
Yep. Me. Moving. This weekend. Finally got a bigger piece of the pie; took a whole lot of tryin' just to get up the hill and all that.
Don't expect much, if any, posting for a while.
I'll be back.
A report by ABC News claims that Hezbollah sleeper cells may be active in Canada with the intent of targeting Jewish institutions, but CSIS has yet to comment on the report.
ABC News says North American intelligence agents have been tracking the movements of Hezbollah outside the group's base in Lebanon.
Hezbollah is apparently seeking revenge on Israel for assassinating its military commander, Imad Mugniyah. He was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, and the Israeli government has denied any involvement.
The U.S. and Canadian intelligence agents, who are not named, told ABC News that suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa and synagogues in Ottawa and Toronto.
'Media Reform' event promotes government control of speech - WASHINGTON, June 18, 2008
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid, the only conservative media analyst reporting from the far-left “National Conference for Media Reform” in Minneapolis, is warning that “media reform” is a cover for 'unleashing the powers of the federal government on those who use television and radio to resist and challenge the liberal-left agenda.'
“It will be carried forward in the name of media ‘fairness,’ the ‘public interest,’ stopping ‘media consolidation,’ Internet ‘neutrality,’ and stopping harmful ‘hate speech,’” Kincaid says. “But it will leave the First Amendment in tatters and the federal government in control, and conservatives will have to resort to using the mostly liberal courts to get their rights back. Make no mistake - this is what they mean by ‘change.’”
A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.
The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure.
After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Doctors took cells from the man's own defence system that were found to attack the cancer cells best, cloned them and injected back into his body, in a process known as "immunotherapy". After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Experts said that the case could mark a landmark in the treatment of cancer.
House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.They oppose exploration and development and want to have the state control the refineries. Just like a Communist, Islamist or other totalitarian-type country.Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.
A Canadian citizen who admitted he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese navy was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in federal prison, in the first sentencing for a newly defined intellectual property crime.
Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 44, was sentenced on the rare charge of committing economic espionage against the United States. It's the most serious crime under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 and involves stealing trade secrets to benefit a foreign government.
Meng, an engineer, is a Chinese national with Canadian citizenship who lives near San Francisco.
While Terri, 47, and her nine-year-old daughter Bindi made an impressive show of girl power at the Daytime Emmy awards in the US, the mother-of-two's musclebound appearance stunned her fans.
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Despite always maintaining good physical fitness, Irwin has increased her daily routine in preparation for a research trip in far north Queensland next week, where she will be expected to tag more than 30 wild crocodiles.
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"She's picking up where Steve left off and has to be physically fit to keep up with the boys," Stainton said.
NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
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In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.
“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”
Boxun News, a Chinese-language Web site based outside China, reported that an unnamed expert has claimed that there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground military installation. The news of this nuclear explosion has raised questions about the cause of the earthquake.
Mr. He, a local resident, stated that when the earthquake occurred on May 12, people saw something erupt from the top of a mountain next to the valley, "It looked like toothpaste being squeezed out," said He. "No, it wasn't [magma]. It was these concrete pieces. The eruption lasted about three minutes."
According to a China News Services (CNS) report on May 31, 2008, paramedics from People's Liberation Army (PLA) hospitals and psychologists from Beijing onsite May 23 found concrete debris at the bottom of a valley near the epicenter. The half-mile-wide valley was covered with debris 10 - 20 inches thick, covering the valley floor for almost 1.5 miles.
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The thickness of the concrete pieces seemed to match that used in China's underground military bases, according to Boxun's expert. He explained that while there are documented cases that earthquakes cause volcanic eruptions, there are no accounts of eruptions ejecting concrete.
Based on the CNS report and timing of the eruption at the scene, there seemed to be no evidence of natural volcanic activity. The expert stated he was certain a nuclear explosion shattered the underground concrete structures, hurling debris into the air.
FLUSHING, New York City—Two attacks on Falun Gong practitioners occurred on Sunday and Monday of this week. The first attack was in Brooklyn on Sunday and another similar attack occurred in Flushing, Queens on Monday.
