We want nothing less!! When will the legal suits start flying in Gore's and Suzuki's direction? We want nothing less!!! When will all the NGOs with the fat wads of Soros' money who were proclaiming in bold print in every publication possible about the AGW, be sued to kingdom come? We want nothing less!!! When will someone have the guts to sue each and every TV station that kept telling us of the AGW? We want nothing less!!!
A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report. .......
Saturday, January 16, 2010
America is "Last Man Standing" according to Geert Wilders
If there is one man that is hated with a vengence by the dark side, it is Geert Wilders. Maybe, some of the stuff he says is flaming, but do you know of any other way to get people's attention to what is really going on with the muslim quest to smother and extinguish our civilization with the help of the Left? It all started a couple of decades ago, bit by bit so you wouldn't notice it was happening, but of late the desire to bring the world under one caliphate has taken wing, so much so, that the islamists are coming right out and admitting it to be their sole desire to anyone who is inclined to remove the wax from their ears and pay heed. The struggle or jihad or fatwa or whatever the muslims want to call it, is played on many fields. One is terrorism which we all know about. The other is subtle but equally effective.... and that is waging a legal warfare through the misuse of International Law
Geert Wilders gave an impassioned speech a few months ago in the USA:
Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that w ould be an insult to Muslims........ read further
On January 20, The Toronto Zionist Centre will be holding a solidarity rally for Wilders. I believe the inimitable Five Feet of Fury will let you hear some of her fury if you are within earshot.
Other blogs talking about this rally:
MooseAndSquirrel BlogofWalker
h/t: PamB for reminding me of Wilders' speech.
There is a new kind of warfare being waged across the globe. The antagonists in the struggle are employing the weapon of their adversaries - the rule of law - in a strategy called “Lawfare” which involves the misuse of the law to achieve objectives that cannot be achieved militarily. Lawfare can be undertaken by any group of actors of any nationality or religion, but presently Lawfare is being pursued largely by Islamic ideologues, their supporters, and their financiers who sympathize with the actions of Islamic militants.....Many of you might have heard that the courageous Geert Wilders will have to face this means of warfare, waged by his own govt. His crime? Speaking the Truth. Truth that many of us can see but an equal number of us deny seeing
Geert Wilders gave an impassioned speech a few months ago in the USA:
Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that w ould be an insult to Muslims........ read further
On January 20, The Toronto Zionist Centre will be holding a solidarity rally for Wilders. I believe the inimitable Five Feet of Fury will let you hear some of her fury if you are within earshot.
Other blogs talking about this rally:
MooseAndSquirrel BlogofWalker
h/t: PamB for reminding me of Wilders' speech.
Here's proof that our soldiers are mean, mean, mean - Part I
h/t: PamB : Those soldier boys of ours are really, really mean!!! Forget about handing over Taliban murderers to the Afghanistan govt. instead of marrying them off to our lovely female lefties, or maybe even to those gay guys who were marching with the Hamas supporters. That is peanuts compared to this.
Here in this pic you can plainly see that they are torturing these Afghan kids until they talk and lead them to the Taliban hideouts.
Here a spunky tot is biting a soldier who was trying to torture him. His father looks on and says "Bite him again, bite him"
And lookee here!! This mean soldier is making a kid hang by his fingertips
Here in this pic you can plainly see that they are torturing these Afghan kids until they talk and lead them to the Taliban hideouts.
Here a spunky tot is biting a soldier who was trying to torture him. His father looks on and says "Bite him again, bite him"
And lookee here!! This mean soldier is making a kid hang by his fingertips
Friday, January 15, 2010
A big dollop of Sarah Palin for those who ...
want to see what the next Prez of the USA has to say. All others can walk briskly by.
Palin with Hannity
Palin with Hannity
Hey there Your Holiness....
are you now rooting for Iran so they can get rid of Jews?? And, don't tell us that you have no influence in Italy's politics. What is it with Italians and the Irish that they have this unreasonable hatred towards Jews alongwith the Billion+ muslims. At times like these, I am truly ashamed to be a Catholic.
....Despite international sanctions against Iran, Italian exports to the Islamic regime rose 17% in 2008 to 2.17 billion euros, according to the Italian statistical office. For the past three years, Italy has been Iran’s No. 1 European trading partner.
