Global warming - ...............Canadafreepress

Earmarks going online in stages

Caroline Glick

Fjordman-why Europeans should support Israel............Brussels journal

Looks like the surge is having a positive effect in Iraq-...............Richard Miniter- Pajamasmedia

Mark Steyn-Global warming- .............Western Standard

"M. Dion is right that "climate change" is happening. That's because "climate change" is always happening. There is no natural state of global climate that would be otherwise unchanging, century in, century out, if only we'd eschew the Chevy Suburban and line-dry our briefs. So the first question is whether the increase of 0.7 of a degree Celsius or so in the course of the 20th century is out of the ordinary. The second question is whether, if so, man is responsible. The third is whether, if so, reducing CO2 emissions will make any difference.

On the first question: I think it's very hard to argue that that smidgenette of an uptick is out of line with various other fluctuations in the centuries since the Little Ice Age. On the second: gee, I dunno. Fourteen thousand years ago, a local geomorphologist informs me, Edmonton was under an ice sheet a mile thick. But then the ice sheet went away. Now that's what I call a warming trend, and, unless those mammoths were driving Chevy club-cab pick-ups, no selfish North American consumers with unsustainable lifestyles were involved. On the third question: the solutions proposed by M. Dion will make no difference. Had America and Australia ratified Kyoto, and had Canada and Europe complied with it instead of just pretending to, by 2050 the treaty would have reduced global warming by 0.07C--a figure that would be statistically undetectable within annual climate variation. But, in return for this meaningless gesture, American GDP in 2010 would be lower by US$97 billion to $397 billion--and those are the U.S. Energy Information Administration's somewhat optimistic models. That seems a lot of bucks for a damp squib of a bang........."

Crime beat- mortgage fraud

"Mortgage Fraud Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) referred to law enforcement by financial institutions increased from 17,127 SARs in Fiscal Year 2004 to 35,617 SARs in Fiscal Year 2006, reflecting estimated losses of $946 million. FBI Mortgage Fraud investigations have focused on large-scale frauds perpetrated by organized crime and industry insiders, including attorneys, brokers, appraisers, and realtors. Since September 2002, the number and types of investigations have increased from 436 to 1,036. Of these current cases, 51% involve expected losses in excess of $1 million, and 57% involve our federally insured financial institutions as victims."

Crime beat-theft and fraud

"Theft and fraud is costing Canadian retailers $8-million a day or more than $3-billion a year, according to the Retail Council of Canada.

The Council says retail organized crime is a "serious problem" and includes everything from shoplifting, container theft, counterfeiting and refund fraud, to the use of fraudulent credit, debit and gift cards and identity theft".

Rush Limbaugh- global warming

Another dispatch by Michael Yon in Iraq-.......... Ernie is dead

Janet Daley-........" If the eco-snobs had their way, none of us would go anywhere"

Melanie Phillips- global warming

Professor Paul Reiter, a world authority on mosquito-borne diseases, was one of the 2500 claimed by the IPCC as its famous consensus. Yet as he said on the C4 film, he had tried to remove his name from its list of experts because of his concerns that the IPCC process in his area of knowledge was corrupt, only to find that he remained listed. It was only after a further concerted battle that he finally managed to get his name taken off. How many other scientists who do not support the IPCC’s methods or conclusions are also included in this ‘consensus’? And how many of these ‘world’s leading scientists’ are indeed scientists of any distinction at all?

Last year Professor Reiter gave evidence to the House of Lords select committee considering the economics of climate change. His evidence furnished a devastating account of the corruption of the IPCC process in his field — its use of ‘experts’ who were nothing of the kind and its promulgation of lies about mosquito-borne diseases (which have also been promulgated by Al Gore as An Inconvenient Truth). Professor Reiter’s evidence can be read in its entirety here. But in view of its significance, I reproduce here a large chunk of it: the highlighted passages are my own emphasis. .....