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Police arrested a man on Monday in Flushing, Queens after he struck and broke the camera of Hongyi Pan who has been reporting for The Epoch Times on recent attacks on Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing. The incident took place around noon on Main Street. According to Hongyi, pedestrians told him that a man was acting crazily and was aggressively grabbing newspapers from Epoch Times distributors.
The man was said to be angry that his photo had been published on the cover of the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times in a section showing those involved in a hate protest against a Falun Dafa parade.
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A similar attack occurred in Brooklyn on Sunday this week. Qiu Wei, a man known to be a local Chinese community leader, allegedly assaulted Falun Gong practitioner John Yu with a metal steering-wheel lock.
The father of a Mississauga teen killed last year has been charged today with first-degree murder in connection with her death.
Muhammad Parvez, 57, appeared in a Brampton courtroom today where he was officially charged. The charge is an indication investigators believe the girl’s killing was pre-meditated.
Parvez was arrested in early December after his daughter Aqsa, 16, was found strangled in the family's Mississauga home.
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The death drew international attention after her friends said she had argued with her father over her desire to shun the hijab, a traditional Muslim scarf that covers the head and shoulders.
Conservative allegations that Elections Canada tipped off the media and the opposition Liberals to an RCMP raid on Tory Party headquarters so troubled Canada's Chief Electoral Officer that he sought ways to "kill" the story, internal documents reveal.
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In the days after the high-profile raid in Ottawa, the Tories charged that Elections Canada had ignored similar electoral ad spending transgressions by the opposition, and told the media and Liberals about the raid to maximize political damage.
"With regard to this allegation of [a] leak do you have any suggestion as to how we could kill it?" Mr. Mayrand asked in an e-mail dated April 18.
"If we can dispel this story [the leak], we will have only positive media coverage," replied Ms. Vézina, the associate deputy chief electoral officer in charge of political financing. "And the alternative is that we appear to be partisan or biased or vindictive and at the moment the media seem to believe we tipped off the CBC and the Liberals."
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The remaining documents show Elections Canada kept a close eye on media coverage of the raid and its political fallout. Summaries of blogs, websites and broadcasts were compiled.
Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.Barack Obama denies ever having been a Muslim. But is he lying? Is he practicing Taqiyya? Why would he lie about having once been Muslim? If he's not Muslim any longer, then why is it that radical, extremist Islamists endorse him and want him to be President if he's an apostate? After all, Islamic fascists hate apostates and frequently execute them for apostasy, at least in the Islamic world. What's going on, then? Why would Obama lie about his past? Why does he feel he has to lie? Is he ashamed of having converted from Islam to Christianity? Why doesn't Obama come clean? Of course, were he to become President, how will the Islamic world view him then? After all, the likes of Iran's Ahmadinejad will see him as deserving of death for his apostasy. He'll be even more reviled by Islamic fundamentalist leaders of Islamic nations than was even Bush. They'll say, well, at least Bush is true to his faith, unlike Obama. So many questions. Obama's one mysterious dude. And he says you can trust him? Trust someone who'd lie about religious conversion? What kind of change does this... liar... have in mind for America? We don't know. He hasn't said!
As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."
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In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
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Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).
A 5-year-old Los Angeles boy is fighting for his life after police say he was severely tortured with burns and food deprivation by his lesbian mother and her live-in girlfriend.
Officials say the child has countless cigarette burns all over his body, including his genitals, and can't open his hands because he was forced to put them flat on a hot stove.
The boy was also repeatedly beaten and forced to sit in his own urine, police said.
"In my time in policing in 27 years, I have never seen anybody with these kinds of injuries that has lived," Los Angeles Police Department First Assistant Chief James McDonnell said. "And this kid must have a tremendous will to live to be able to still hang on despite what he's been through."
What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of trying to reengineer the global economy – as is required, for example, for the use of hydrogen fuel – they are trying to make a product that is interchangeable with oil. The company claims that this “Oil 2.0” will not only be renewable but also carbon negative – meaning that the carbon it emits will be less than that sucked from the atmosphere by the raw materials from which it is made.
