The military has identified the four Canadian soldiers killed in a blast that also killed a journalist.They will be remembered.
They are Sgt. George Miok, 28, Cpl. Zachery McCormack, 21, both of Edmonton, Sgt. Kirk Taylor, 28, of Yarmouth, N.S., and Pte. Garrett Chidley, 21, of Cambridge, Ont.
"There is no list of over 500 murdered and missing white women killed by indigenous men, there is however a list of over 500 murdered and missing indigenous women, most of those women were killed by white men."Uh, Terry... I think I'm gonna want to have a look at that list. I mean, if you've actually got the names of 500 "white" murderers... maybe you oughta be turning them over to the police.
"I am inviting a lot of the families of murdered and missing women to be standing on the road with pictures of them," Roseau River Anishnabe First Nation Chief Terry Nelson said by phone Wednesday.
"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."You gonna try blame that one on the evil white man too?
Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.
"The average death rate on reserves for the decade ending in 2002 was more than seven times the national average."You think that might just have something to do with some of those murdered and missing women?
"There are only two ways of dealing with the white man.Good grief... this is the aboriginal community's "best & brightest"?
One, either you pick up a gun, or you stand between the white man and his money," Terry Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation told CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live on Tuesday.
Four soldiers and one journalist, all Canadians, were killed yesterday by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar, Afghanistan.Just one more thing to think about while Iggy & Taliban Jack incessantly screech about how we're responsible for how the Afghan government treats jailed terrorists.
The names of the dead soldiers won't be released until their families have been notified.
Government lawyers acknowledged early on that normal policing, where officers conduct investigations and make arrests in a timely manner, didn't happen during the occupation."Provocative action"... like, you know... enforcing the law of the land.
Both Queen's Park and the OPP were concerned that “provocative action” by the police could escalate the crisis, and relied instead on special guidelines for “aboriginal critical incidents.”
In practice the policy led to bald-faced two-tiered policing – strict, arguably over-enforcement of the law for non-natives, virtually none for natives – which infuriated Caledonia residents and emboldened the most lawless of the protesters.•
"Lumpy Grumpy & Frumpy posted some nice shots of the Nazis for Gaza Freedom March in Toronto."
"The same guy holding that flag and giving the Nazi salute is later seen waving the flag of Hezbollah, which is an illegal terrorist organization according to the Canadian government."Another startling little item you're never gonna see on CTV, CBC... or Liblogs.
When asked about the video and whether police trucks intentionally ran over people, Gen. Moghaddam became enraged. “Don't ask lies,” he said. “There are no pictures showing police cars running over people.”{•}
A young man was found shot to death in the street outside a west Toronto pizza shop on Tuesday night.**********
A TTC driver led emergency crews to the scene, on Gilmour Ave. in the Dundas St.-Runnymede Rd. area, shortly before 10 p.m.
The victim has not been identified and police are looking for two suspects.
It is the city's 62nd murder of 2009.
The deceased was identified as Kenneth Mark of Toronto.And guess what he was murdered for...
A 29-year-old man shot in the back of the head in the Junction last night may have been targeted because he was a police community liaison, investigators said today.•
Kenneth Mark was found on Gilmour Avenue just north of Dundas Street West; he had stopped for pizza en route to a nearby Wal-Mart, where he was night manager. Police said he was wearing headphones and likely didn’t hear anyone as he was approached from behind.
Paramedics performed CPR for 20 minutes before taking him to hospital, where he later died.
‘‘He was the salt of the earth,’’ said Detective Hank Idsinga, the homicide officer in charge of the investigation, who said Mr. Mark had no criminal record and had done ‘‘some community work,’’ for police in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Mark has reportedly recently stopped some young men from entering a nearby housing complex with a gun, which investigators say may have been the motive behind the shooting.
Witnesses have described two suspects — both black men in their 20s wearing dark clothing.
-- VIENNA -- Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. Diplomats said the assessment was heightening international concern about Tehran's nuclear activities.No need to worry though... the United Nations has this one covered...
Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze its enrichment program and related activities that could be used to make nuclear weapons.{•}
-- SANAA, YEMEN -- "Mohammed Attik al-Harbi, also known as Mohammed al-Awfi, and Said Ali Shari were sent home to Saudi Arabia, where they were admitted to an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and later set free, US and Saudi officials said."Little bit of finger-painting, maybe make an ashtray for mom?
“I won’t go into too much details about me [sic] fantasy, but basically they are jihad fantasies [sic]. I imagine how the great jihad will take place, how the Muslims will win insha Allah and rule the whole world, and establish the greatest empire once again!!!”{•}
-- OTTAWA -- An Ottawa police officer has been stabbed to death in an early-morning incident at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.**********
The incident occurred outside the main emergency room entrance of the Carling Ave. hospital inside the covered ambulance bay.
Police have not released the identity of the slain officer pending notification of next of kin. A further update will be provided by police around 11 a.m.
-- OTTAWA -- A former RCMP officer is in custody in connection to the stabbing death of an Ottawa police officer this morning outside the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, the Sun has learned.•
Multiple sources have confirmed to the Sun that Kevin Gregson, 43, will appear at the Elgin Street courthouse this morning to face charges in the slaying.
How's that workin' out for ya?"Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007."**********
And that's not all... looks like my silly little friend went to the trouble of forging my blog and linking to a porn site as well...
Yup... you can almost smell the loneliness... not to mention the obsession.
-- TORONTO -- The lanky, fast-talking street person had evaporated into the streets of downtown Toronto last July, after his arrest on cocaine-trafficking charges, and missed three consecutive court dates. Few judges would have considered taking a chance on him again.So now we're skewing the legal system... based on a person's racial background?
“My client was very fortunate that the stars lined up for him,” Mr. Thibault's lawyer, Steven Dallal, said afterward. “His counterpart in an ordinary court would probably not have been released.”
A large swath of a Scarborough mall parking lot was cordoned off after a man was shot and killed by police outside a movie theatre Sunday night.Oh man... Toronto cops just randomly execute people?
There was also a report the man was seen in the parking lot with a gun before police were called.Oh.
"Tiwari himself was last seen standing atop the Taj Mahal, pounding his chest and threatening passing biplanes with his junk."•
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman, will host a conference next week (27-31 December) for Israeli Heads of Missions."You recall all your ambassadors... worldwide... that's serious business.
...and buy this dumb bunny a one-way ticket to some dreamlike egalitarian paradise... like say, Yemen.Iraqi security forces say they defused nine bombs in the city of Karbala as hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims gathered for a religious festival.**********
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki praised the "exceptional efforts" of security forces in averting attacks on pilgrims taking part in the Ashura festival.
Iraqi officials said five pilgrims were killed and 15 injured when a bomb blast hit a procession in Tuz Khormato, near Kirkuk in north-east Iraq on Sunday.
-- KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim procession in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi killed 30 people and wounded dozens more Monday, as Shiites across the country marked the key holy day of Ashoura.Yup... I say we just blame the Jews.
Outraged Shiites responded by setting fire to buildings and vehicles at the blast site and hurling stones at security forces who had been guarding the march for their failure to prevent the attack.
Ms. Napolitano, who said repeatedly on the Sunday programs that the system had “worked” because passengers jumped on Mr. Abdulmutallab as he tried to ignite a highly explosive powder mixture, PETN, also called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, that he had taped to his leg.The enduring genius of Janet Napolitano.
A day after saying the system worked, Napolitano backtracked, saying her words had been taken out of context.**********
"Our system did not work in this instance," she said on NBC's Today show. "No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way."
As of August, Ontario taxpayers had invested $6.5 million in setting up the passport alternative to meet new U.S. travel identification requirements.The ongoing financial genius of Dalton & Company.
That means each EDL issued so far cost taxpayers more than $430, but drivers paid only $40 on top of a regular $75 licencing fee.
-- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities.**********
The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington, D.C., area, were picked up in Pakistan earlier this month in a case that has spurred fears that Westerners are travelling to the South Asian country to join militant groups.