....Despite international sanctions against Iran, Italian exports to the Islamic regime rose 17% in 2008 to 2.17 billion euros, according to the Italian statistical office. For the past three years, Italy has been Iran’s No. 1 European trading partner.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Pat Connell lets off steam
h/t: vlad tepes blog
vlad tepes has more on Anjem Choudary and the police protection he is now getting at taxpayer's cost. UK under New Labour, there is no place like it.
vlad tepes has more on Anjem Choudary and the police protection he is now getting at taxpayer's cost. UK under New Labour, there is no place like it.
You heard it here first, remember that
There's talk down south that the grassroots movement, the Tea Party Nation will be an additional party in the 2012 elections and that they will most probably nominate Palin to represent them. You heard it here first, remember that.
Tea Party Nation news release
Palin appeared yesterday on the Glenn Beck's show. She is improving, no doubt about it.
Tea Party Nation news release
Palin appeared yesterday on the Glenn Beck's show. She is improving, no doubt about it.
Madness personified
This is UK, where most Canadians have their roots. Aren't you glad your ancestors decided to make Canada their home?
With the building works nearly over, Julian and Samantha Mosedale and their three children were looking forward to moving back into the home of their dreams.
But their hopes have turned into a nightmare because a group of Romanians occupied the property over Christmas.
To add insult to injury, police told them that they were being 'racist' for questioning the squatters' right to live in Britain on benefits. The unwanted guests have changed the locks at the three-bedroom terrace house and moved in their own furniture. read further
With the building works nearly over, Julian and Samantha Mosedale and their three children were looking forward to moving back into the home of their dreams.
But their hopes have turned into a nightmare because a group of Romanians occupied the property over Christmas.
To add insult to injury, police told them that they were being 'racist' for questioning the squatters' right to live in Britain on benefits. The unwanted guests have changed the locks at the three-bedroom terrace house and moved in their own furniture. read further
Kick me if I am way out with this....
but do you think it would make sense to bring Haiti within our country's fold ? I thought I had heard, some time ago, about Canada possibly playing bountiful with some Caribbean island and making it a part of Canada just like Puerto Rico is a part of the USA.
Haiti, according to people who have been there, is a beautiful island and besides the few thousands of it's natives who believe in black magic and stuff like that, most Haitians are simple, friendly people. Making Haiti a part of Canada would not only benefit Haitians, it would benefit Canadians as well, as we would be able to either holiday or even retire to our own little sunny island and keep our money on Canadian soil. There are several ways in which Canada would be able to enrich this poorest part in the Western hemisphere. Giving incentives and tax breaks to Canadian companies to set up shop over there would be just one of them. Having Canadian farmers venture into Haiti and develop miles and miles of farm land usage all year round would mean win-win for Haitians as well as the venturers. No shortage of labor for the farmers and jobs aplenty for the natives.
Think about it.
Haiti, according to people who have been there, is a beautiful island and besides the few thousands of it's natives who believe in black magic and stuff like that, most Haitians are simple, friendly people. Making Haiti a part of Canada would not only benefit Haitians, it would benefit Canadians as well, as we would be able to either holiday or even retire to our own little sunny island and keep our money on Canadian soil. There are several ways in which Canada would be able to enrich this poorest part in the Western hemisphere. Giving incentives and tax breaks to Canadian companies to set up shop over there would be just one of them. Having Canadian farmers venture into Haiti and develop miles and miles of farm land usage all year round would mean win-win for Haitians as well as the venturers. No shortage of labor for the farmers and jobs aplenty for the natives.
Think about it.
BTs featured in NYTimes blogrunner
As everyone knows The New York Times has become a hard-left newspaper. However, in the last week to 9 days alone they have featured some of these blogs from our listing at Blogging Tories in their blog runner. I know that knowing this is not going to send a tingle up your leg as you have more important things on your plate to write and care about and would not give two figs if the NYTimes featured you or not ... but I just thought I would keep a record of these. Cheers!!!
SDA
Gay and Right
DamianPenny
Gay And Right
The Canadian Sentinel
ChuckerCanuck
The Phantom Observer
SDA
Gay and Right
DamianPenny
Gay And Right
The Canadian Sentinel
ChuckerCanuck
The Phantom Observer
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Mini-Ice Age begins
h/t: BarryH - Now this is something I can believe is happening, not the AGW crap. Freezing temperatures in Florida and Las Vegas! Snow in Texas ! Snow pellets in the Middle East !!