LS9 has already convinced one oil industry veteran of its plan: Bob Walsh, 50, who now serves as the firm’s president after a 26-year career at Shell, most recently running European supply operations in London. “How many times in your life do you get the opportunity to grow a multi-billion-dollar company?” he asks. It is a bold statement from a man who works in a glorified cubicle in a San Francisco industrial estate for a company that describes itself as being “prerevenue”.
Inside LS9’s cluttered laboratory – funded by $20 million of start-up capital from investors including Vinod Khosla, the Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Micro-systems – Mr Pal explains that LS9’s bugs are single-cell organisms, each a fraction of a billionth the size of an ant. They start out as industrial yeast or nonpathogenic strains of E. coli, but LS9 modifies them by custom-de-signing their DNA. “Five to seven years ago, that process would have taken months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he says. “Now it can take weeks and cost maybe $20,000.”
Because crude oil (which can be refined into other products, such as petroleum or jet fuel) is only a few molecular stages removed from the fatty acids normally excreted by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, it does not take much fiddling to get the desired result.
Bloggers are raising questions about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's qualifications to be U.S. president, because of the secrecy over his birth certificate and the requirement presidents be "natural-born" U.S. citizens.
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(...)"If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen … because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for '10 years, at least [f]ive of which had to be after the age of 16.'"
(...) Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was 18 when Obama was born "so she wouldn't have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16."
(...)(Interestingly, apparently there isn't much paperwork on Obama's parents' marriage. 'Obama: From Promise to Power,' page. 27: 'Obama later confessed that he never searched for the government documents on the marriage, although Madelyn (Obama's maternal grandmother) insisted they were legally married.' Also note that Obama's father apparently was not legally divorced from his first wife back in Kenya at the time, a point of contention that ultimately led to their separation.)"
(CNSNews.com) - Federal taxpayers are subsidizing a college in New York whose art school is currently displaying works that include a drawing of a man with a crucifix coming out of his rectum, a drawing of a man with a rosary coming out of his rectum, and rosaries decorated with penises.
Over the last eight years, at least $4.6 million in federal tax dollars have been provided to the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which is displaying the controversial artworks. Some of the money has come in the form of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The NEA awarded the grants because, in its words, they "(enrich) our Nation and diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country."
“We want to lose so we can take it to a real court and if necessary up to the Supreme Court of Canada and we can get the ancient liberties of free-born Canadian citizens that have been taken away from them by tribunals like this.”
(CNSNews.com)- With only 70 days until the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing, human rights analysts say Communist China is cracking down on dissidents, adding to the already huge populations in its forced labor and child labor camps.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, said that as a result of the crackdowns, human rights abuses will not be evident during the 2008 Olympics.
"The time that we're seeing human rights abuses in China is right now ... leading up to the Olympics," Mosher told Cybercast News Service. "That's when the dissidents are being put away; that's when the labor union activists are being arrested; that's when the beggars are being swept off the streets of Beijing and sent packing."
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"Twenty thousand people have been arrested just for protesting the destruction of their homes," said Mosher, "so that 20,000 people has been added to the labor-camp population."
An estimated 10 million people are currently enslaved in Chinese labor camps, Mosher said.
Our Washington sources report that president George W. Bush is closer than ever before to ordering a limited missile-air bombardment of the IRGC-al Qods Brigade’s installations in Iran. It is planned to target training camps and the munitions factories pumping fighters, missiles and roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgency, Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.
JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama employed and continues to employ senior staffers who belong to the Nation of Islam, and the presidential candidate has some "worrying" ties to the controversial group headed by Louis Farrakhan, a former key Obama insider told WND.
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The former insider confirmed Obama is directly aware of the Nation of Islam members on his staff.
It's one thing for Shirlene McGovern and her fourteen lazy confreres not to show enough curiosity to do some research into the Danish cartoons themselves....
But you'd think that, in the 800-plus days they've been investigating me for publishing a news article about cartoons, that they'd have taken a moment to actually read the news article they're investigating.
Fire. Them. All.