The Ontario Government will pay the former CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation almost $750,000 to end a wrongful dismissal lawsuit she launched against the province.**********
There may not have been coal in your stocking but there's still plenty in Ontario's power generating system.•
About 6,100 megawatts of coal-fired generation continues to operate in the province, or about 20% of total generating capacity -- two years after Premier Dalton McGuinty's self-imposed shutdown deadline of 2007.
McGuinty promised to end the use of coal in Ontario by 2007 during the 2003 general election but since winning that race, the target date has been pushed back several times and is now 2014.
"Since peaceful carrots and sticks cannot work, and an invasion would be foolhardy, the United States faces a stark choice: military air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities or acquiescence to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons."•
-- DENVER -- Family members say 44-year-old Erin Marcove gave the toddler at least one peanut butter cookie made with cannabis butter on Dec. 4. The next day, she had trouble rousing the boy and called an ambulance.{•}
Lieutenant Andrew Richard Nutall, who served in the first battalion battle group of the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was killed in the blast along with an Afghan National Army soldier.He will be remembered.
A millionaire businessman has been jailed for two and a half years for taking on a knife-wielding burglar who held him and his family hostage in their home.**********
Munir Hussain, 52, was told he was wrong to take the law into his hands and attack Walid Salem, 56, after the masked intruder threatened to kill him.
Salem is being held in custody awaiting trial for credit card fraud, which he allegedly committed in the weeks following the burglary.
Most of the 15 migrants ordered released this week are going to live in Toronto, she added. Some are moving to Ottawa and Montreal.**********
•Although, Ms. Guergis does not comment on her husband’s situation, it has not stopped the Liberal opposition. She is faced, at times, with nasty heckling: “Are those ‘lines’ you are reading,” MPs will yell in reference to lines of cocaine.Just a sidenote here... but have you heard even one Liberal MP mention the tortured and maimed wives & daughters in Afghanistan?
As well, there are references to the minister, who is very attractive and soft-spoken (she won a local beauty pageant in the early 90s), having “powder” around her nose. Nice.
"The number of hog farms in the Greenbelt decreased by 27 per cent in the Greenbelt versus 11 per cent province-wide; Greenbelt beef farms decreased 24 per cent versus 13 per cent across Ontario while the number of Greenbelt dairy farms dropped 5 per cent more than the provincial average."•
-- WATERLOO -- In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.**********
As well, there is no solid evidence that the global warming from 1950 to 2000 was due to CO2.
Instead, Lu notes, it was probably due to CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays. And from 1850 to 1950, the recorded CO2 level increased significantly because of the industrial revolution, while the global temperature kept nearly constant or only rose by about 0.1 C.
Unfortunately, some members of the public have been duped by so-called "skepticlowns" like Shotgun and Spanky.**********
They have cynically sought to shut down clown science by demanding that I reveal to them my raw climate data, when they damn well know doing so would violate the Sacred Science Law of the Clowns.
"I strongly recommend the book "The Sun" by David Whitehouse. Who would have thought that the great ball of fire in the sky has a greater impact on temperature than whether or not I take the bus to work?"•
A man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder today in the shooting death of 15-year-old Jane Creba on a downtown Toronto street crowded with Boxing Day shoppers four years ago.**********
Jeremiah Valentine, 27, was charged after a gunfight erupted on Yonge Street on Dec. 26, 2005.
Mr. Valentine instead chose to avoid trial by entering a guilty plea before Mr. Justice John McMahon of the Ontario Superior Court.
Until now, Valentine's notorious past had been under wraps while he faced the murder charge. But with his guilty plea, the Star can reveal Valentine had a criminal record of 10 adult convictions for firearms, drug offences and numerous failures to comply with court orders.Of course, there was no actual remorse... this thug just wanted a "get out of jail free" card.
On Sept. 19, 2005, the day he was arrested on cocaine charges, Valentine told detectives he was fed up with the gangster life. He said he was tired of watching friends kill friends.
Despite past refusals to break the "code of the street" against snitching, he was willing to talk about the secret world of the Driftwood Crips and his own related crew, the Killer Crips, in the Jane St. and Finch Ave. W. area.