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this........
Read further
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this........
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The most intriguing Prez to date
h/t: Irene
Hey... call me what you will. I am simply a very inquisitive creature. I want to know more about Obama's eligibility to be Prez and all the nitty gritty details of his birth. Does that make me a whackjob or racist or what have you? Fine... so be it. This guy is the most intriguing Prez of the USA, and I for one would like to gloat over my American friends if it ever comes about, as a proven fact, that he was never eligible to be their Prez. It will say more about the American people than it will say about Obama.
Here's a long article from the Australian media with enough links to satisfy the curiosity cats amongst us. Listen... at least I admit to give in to my inquisitiveness, an inherent human trait. You are free to be above it all and not bother to read it.
Hey... call me what you will. I am simply a very inquisitive creature. I want to know more about Obama's eligibility to be Prez and all the nitty gritty details of his birth. Does that make me a whackjob or racist or what have you? Fine... so be it. This guy is the most intriguing Prez of the USA, and I for one would like to gloat over my American friends if it ever comes about, as a proven fact, that he was never eligible to be their Prez. It will say more about the American people than it will say about Obama.
Here's a long article from the Australian media with enough links to satisfy the curiosity cats amongst us. Listen... at least I admit to give in to my inquisitiveness, an inherent human trait. You are free to be above it all and not bother to read it.
Haitians need help
Red Cross Canada has already started sending batches of trained volunteers to the striken island where the latest reports say more than 100,000 have lost their lives. Salvation Army Canada has also started rescue and relief operations and are coordinating efforts in Canada for collecting items that the Haitians will need. Salvation Army link below also has a first-hand account from one of the SA directors who is stationed in Haiti.
Red Cross Canada
Salvation Army Canada
news story I
news story II
Red Cross Canada
Salvation Army Canada
news story I
news story II
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Dry runs or just panicky flight crews?
I am supposed to be flying away for my holiday in a few weeks, but now I am beginning to get cold feet. Too many incidents coming to light that begs the question: Coincidence ?
Standing in my kitchen, one of the agents said, “What I can tell you is this: Mohammed Atta was one of the passengers on that flight with James Woods.” (Apparently, this information has never been made public.)
Michelle Malkin - AirTran Flight 39 Atlanta to SF
Northwest Airlines Jan 12 Amsterdam to Detroit
Atlanta to Houston
Terrorists likely to enter USA via Canada
Standing in my kitchen, one of the agents said, “What I can tell you is this: Mohammed Atta was one of the passengers on that flight with James Woods.” (Apparently, this information has never been made public.)
Michelle Malkin - AirTran Flight 39 Atlanta to SF
Northwest Airlines Jan 12 Amsterdam to Detroit
Atlanta to Houston
Terrorists likely to enter USA via Canada
Glenn Beck show
Beck making sense of the unemployment numbers and what is hidden from figures shown. Also, compares Obama's moves with Chavez's socialist moves in Venezuela.
show of Jan 11
show of Jan 11
Do you feel any sympathy for this man?
I don't. Wild animals should live in their natural habitat, the wild. Not even in zoos. Maybe zoos were needed in the past to teach children about the animal kingdom. In my opinion, zoos are now obsolete and rightly so. We can see and learn about any and all creatures on the internet. Free the animals, they were not meant to be behind bars. Even murderers go free but we cage up these animals from birth to death.
Over the weekend, a 66 year old man from southern Ontario, near London, was mauled to death by his pet Siberian tiger when he approached the animal to feed it.
A few years ago, a less tragic event had taken place at the same property when a 10 year old boy was attacked by a tiger. The boy had serious head injuries and had to be hospitalized for weeks.
There should be a law against keeping such dangerous animals in residential areas.
Over the weekend, a 66 year old man from southern Ontario, near London, was mauled to death by his pet Siberian tiger when he approached the animal to feed it.
A few years ago, a less tragic event had taken place at the same property when a 10 year old boy was attacked by a tiger. The boy had serious head injuries and had to be hospitalized for weeks.
