While the province purchased the Douglas Creek site from the developer, builders who now become the target of protest should not look to the province for help, according to industry sources who attended a recent private briefing by John Burke, the deputy minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Industry sources said that, last Friday, the final business day before the writ calling the provincial election came down, Mr. Burke said the province stands behind its land registry system and development approval process.
But he cautioned that native protests turn a construction site into police business, and even if the builder gets a court injunction ordering protesters off the site, the police will be cautious in enforcing it because their priority is avoiding conflict, the sources added.
“The message to individual developers was: Pray to God that your land doesn’t get occupied,” said one developer who heard Mr. Burke.

The Toronto Star relates a somewhat different (though equally sanitized) sequence of events;

Natives said the youths saw the builder enter the home and went to investigate. When they were attacked, they defended themselves.

As I said, where I come from, they call this a home invasion.
With the writ dropped, no better opportunity exists for the beseiged residents of Caledonia to turn this issue into Dalton McGuinty’s worst election nightmare. You have 25 days, people – make them count.
(If you can stomach the wretched site design, there’s lots more at CWC, including a link to a site that has recorded radio transmissions of OPP & DCE security.)
UPDATE – According to the Globe & Mail, the noble savagelets defending themselves from an unconscious man did so while police stood by and did nothing.

See McGuinty – Updated: See McGuinty Threaten Media

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See McGuinty run;

Quattrociocchi, whose plan to build duplexes in Brantford has been put on hold because of a protest by Natives, voiced his concern over the situation but was simply told by the Premier that it was ‘a federal problem’.

Brantford Expositor;

Quattrociocchi said he did his best to avoid problems before work started.
“I don’t understand why this is happening,” he said. “I’ve been playing by the rules and I’m a small developer.
“If my small eight-unit development has created such concern with some members of the Six Nations, then does this mean that all houses along the Grand River as well as the casino are owned by Six Nations?”

Looks like it…

A small Brantford development company will not yield to “extortion” by paying the Six Nations Confederacy Council a fee before it goes ahead with the construction of four semi-detached homes, its owner said yesterday.
Mike Quattrociocchi said that under the terms of a so-called development protocol, the aboriginal group wants him to give it about 4 per cent of the estimated $1.2-million value of project. He said he plans to resume construction next week, even though it is likely to trigger protests.
“They are going for the small guys because they know they can squeeze us,” said Mr. Quattrociocchi, whose project was shut down last week by native protesters.
Earlier this week, the confederacy council, which represents the hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations, announced the creation of the Haudenosaunee Development Institute, an agency that the chiefs say will “oversee” the development of lands in the Haldimand tract, an area six miles on either side of the Grand River.

From the comments – “It gets darker. Looks like Ben Chin tried to have the story hushed up.”
Updated: See McGuinty Threaten

Those Misunderstood Muslims

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Times;

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.
Mr Usmani, 64, sat for 20 years as a Sharia judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He is an adviser to several global financial institutions and a regular visitor to Britain. Polite and softly spoken, he revealed to The Times a detailed knowledge of world events and his words, for the most part, were balanced and considered.
He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire nonMuslim world was intent on destroying Islam. Yet this is a man who, in his published work, argues the case for Muslims to wage an expansionist war against nonMuslim lands.
Mr Usmani’s justification for aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy is revealed at the climax of his book, Islam and Modernism. The work is a polemic against Islamic modernists who seek to convert the entire Koran into “a poetic and metaphorical book” because, he says, they have been bewitched by Western culture and ideology.

Reconstructing Stonechild

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Much is being made of the “jailhouse testimony” by a man who now states Saskatoon police officers Bradley Senger and Lawrence Hartwig were not responsible for the freezing death of Neil Stonechild…

The notorious freezing death of Neil Stonechild 17 years ago was a murder calculated to keep him from testifying at a trial, and had nothing to do with police, a police commission hearing was told Wednesday.
A career criminal told the Saskatoon hearing that a gun deal gone bad led to 17-year-old Stonechild’s murder by a man against whom he was scheduled to testify.

… by the same people in local media who neglect to mention the nature of the testimony by the lone “eye witness” who put Stonechild in the officer’s car 4 days before his disappearance – career criminal Jason Roy;

He didn’t come forward with his story about the cry for help until after receiving visualization therapy at Kilborn detention center for juvenile offenders.

Nor is it usually mentioned that the judge who oversaw the inquiry discounted the testimony of two accredited forensic pathologists in favour of Roy’s reconstructed memory.

Y2Kyoto: Dion’s Dog Didn’t Hunt

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Calgary Sun;

The paper copy of a power-point presentation assembled for incoming Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn specifically addresses whether Canada’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels during the next four years and when Canada can pull out of the accord.
One page raises the question, “Whether/when to acknowledge Canada will be very unlikely to meet target?”
It goes on to state the government “Cannot formally ‘de-ratify’ (Kyoto) until 2009.”
The document, dated Feb. 3, 2006, was only days before Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet was sworn in after the Conservatives’ election victory. Less than two months earlier, the former Liberal environment minister Stephane Dion hosted a conference on climate change.

h/t

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The margin of error…
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Anthony Watts;

Immediately after the conference, a senior official at NCDC requested a copy of the [slide show], which I provided to him on CDROM. After receiving it, in a follow up email he inquired as to distribution rights which I granted within NCDC and NOAA for the purpose of review. That was last week. Thus far no issues have been raised with the presentation content. Since no issues were raised at the conference or in the two weeks afterwards (two weeks as of today) I have decided to release it publicly. Note that of the 33% surveyed, only 13% meet the CRN site criteria (Rating of 1 and 2) for an acceptable location to accurately measure long term climate change free of localized influences.