-- OTTAWA -- The New Democratic Party called Monday for the restoration of $7-million in government funds to KAIROS, a mainstream Christian religious organization.Call me wacky, my Dipper friends... but how about we consider letting Canadian taxpayers off the hook here?
"There was the small problem of their website, rife with calls for political war against Israel, and links to groups who lacked KAIROS's Canadian sophistication about how to phrase their bigotry in the soothing tones of diplomatic gibberish."•
"About a week ago, one of their more sober friends obviously told them, 'maybe you should lose the kauft nicht bei Juden business'."
“There are approximately 5,000 chronic addicts in the Downtown Eastside,” she noted. “So there is so much more we have to do."And hey, Vancouverites... stand by for the city's much anticipated & wildly celebrated "Alcohol for Alcoholics" initiative.
Ever wonder what these guys do when they're not out at 2:00 am spray-painting marxist tripe on walls in dirty downtown alleys?"Readers of The Nexus may recall that, a few days ago, Robert Peter John Day issued a challenge to Steve Janke."Good grief.
"The idea was that Day and Janke would meet in 'a parkade or abandoned warehouse' for a no-holds-barred fist fight."
...and meet the full bore, take no prisoners love-child of Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney... and Optimus Prime.-- TORONTO -- A 23-year-old man was arrested after he walked into 53 Division police station at Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. early Friday evening, said Det.-Sgt. Mike Barsky, of the Toronto Police homicide squad.You wrap your hands around the throat of a teenage girl and... looking right into her eyes... you crush her windpipe and watch her life drain away.
Investigators found the strangled body of a 19-year-old girl at the man's apartment, he said.
Investigators alleged the killing was pre-meditated and charged New Orleans resident Binh Nguyen with one count of first-degree murder.
An altercation ensued, but the country’s top civilian defence official was told by the police and soldiers that they take orders from senior generals and judges, not government ministers.•
There is lot more to these machinations than meets the eye and the stakes are very high for Canada, the U.S. and the rest of the West.
Although the generally pro-Taliban Pakistani media has defined the NRO debate as being about corruption, it is really about the military and intelligence services refusing to accept civilian control.
"What did Langry’s total travel and hospitality expenses cost taxpayers of this nation in 2007?"Fire... them... all.
"Answer: $73,024.40."
The bill, proposed in October, would vastly expand an existing law banning sex between people of the same gender.**********
Among other punishments, it provides for the death penalty for people who engage in homosexual sex with a minor or while infected with HIV.
The following year she made another trip to Geneva, this time to consult with the likes of countries like Bangladesh, Cameroon, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Saudi Arabia.•
The last country, by the way, is about to execute two men for the crime of “sorcery”.
Who says the Liberal Party of Canada doesn't have any clearly articulated vision or policies?They sent the letter to Carolyn Bennett, a Liberal MP and physician who they knew once cared for one of the sisters' relatives. It impressed the MP.**********
“I frankly didn't know about international orgasm day,” says Dr. Bennett.
“These two young women were so compelling in terms of their environmental credibility, in terms of why they were wanting to do this … I thought I should send the minister of health a letter.”
• TORONTO • A 16-year-old boy whose mother put him on a Canada-bound plane with the goal of having him illegally immigrate will be allowed to stay, at least temporarily, after the Toronto Children's Aid Society suggested the boy's safety would be at risk if deported to his home country of St. Lucia.Hang on a second... is that the criteria we're using here?
Despite the fact that the boy's mother and his four siblings still live in St. Lucia, and that the boy has regular telephone contact with his family and has received past financial help from them, Children's Aid, in the words of Justice Mainville, "has apparently decided that the best interest of the child lies elsewhere than with his biological family."
"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."*
Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.
-- ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's top court struck down a 2007 decree protecting President Asif Ali Zardari and other senior officials from past graft charges, in a ruling that could lead to a challenge to the legitimacy of his election.And we're not just talking a couple of shady, under the table transactions here. President Zardari, the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, was known in Pakistan as "Mr Ten Percent"... the amount of vig he reputedly skimmed off every deal he was ever involved in.