There should be a law against keeping such dangerous animals in residential areas.
Nutty air travellers and nuttier tribunal
Some airlines make overweight people pay for two seats and some airlines even refuse them outright because of their weight. Why not have people allergic to nuts, book the entire plane to themselves, nut-free? I can sympathize with people having nut allergies, as I have one too, although it's to a different food item, but to demand that there be buffer zones on airplanes to keep them safe from an allergy attack ?
.......This case arose from complaints by two passengers with nut allergies, an adult woman and a young girl (technically the application was filed by her mother on her behalf ). The woman suggested that Air Canada should have to make all its flights completely nut-free -- a total nut ban, as it were. The mother suggested that when it is carrying a passenger with a nut allergy, Air Canada should have to make a cabin-wide announcement telling all passengers that no one is allowed to eat nuts or products containing nuts; she also suggested the airline should refrain from serving almonds in business class (as is current practice), even if the passenger with the allergy is seated at the other end of the plane..........
Monday, January 11, 2010
Totally useless wind farms
h/t: Irene
All they do is kill thousands upon thousands of birds. Where's that useless PETA when you need them? Another lefty moronic idea is probably making a headlong dive towards the garbage bin, much like all such ideas coming from same sources.
The cold weather has been accompanied by high pressure and a lack of wind, which meant that only 0.2pc of a possible 5pc of the UK's energy was generated by wind turbines over the last few days.
Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG), gave warning that this could turn into a crisis when the UK is reliant on 6,400 turbines accounting for a quarter of all UK electricity demand over the next 10 years....
All they do is kill thousands upon thousands of birds. Where's that useless PETA when you need them? Another lefty moronic idea is probably making a headlong dive towards the garbage bin, much like all such ideas coming from same sources.
The cold weather has been accompanied by high pressure and a lack of wind, which meant that only 0.2pc of a possible 5pc of the UK's energy was generated by wind turbines over the last few days.
Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG), gave warning that this could turn into a crisis when the UK is reliant on 6,400 turbines accounting for a quarter of all UK electricity demand over the next 10 years....
Sarah Palin to join Fox News
This year is turning out to a financial bonanza for yours truly. I have won another bet. I had bet with those in my family with heavy pockets, that before she runs for the top job, she will get herself in something on TV, because this smart woman has seen how it helps to be a recognized name and face on TV and how easy it is to manipulate people from the idiot box. Go Sarah Go !!!! More power to you !!!
2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is joining Fox News as a contributor, the news channel announced Monday.
The former Alaska governor, whose book, Going Rogue: An American Life, became a bestseller weeks before it was released and remains No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, has signed a multi-year deal to offer her political commentary and analysis across all Fox News platforms, including Fox Business Channel, FoxNews.com and Fox News Radio.
She will also participate in special event political programming for Fox Broadcasting.
"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news," Palin said in a written release.
Palin will also host periodic episodes of Fox News Channel's "Real American Stories," a series exploring inspirational real-life tales of overcoming adversity throughout the American landscape that will debut in 2010..........
2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is joining Fox News as a contributor, the news channel announced Monday.
The former Alaska governor, whose book, Going Rogue: An American Life, became a bestseller weeks before it was released and remains No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, has signed a multi-year deal to offer her political commentary and analysis across all Fox News platforms, including Fox Business Channel, FoxNews.com and Fox News Radio.
She will also participate in special event political programming for Fox Broadcasting.
"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news," Palin said in a written release.
Palin will also host periodic episodes of Fox News Channel's "Real American Stories," a series exploring inspirational real-life tales of overcoming adversity throughout the American landscape that will debut in 2010..........
Toronto is a haven no more
There is not a day that goes by when I don't regret the decision my family took to make Toronto our home, when we migrated to Canada. Why we didn't decide on Alberta or anywhere else but Toronto, I don't know. In Toronto, one is constantly reminded of how powerful the muslim community is becoming in Canada. They have the time and the money to organize marches and gatherings on public property, and they scream into their microphones their hatred for Canada and the USA and a hatred for their enemies that you would have thought they left behind when they migrated here to become Canadians.