Here’s one for old times sake – USHCN Lovelock.

Be sure to check out the slide show.

A Children’s Guide to 9/11 (Updated)

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And updated again BBC Backtracks On Correction
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And bumped.
The blogosphere gets results!– “The BBC has taken down the original quoted page that implied 911 was America’s fault.”
Original post continues below:
From the BBC;

The way America has got involved in conflicts in regions like the Middle East has made some people very angry, including a group called al-Qaeda – who are widely thought to have been behind the attacks.
In the past, al-Qaeda leaders have declared a holy war – called a jihad – against the US. As part of this jihad, al-Qaeda members believe attacking US targets is something they should do.
When the attacks happened in 2001, there were a number of US troops in a country called Saudi Arabia, and the leader of al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, said he wanted them to leave.

And who is Al-Qaeda?

Al-Qaeda has been accused of being behind a series of attacks and bombings since its formation in the late 1980s.
Because of this, it is classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government.
Members are followers of Islam but they have very extreme beliefs that are different from those of many Muslims.
They believe they are fighting a holy war (jihad) against enemies of their religion.
Al-Qaeda hopes its attacks will make Western countries treat Muslims differently in areas like the Middle East, the Balkans and Chechnya .
People have joined the group from many countries including Britain.
They operate internationally but are thought to be strongest in Arab countries.

Unbelievable.
It’s as if the CBC wrote this stuff.
h/t
(Upon further reflection – there’s something that does ring appropriate when leftist crap like this is written in a 5 year old’s voice.)

Lorne Calvert: The Price Of Prince Albert – $99M

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KaCHING!
Scroll down for update.
Over a backdrop of taxpayer-funded happy, shiny people government advertising, we find out today Calvert’s opening bid for 3 NDP seats in Prince Albert;

Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert is set to make an announcement about forestry in Prince Albert Wednesday and there’s speculation it could be about reopening part of the city’s closed pulp and paper operation.
More than 300 former millworkers packed into the city’s union centre for a closed door meeting Tuesday night.
Before the mills closed, Weyerhaeuser was Prince Albert’s largest private sector employer. Before the mills closed, Weyerhaeuser was Prince Albert’s largest private sector employer.
While they were saying little afterward, it’s believed they were mulling over a plan by forestry company Domtar and the province to reopen at least part of the mill.

Do I hear 10% government ownership share and a $22 million donation? Going.. going…
A reader writes privately about something that struck me as well. There is no actual announcement of a plant reopening…
and then there’s that sense of deja vu…

If this sounds kind of familiar, maybe everyone should remember the
Broe ethanol announcement before the last election. Big sod-turning ceremony near Belle Plaine with Calvert, busloads of children, etc. And then it never happened.


Update: local media was invited to a signing ceremony between Calvert and Domtar for “a memorandum of understanding”… after an announcement that listed a number of “subject to'”s (including building a “world class” facility, whatever that means, and the value of the Canadian dollar remaining at par, and approval by regulatory bodies, etc. etc.), the parties left without holding any formal question and answer with reporters. I’m sure someone will have a total of the crapload of cash they’re (promising) to throw at this, including $32 million in grant money…. plus “equity investments” in the Big River and Wakaweekna (sp?) plants and 10% in Domtar’s pulp mill.
Montreal Lake Cree claim they haven’t been consulted, and until they are, nobody’s getting on their land. Translation: “open that wallet, boys”.
A list of the “subject to’s” ;

  • an engineering study;
  • a feasibility study;
  • a new operational design for the pulp mill;
  • consultation with First Nations and Metis people;
  • approval by Domtar’s Board of Directors and various regulatory bodies;
  • finding an independent third party to finance, build and operate a
    wood sorting and chipping plant.
    Once that’s achieved, Domtar is committed to “make reasonable efforts to
    re-open” the pulp mill.

    • Free Speech In Europe’s Muslim-Controlled Capital

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    ***
    I’ll bet you missed this on last night’s national news;

    To commemorate September 11th, people from around Europe had planned to do something about the things they weren’t happy with – in this case, it was to demonstrate against the Islamization of Europe. Naturally, their demonstration was banned by Brussels’ government and the riot police were sent out to meet the demonstrators:

    Brussels Journal;

    The grey-haired man whom we see being attacked by the police first is Luk Van Nieuwenhuysen, the Vice-President of the Flemish Parliament. Shortly afterwards we see the police maltreating Frank Vanhecke, a member of the European Parliament and the party leader of the Vlaams Belang. We see how he is handcuffed and pushed into a police bus. Afterwards we also see the police “taking care” of Filip Dewinter, the VB group leader in the Flemish Parliament. We see how his arm gets caught between the closing doors of the bus. An Italian MEP and a French MEP were also arrested. The demonstrators were kept in cells for seven hours and released this evening.

    Be sure to read through the comments.

    The Sound Of Settled Science

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    GHCN-1900.gif
    GHCN stations with mean temperature data from present to the year 1900.
    For those who say…

    that “the USA only has 2% of the worlds area, so it really doesn’t matter”, I’d point out this graphic from NCDC which shows the distribution of weather stations that have mean temperature records going back to 1900. The USA makes up the lions share of the weather stations in the world with complete data sets spanning 100 years.

    Be sure to read the whole thing.

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