(it tolls for thee)
The Ontario PCs say that they've uncovered internal emails, amid 20,000 documents released last Friday, that show that premier Dalton McGuinty's key advisers used that code name as a means to hide the true cost of nixing plans to build a generating station in Oakville.According to the Toronto Star, there was even one email from the Ministry of Energy asking government officials to stop emailing about the Mississauga plant closure last Fall."There is to be no email traffic on this issue," said the email."This is a campaign announcement not a government announcement."The cancellation of the two plants is expected to cost taxpayers upwards of $230 million and has been the subject of a contempt motion in the legislature with the opposition parties contending that the closures were politically motivated.
If I thought I would be run out of office, I would resign and prorogue the provincial legislature, too.
The U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, actually served as a meeting place to coordinate aid for the rebel-led insurgencies in the Middle East, according to Middle Eastern security officials.
Among the tasks performed inside the building was collaborating with Arab countries on the recruitment of fighters – including jihadists – to target Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
One must re-visit the vice-presidential debate in which Biden stated that aid was going to "moderate elements" to fight al-Qaeda in Syria. That is not the case:
“Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats,” the Times reports.
(with an enormous thumbs-up to 1389)
Related: if there were any doubts concerning accused murderer Nidal Hasan's intentions when he killed fourteen people at an army base in Fort Hood, Texas, this will put them to rest.
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
- Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($69 million)*
- AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.5 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
That’s just in the billions.
If a private company won't touch this "energy" source (or won't touch it without subsidies), you can pretty sure it's rubbish.
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Obama’s stunning lack of leadership fuels this catastrophe. Budgets are key to controlling spending.
Nonetheless, while the Republican House of Representatives has passed two budgets, Obama has permitted the Democratic Senate to violate the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act by refusing to endorse any budget whatsoever. Like an equatorial backwater patrolled by feral chickens, the United States of America has not adopted a budget since April 29, 2009.
Even worse, Obama has not exercised enough muscle to earn even one congressional vote for his latest budget. It failed unanimously, with every voting House and Senate member, Republican and Democrat alike, giving his blueprint a thumb down. The House killed Obama’s proposal 0–414. The Senate followed suit, 0–99. That Obama could not convince even one of Congress’s 535 members to support such pivotal legislation represents a canyonesque low in presidential ineptitude. How appropriate for a man who has driven America off a cliff, and still floors the accelerator as the nation speeds toward the jagged rocks below.
Obama also inculcates a culture of spending. If he tightened his belt, and demanded accountability among federal employees, Washington might emulate his model. Instead, the bacchanal roars on. Among infinite examples of this obscenity:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave an Idaho company $300,000 to promote caviar consumption.
“Keep Obama in president [sic],” one Lifeline beneficiary enthused last month. “He gave us a phone. He gonna do more.”
Romney is utterly correct in saying the US cannot afford four more years of Obama.
The revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro has suffered a massive stroke and has only weeks to live, a doctor has claimed.Jose Rafael Marquina said the 86-year-old was in a vegetative state and is 'moribund' at a house in western Havana.
The left are allegedly holding a vigil.
Rowan Atkinson is demanding a change in the law to halt the ‘creeping culture of censoriousness’ which has seen the arrest of a Christian preacher, a critic of Scientology and even a student making a joke.The Blackadder and Mr Bean star criticised the ‘new intolerance’ behind controversial legislation which outlaws ‘insulting words and behaviour’.Launching a fight for part of the Public Order Act to be repealed, he said it was having a ‘chilling effect on free expression and free protest’.He went on: ‘The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.’
The utter idiocy of arresting a sixteen year old boy for holding a sign or a man who joked about a gay horse must baffle some but what should be worrying is the right of discourse and expression being frittered away for not not even flimsy reasons. I cannot even call them reasons, not in the strictest sense of the word. They are trifles at best. We are limiting the mind, catering to the intolerant, dragging ourselves back into the Dark Ages.
A group of young people shouting, “Where are the priests? We’re going to burn them at the stake,” attacked the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida, Spain, leaving one teacher wounded.
According to the Salesian Press Office in Spain, the incident occurred at 1:20 p.m. local time on Oct. 18, when “some 100 young people entered the premises of the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida.” Nearly 1,000 K-12 students attend the school.
“Custodial workers and some teachers at the school tried to stop the group, but 10 of them were able to gain entrance to the school building, shouting insults against the institution, pushing staff members who were in their way and attempting to disrupt the normal school day,” the Salesians said.
Principal Marco Antonio Romero told the newspaper El Mundo that the young people’s intention was to pull down the crucifixes. “More public education and less crucifixes,” they shouted.
The attackers carried flags from the Spanish Civil War, shouted insults at the teachers and professors and tried to steal several laptop computers from classrooms, the newspaper reported.
The red, yellow and dark purple flags were the same ones used by the Republican faction, left-wing radicals and anarchists during Spain’s bloody, anti-clerical conflict that led to the deaths of thousands of priest, seminarians, religious and laypeople between 1936 and 1939.
During the attack on the school, one teacher suffered minor wounds while trying to keep the young people from entering her classroom.