The amnesty decree, known as the National Reconciliation Ordinance, was introduced in October 2007 by then-President Pervez Musharraf as a part of a deal -- brokered by the U.S. and Britain -- which allowed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to return from exile for elections.And truthfully, worldwide... Pakistan isn't even on the top ten offenders list. And, to its credit, the Pakistani court system has actually risen up struck down this egregiously self-serving law.
The decree released thousands of politicians and bureaucrats from charges of graft and other offenses.
-- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Parts of the Pakistani military and intelligence services are mounting what American officials here describe as a campaign to harass American diplomats, fraying relations at a critical moment when the Obama administration is demanding more help to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda.*
I've just finished reading... "To Hellholes and Back"..."We’ve become soft. Like Jell-O. You. Me. Everyone. America. Americans. Too fragile to breath in someone else’s cigarette smoke, ride a bike without a helmet, or play Texas hold ’em without a pair of wraparound sunglasses."And another little snippet...
"We’re turning into a nation of fearful twats, obsessed with supposedly tragic childhoods, lousy parents, career disappointments, social outrages, political grudges, and long lists of personal grievances that until recently were collectively known as the human fucking condition."
"And food. Being a picky eater is another of my more emasculating confessions. Few pretrip worries weigh on me like the prospect of being the haole guest of honor at some native banquet presented with a steaming bowl of goat ovaries and baked kittens while a klatch of locals watch in anticipation to see if I merely love the national cuisine, or really love it!"Well worth the read.
So as we can see, of all the stations available in the antarctic, GHCN has chosen to use a single station on the Antarctic Peninsula to represent an entire continent of the earth for the past 17 years.*
But it’s not just any station, it’s a special one. Rothera Point has the single highest trend of any of the adjusted station data.
I’m sick to death of advocate scientists pretending there are only minimal problems in the temperature record. Currently the ‘homogenized’ value added version of GHCN has a trend that is EIGHT times higher than actual for the ENTIRE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT.
So I wonder if we can now, spend some of the ‘BILLIONS OF DOLLARS’ on cleaning up the temperature record!!! It’s no coincidence that AGW scientists aren’t demanding this be done in my opinion either.
With 62 convictions already on his rap sheet, many of them drug-related, this 32-year-old man recently appeared in bail court at Old City Hall and was released on a $1,000 surety -- no deposit, and therefore no financial pain -- and given the liberty of house arrest after being charged, yet again, for trafficking in crack cocaine.And...
And he was given this break by a JP despite also being on bail on other charges, as well as being on probation for one of those previous 62 convictions.
About $70,000 worth of marijuana and cocaine was allegedly found in the rented Yorkville house Mr. Kenk shared with classical pianist Jeanie Chung, who also faced drug charges. Those charges were dropped as part of today's plea bargain.**********
A 27-year-old man is expected to survive after being shot in the head early Tuesday morning in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood.*
The man was shot while on Edwin Avenue at Dupont Street, just east of Dundas Street West, at around 12:30 a.m. Police say the bullet hit the man in the forehead but inflicted non life-threatening injuries. He spent the night in hospital having surgery.
Rick Mercer’s advice to Liberals: “First rule of photoshop – no posting of penis pics on politicians’ heads."Hmmm... I guess rules... over at the Igantieff Party of Toronto, anyway... were meant to be broken...
"Second rule – no assassinations."
And the mainstream media goes totally ape... wait a minute...
•In early 2007, Iran’s former deputy Minister of Defense defected to Turkey and told the CIA that Iran was funding a top-secret nuclear facility in Syria in conjunction with North Korea.*
The murder of a 62-year-old woman is just the latest in a series of violent incidences to befall the seventh floor of a Dundas St. W. and Scarlett Rd. apartment building.**********
Antonia Catherine Zammit was found dead early this morning in her seventh-floor unit at 3725 Dundas St. W.
Directly across the hall is where 14-year-old Adrian Johnston lived with his mom until he was shot and killed in May. And just this Friday, a shooting just down the hall left a bullet hole in the door frame of the garbage room.
A man said to be Zammit's son, John Boukhalfa, 26, was investigated by police just before midnight Sunday in the Lakeshore Blvd. W. and Windermere Ave. area.