Why do these people have to bring to Canada their wars and battles and the bitterness they feel towards every moving creature they consider to be an infidel. The large majority of Canadians want to live in oneness and harmony but the simple desire to do so is denied us because of the curse prevalent in the religious Canadian muslims. One community and only one is capable of disrupting the peace and security that was herebefore seen as the symbolic force of Canada, and that community is the muslim community. Political correctness has brought us to this point of no return. We have to admit this before trying to correct the madness we see in our streets and in our newspapers.
A Toronto man who earned a six-figure salary as a computer programmer appeared in court on Monday for the first day of his trial on charges of plotting to attack Canada's main stock exchange and other targets.
Shareef Abdelhaleem, 34, is accused of conspiring to bomb Canada's main stock exchange, spy agency offices and a military base in order to try to provoke Canada's withdrawal from Afghanistan.....
Why do these people have to bring to Canada their wars and battles and the bitterness they feel towards every moving creature they consider to be an infidel. The large majority of Canadians want to live in oneness and harmony but the simple desire to do so is denied us because of the curse prevalent in the religious Canadian muslims. One community and only one is capable of disrupting the peace and security that was herebefore seen as the symbolic force of Canada, and that community is the muslim community. Political correctness has brought us to this point of no return. We have to admit this before trying to correct the madness we see in our streets and in our newspapers.
A Toronto man who earned a six-figure salary as a computer programmer appeared in court on Monday for the first day of his trial on charges of plotting to attack Canada's main stock exchange and other targets.
Shareef Abdelhaleem, 34, is accused of conspiring to bomb Canada's main stock exchange, spy agency offices and a military base in order to try to provoke Canada's withdrawal from Afghanistan.....
Smart Profiling is the answer
Smart profiling at airports will help you arrive in one piece unless you are the person hot on the trail of those 72 virgins. Good article here in the Calgary Herald by Mark Milke who is the research director for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
....Only in North America do we maintain the fiction profiling doesn't occur. But it does. In 2005, I was in Toronto for an Israel-bound flight. There were several obvious layers of security specific to the El Al check-in but the process was relatively speedy. Had I been a young male from Yemen, I'd have been asked a few extra questions and likely pulled aside.
For my flight back to Canada, at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, vehicles must stop at an outer perimeter far from the terminal building. Once through, more screening takes place, including opened luggage searched by hand with plenty of questions from young but intense security agents. I felt safer at Ben Gurion than anyone with a sense of awareness would at our airports, where we bunch up in security lineups that crawl -- perfect, slow-moving targets.
Sometimes the profiling is more obvious. In December 2008, on a Casablanca-Calgary flight with a Frankfurt connection, a police car arrived on the tarmac to inspect departing passengers.
The police were there to prevent anyone who might have dumped identification during the flight then claiming asylum. So before anyone could descend the stairs, the police first looked for and then at passports. Except that as a pale male with blue eyes and obviously not Moroccan, the German cops waved me through without even a cursory glance at my identification.
The Israeli process is intense and German screening might offend but both are efficient for everyone, profiled or not. It beats North American airports where our legitimate aspirations for social and political equality is mistakenly applied to what is in effect airport police work, and where not all approach the terminal, airplane or cockpit with equal and benign intentions........
....Only in North America do we maintain the fiction profiling doesn't occur. But it does. In 2005, I was in Toronto for an Israel-bound flight. There were several obvious layers of security specific to the El Al check-in but the process was relatively speedy. Had I been a young male from Yemen, I'd have been asked a few extra questions and likely pulled aside.
For my flight back to Canada, at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, vehicles must stop at an outer perimeter far from the terminal building. Once through, more screening takes place, including opened luggage searched by hand with plenty of questions from young but intense security agents. I felt safer at Ben Gurion than anyone with a sense of awareness would at our airports, where we bunch up in security lineups that crawl -- perfect, slow-moving targets.
Sometimes the profiling is more obvious. In December 2008, on a Casablanca-Calgary flight with a Frankfurt connection, a police car arrived on the tarmac to inspect departing passengers.
The police were there to prevent anyone who might have dumped identification during the flight then claiming asylum. So before anyone could descend the stairs, the police first looked for and then at passports. Except that as a pale male with blue eyes and obviously not Moroccan, the German cops waved me through without even a cursory glance at my identification.