This is the left and this is what they stand for.
The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, was finally released. Yet the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses—including rape and murder—Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer, simply for being Christian. Consider two stories alone, both of which occurred at the same time Rimsha’s blasphemy ordeal was making headlines around the world.On August 14, another Christian girl, 12-year-old Muqadas Kainat (which means “Holy Universe”) was ambushed in a field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men who “gang raped and murdered” her. At the time, her father was at a hospital visiting her sick mother. He and other family members began a frantic search, until a tip led them to the field where his daughter’s body lay. The postmortem revealed that she had been “gang raped and later strangled to death by five men.”Police, as usual, did not arrest anyone. As a Salem News report puts it, “Complicating matters is the fact that several Christian girls in this remote area have been raped and forced to both marry into the Muslim community and abandon their own religion, human rights groups report. … [T]here is a history in this part of Pakistan according to the Christian community, of local authorities failing to investigate cases of rape or other violence against Christians, often for fear of influential Muslims or militants.”
Women in binder costumes will protest outside of Pakistani embassies any day now.
So what about these reports? They could simply be false — the product of rumors, disinformation, or a combination of both. The RFA report is particularly difficult to reconcile with the imagery. Either or both reports may be based on a misunderstanding, such as the closure of another camp in the area that shut down, although this seems unlikely. The RFA report of a camp with 30,000 inmates would suggest that we’re talking about a very big camp, and no other camps in this area are nearly as big as Camp 22. It’s significant here that local inhabitants know exactly what Camp 22 is, and what happens there. The regime may have simply moved in new people to replace the ones who lived there before. It’s possible that these new workers aren’t prisoners, but merely citizens relocated from other places, but then how did the crops get planted and tended as Camp 22, having been cleansed of its work force, shut down for good during the planting season? The extrinsic evidence fails to corroborate the latest reports; however inconclusively, it also refutes them in part. I’ve reached out a few people who may be in a position to probe for more information.
All foreigners visiting North Korea are assigned guides. This is nominally said to be for the provision of information, but also serves a surveillance purpose.
However, the warning is disguised as being for the benefit of national security. According to the source, “The lecturers put it like this: ‘foreigners are envious of our ideology and will try to undermine it,’ and emphasize that ‘we should not communicate with them because they could be enemy forces in disguise trying to attack our socialist ways and spread bad ideas.’”
The source continued, “The lecture material even said, ‘Chinese people bring things like processed ham to eat, but that doesn’t suit our race and will upset our stomachs and lead to ill health.’” However, he pointed out, “There is already plenty of Chinese ham in the market, so I’m not sure who they think is going to believe that.”
Propaganda - it just doesn't work.
Former abductee Kaoru Hasuike has written a book that reveals the despair he went through during his 24 years trapped in North Korea, and how his family inspired him to keep living.Monday marked 10 years since Hasuike and four other abductees returned to Japan. The book, titled "Rachi to Ketsudan" (Abduction and Determination), was published by Shinchosha Co. Wednesday.Hasuike, 55, was abducted by North Korean agents on the beach of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, in July 1978. At first, stricken with fear and bewilderment, all he could do was scream, "Let me go home!" As it became clear there was little chance he could return home, thoughts of suicide crept into his mind.Detained in a so-called guesthouse in a valley, watched by security guards and surrounded by barbed wire, he was shown anti-Japan movies by North Korean officials who served as supervisors and instructors. Hasuike was forced to read a collection of papers written by Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea.Hasuike said he found a glimmer of hope amid this despair in May 1980 when he got married to Yukiko, who was abducted with him. They eventually had a daughter and a son. "The children became our reason for living," Hasuike said.Hasuike and his wife, 56, even lied to their children that the couple were "Koreans who returned from Japan," so the children would not suffer discrimination in the future. The children were strictly taught North Korean etiquette. When they turned 6, the children were taken to a dormitory about 150 kilometers away.At the time, many North Koreans were starving to death due to severe food shortages. Corn was the staple food at the children's dormitory. When they returned to the dormitory after spending a summer vacation at home, Hasuike made them take soybeans because he was concerned about whether they were getting enough nutrition. "Make sure you eat five or six soybeans twice a day after counting them," he told his children.Hasuike, who was involved in translation work, was torn while he rewrote Japanese newspaper articles in Korean.Usually, abduction-related stories were blacked out. But one day, he accidentally came across a photo that was not censored. The photo was for a story on the formation in Japan of an association of abductees' relatives in March 1997.In the photo, his father was tightly holding a portrait of Hasuike from his high school graduation album. His father's hair had thinned. Standing behind him was Hasuike's mother, who wore a tense expression. "They're alive," Hasuike recalled thinking.
Kyle Camp, a 10-year-old with Down syndrome, went missing Tuesday afternoon. Within hours, hundreds of friends and family had fanned out to find him.When he didn't turn up, they feared the worst.But 18 hours after he was last seen, Kyle was discovered safe and sound in a creek -- along with a mini expedition: His four puppies had "kept him warm overnight" in the woods until their barks gave up their location.
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