As I have been saying for the past 19 years, the climate change scam is a scandal of immense proportions involving the integrity of science and its betrayal by a small number of highly motivated individuals, whose viciousness when cornered knows no bounds. But like all totalitarian movements, this one has to be resisted — and if sufficient people of courage and integrity do so, truth will eventually win over lies.

Low Lifes- ..............Decorated soldier stunned by nasty bar beating

Global Warming- Planet Gore

The price of spin.................

Perhaps they can focus on Maintiens le Droit-the crooks are doing $40 billion + in Canada and the terrorists are here but not wearing neon signs to identify themselves. It might be an idea for the RCMP to concentrate on putting the crooks away instead of becoming a paper shuffling bureaucracy and the media should do some investigative work for a change instead of regurgitating press conferences. Canadians might be better served if both institutions did their jobs properly..

Statscan releases 2006 Census

B.C. man linked to terror camp

Crime beat - hackers

"Three computer hackers from India were indicted on charges of conspiracy, computer and wire fraud, securities fraud and aggravated identity theft in a scheme that U.S. authorities said bilked scores of customers with online U.S. brokerage accounts....

At least 60 accounts at nine brokerage firms were infiltrated, authorities said. One unlucky customer who left for a five-day Alaskan fishing trip with $180,000 in his online brokerage account returned to find a deficit of $200,000, thanks to trading by the intruders, U.S. authorities charged."

Crime beat- Identity theft

"Police say 41-year old Adentuji Idowu and his associates are suspected of canvassing neighborhoods looking for vacant homes and then using the addresses from those homes to receive credit cards and other material issued in the names of identity theft victims.

Idowu and an accomplice, Joshua Humphrey, were arrested on March 2nd after undercover deputies patrolling the 8100 block of SW 7th Court in North Lauderdale watched as Humphrey's blue, four-door Pontiac Grand-Prix drove up to the mailbox of a vacant home. Police say Idowu reached out from the passenger window, grabbed the mail out of the box and then drove off."

Report on the murders of 4 RCMP Officers at Mayerthorpe

"After a two-year wait, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has completed its workplace health and safety investigation into the deaths of the four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe on March 3, 2005.
Since that tragic day, several initiatives have been ongoing to find answers and determine appropriate responses. One of these was the HRSDC investigation, which is a standard procedure with workplace fatalities. Their work was aided by the findings of the RCMP Hazardous Occurrence Investigation Team (HOIT).
As a result of the recommendations put forward, the Mayerthorpe detachment was the first in Alberta to receive advanced body armour to minimize risk against long gunfire; the province-wide directive will make sure that all detachments are as safe as possible against this threat."



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The RCMP are still underfunded and understaffed after 13 years of the Liberal reign.There are some Liberals that want to make law and order a plank in the Liberal's platform for the next election. They had 13 years to deal with law and order.They were more interested in the Musical ride than actual law and order.The RCMP were understaffed by about 2200 Officers and CSIS went from 2800 people to 2000.Too little, too late

Michelle Malkin- the Surrender Party

Thomas Sowell- "Supporting the troops"

Donato- Municipal budget

Weston- Enviro wallet attack

Investing terror free-............Frank Gaffney

Teetering in Tehran

Russia says the launch of Iran's nuclear power plant will be delayed because Tehran is behind in making construction payments. Two possibilities come immediately to mind, both of them encouraging.

First, if Tehran is truly delinquent on its payments to the state-run Atomstroiexport, it's another confirmation that the regime's hold on the country has grown tenuous and that needed change could come with light prodding in the right places.

Second, it's possible that this is merely a way for Russia to save face while it backs off its aid to a rogue nation it has supported. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran's strong denial that it isn't up to date on payments lends some credibility to this theory.

Either way, the benefits accrue to the U.S., the West, the Iranian people and civilization in general. The mullah-run Iranian regime is a danger to peace and prosperity. Its end cannot arrive too soon and in fact might not be far off, according to some observers.