The Israeli process is intense and German screening might offend but both are efficient for everyone, profiled or not. It beats North American airports where our legitimate aspirations for social and political equality is mistakenly applied to what is in effect airport police work, and where not all approach the terminal, airplane or cockpit with equal and benign intentions........
Sunday, January 10, 2010
BTs, do you need help to repel that freak of a blog linking to yours ?
All you have to do is entice Patrick Ross of The Nexus of Assholery to comment on your blog, and presto... that freak of a blog that links to you with irritating commentary will stop doing so. If you are more concerned about the 5 cents more that you will make because of the traffic generated, than ignore this post and continue making those extra cents to your heart's content.
Here we had a kingsize canister of Lysol in Patrick Ross and we were not aware of it. Better late than never, eh?! However, I really don't see why the freak is still linking to Sandy of Just Politics, Stephen Taylor and other Blogging Tories. I am sure Ross has commented on those blogs too, sometime or the other. Oh well .... logic has never ever taken the trouble to visit that freak, not once.
That blog is allergic to Ross and had this to say today :
Here we had a kingsize canister of Lysol in Patrick Ross and we were not aware of it. Better late than never, eh?! However, I really don't see why the freak is still linking to Sandy of Just Politics, Stephen Taylor and other Blogging Tories. I am sure Ross has commented on those blogs too, sometime or the other. Oh well .... logic has never ever taken the trouble to visit that freak, not once.
That blog is allergic to Ross and had this to say today :
OK, HERE'S THE DEAL: You'll notice that, where there used to be a link up there under "not so much", there is no link anymore. And that's because of a new policy of mine.
I will no longer link to (or I will remove links to) any blog posts where one Patrick "Twatsy" Ross has commenting privileges, for the simple reason that Twatsy shows up to comment for the sole purpose of leaving links back to his site to pimp his crap and boost his blog stats.
If he wants more visitors, he's welcome to do that by publishing stuff that isn't execrable, eliminationist crap. But it's tiring to see Twatsy suddenly pop up in someone's comments section, only to say something stupid before linking back to himself.
So there you go, Balby and Stageleft. As long as Twatsy gets to comment over at your abode, you get no more links from me. I have no interest in pimping his creepy, racist rubbish.
Update on the fate of Bill C-268
MP Joy Smith clarifies that Bill C-268 progress will have virtually no impact in light of the prorogation. She informs that Private Members' Bills since 2003 have been carried over between sessions of Parliament and as Bill C-268 was passed in the House of Commons the next step will be at the Second Reading in the Senate on March 3, 2010.
Unfortunately, because of the delay tactics that Senator Anne Cools decided to play to full hilt, the Bill did not pass before the Olympics as was desired by many of us actively working to rid Canada of sexual crimes and enslavement of children and the vulnerable.
Now, to ensure that this Bill passes the Senate without further delays, please take the time to send an email to the Senate to suppot Bill C-268. Please also send a separate email to Senator Don Plett who is working on a campaign within the Senate to support the Bill.
Senator Platt's email: plettd@sen.parl.gc.ca
Unfortunately, because of the delay tactics that Senator Anne Cools decided to play to full hilt, the Bill did not pass before the Olympics as was desired by many of us actively working to rid Canada of sexual crimes and enslavement of children and the vulnerable.
Now, to ensure that this Bill passes the Senate without further delays, please take the time to send an email to the Senate to suppot Bill C-268. Please also send a separate email to Senator Don Plett who is working on a campaign within the Senate to support the Bill.
Senator Platt's email: plettd@sen.parl.gc.ca
January 2010 declared NS and HT Prevention Month by Presidential Decree
h/t: NaomiB
President Obama has declared January 2010 as the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month by a decree which he signed on January 4.
The proclaimation states:
President Obama has declared January 2010 as the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month by a decree which he signed on January 4.
The proclaimation states:
.....The victims of modern slavery have many faces. They are men and women, adults and children. Yet, all are denied basic human dignity and freedom. Victims can be abused in their own countries, or find themselves far from home and vulnerable. Whether they are trapped in forced sexual or labor exploitation, human trafficking victims cannot walk away, but are held in service through force, threats, and fear. All too often suffering from horrible physical and sexual abuse, it is hard for them to imagine that there might be a place of refuge.....Related: The Human Trafficking Project blogspot
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