Eric Carty, 29, of Toronto, is wanted for first-degree murder in the December 6 shooting death of Eric Matthews in a North York parking lot.*
Shauna Wilton, a professor of political science at the University of Alberta, also highlighted the class divide which sees Thomas and his friends at the bottom of the social ladder and the wealthy Fat Controller at the top.Hey, Professor... here's a thunderbolt... why not write about an actual living, breathing child of privilege... who serially crapped all over his family, friends and professional associates?
"Basically, it was a column about Kwanzaa that put me on the path of political punditry. I submitted it as my usual Toronto Star religion column, and it got spiked."*
"The editor said, 'Look, Kwanzaa might be a fake holiday invented by a convicted felon, but why put a damper on people's fun?'"
“'After four years of drift, four years of denial, four years of division and discord — Mr. Harper, your time is up,' the Liberal leader harrumphed on Sept. 1."**********
"After four months of discussion, rarely has a political statement proven to be so laughingly wrong."
"...issues jubilant proclamation... 'Polar bears will apparently survive after all'."
**********Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation.*
Oyster® will combine high efficiency and survivability with low cost operations, maintenance and manufacture to produce reliable cost-competitive electricity from the waves for the first time.Scotland... it ain't all fried Mars bars and exquisitely executed head-butts.
"People were there in freezing conditions urinating on themselves and being held in lines like, essentially like animals."*
lead story... Copenhagen, Global Warming... we're all gonna die!!!Moving right along...
second item... Ontario, record snowfall... we're all gonna die!!!*
"...while at times was simplistic and pedantic, and much too long, was significant and heartening. Set aside the fact that it was, in several respects, Bushian in tone and content."*
"What made this speech notable was that the president did not go before a foreign audience and undermine the moral achievements of America, as he has repeatedly done in the past."
**********"Sounds like their version of our seal. So nice to see they are getting support from enviromentalists."*
The attacks in West Wickham, Kent, began in February. One motorist lost the use of their brakes as they pulled off their drive, and another's failed while they were driving into busy Bromley.*
Over the next seven months, the phantom vandal struck eight more times - indiscriminately hitting three Mercedes, a BMW, three Fords, a Nissan and an Austin.
The crime spree escalated from August onwards.
...in Oslo Thursday came with a price -- $60 million worth of security preparations. Norwegian police said they had more than 2,000 officers on the streets, along with snipers, canine patrols, and helicopters in the air, in the biggest security operation they have ever mounted for a single person.*
The Liberal-dominated Senate voted yesterday to remove the mandatory minimum sentence requirement for some drug offenders from Conservative legislation - for the first time substantially altering a key plank in the government's tough-on-crime agenda.*
The amendments come six months after the bill was passed in the House of Commons with the support of Liberal MPs, but only weeks before the Liberals lose their majority in the Senate, and with it their ability to change government legislation.
-- COPENHAGEN -- National aid budgets dedicated to reducing global poverty would be raided to establish a “climate fund” to help developing countries to adapt to climate change, under a British plan tabled yesterday in Copenhagen.But hey... that's just the way the infanticidal polar bear bounces, right Al?
Money earmarked for education or health would be diverted into projects such as solar panels and wind farms.
Oxfam estimates that diverting aid to the climate fund will mean at least 75 million fewer children attending school in developing countries and 8.6 million fewer people having access to HIV/Aids treatment.Oh.
"All industry and therefore work should stop. We should also ban fire. Fire is bad. And the wheel. (Especially the wheel. It might get people thinking about working, and thus, polluting)."*
"Besides, people weren't meant to live in cities. Humans, in their natural habitat, lived in caves. And hunted mammoths. Which is ok as long as you act noble and sad about it and don't use guns."
-- OTTAWA -- Key Liberal senators voted Wednesday to weaken the government's consumer product safety legislation — putting at risk the proposal to give Health Canada inspectors the power to recall dangerous products quickly.Somebody remind me... why exactly are we allowing these unelected pork-barrel bullies to subvert the will of Parliament?
The bill passed the House of Commons unanimously in June when the three opposition parties got behind the bill, drafted to replace 40-year old legislation universally identified as outdated.*
