CANADA'S GLORIOUS PEACE KEEPING PAST: LIBERAL VERSION

The rose-tinted Liberal reminiscence of blue helmets contains bomb crater sized holes.

 

ANOTHER SHAM COMMITTEE AT QUEEN'S PARK

Even as Ontario’s ruling Liberals promised to end cash-for-access fundraising this week, the party used its majority on a legislative committee to block a slew of proposals from the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP aimed at toughening up new campaign finance laws.

Among other proposed measures, the Liberals voted down a prohibition on cabinet ministers seeking donations from employees of companies with government contracts, tighter restrictions on taxpayer-funded government advertising and requirements for more transparency from lobbyists.

 

 

ENERGY EAST IS IN CANADA'S ECONOMIC INTEREST

Pipelines which are vital to Canada’s economy and necessary to move our landlocked fossil fuel resources to Canadian ports and from there to international markets.

 

 

LETTER TO WYNNE, FROM O'LEARY, PART II

I asked you to keep me informed about the $1.9 billion you are extracting out of the Ontario economy in new carbon taxes. I was excited when you promised lots of new jobs and reductions in carbon emissions. Then I saw the July jobs report. Wow, 36,100 Ontario jobs lost in a single month, the worst decline since the recession, and you still haven’t told me any good news about carbon emission reductions. I guess your new plan is not working.

 

FORGETFUL LIBERAL SPENDERS

That’s why the Liberals' latest attempts to bury the limo and vanity photographers’ expense controversy involving Liberal cabinet ministers, by claiming the Conservatives did it too, and they were even worse, is so dumb.

 

EUROPE'S CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION CONTINUES

   Like many other conservative and populist parties the FPO is benefiting from the migration crisis. Increasingly, more Austrians are dissatisfied with the traditional, more centrist parties that offer no solutions. Austrians see their country -- and continent -- being overrun by immigrants from the Middle East (people who do not share their values and beliefs, and who are making little to no effort to integrate).

 

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT MONEY DRIES UP

This time of year, railway cars filled with prairie wheat should be rolling past the station for the port of Churchill, 500 metres down the line on Hudson Bay. There are no grain cars today.

There haven’t been any all summer, because Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port — the only port of consequence along 162,000 kilometres of northern coastline — has suspended all grain shipments, a decision made by its Denver-based owner, OmniTRAX Inc.

 

 

25 YEARS OF COURTING CHINA...

....has Canada shouldering a $46 billion trade deficit

ONTARIO'S LIBERAL WEASELS

Ontario Liberals now say they want to ban all elected provincial politicians from attending fundraisers, after months of criticism over their so-called cash-for-access events.

 

 

"WE CAN DO IT" SAYS ANGELA MERKEL

54 of 1.3 million refugees were hired by 30 of the largest German employers. 50 of which employed by Deutsche Post.

IT IS TO LAUGH, YET CRY

Media drinking the kool-aid and buying the swampland.

GERMANY ECONOMY MINISTER: TTIP TALKS HAVE FAILED

In the latest blow for Obama's global trade agenda, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed, citing a lack of progress on any of the major sections of the long-running negotiations. "In my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it"

 

USA NOSE-DIVING HIGH-END REAL ESTATE MARKET

"I've never seen anything like this before" - The housing markets in the Hamptons, Aspen and Miami are all crashing.

 

 

GAS PLAN BUOYED BY ABORIGINAL VOTE

Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s proposed C$11 billion ($8.5 billion) liquefied natural gas export plant in Canada is getting a boost as an aboriginal community signals openness to the project amid speculation that the location may be changed.

 

WORKFORCE OPTIMIZATION AT BOMBARDIER

Bombardier hands out pink slips, as part of an effort to cut 7,000 workers. 

Union representative David Chartrand said that despite handing over US$1 billion, the province of Quebec didn't seek any guarantees to protect existing workers.

 

A LIBERAL WHO TAKES RESPONSIBILITY!

Something extraordinary happened at Queen’s Park last week.

A member of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet took responsibility for the province’s “deeply flawed” system for caring for developmentally disabled adults, apologized to those who have been harmed and promised to do better.

 

AB GOV'T EYES PROPERTY TAXES OF OIL & GAS INDUSTRIES

The Alberta government plans to review key planks of its property tax regime for the oil and gas industry, opening the door to potential changes at a time that several companies have waged a public campaign for tax breaks.

 

JOBLESS IN ALBERTA

Tens of thousands of energy professionals are out of work and out of hope.

 

QUESTIONING THE SPECIALIZED COURTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

B.C. has First Nations courts, domestic violence courts, the Victoria Integrated Court, the Downtown Community Court, the Vancouver Drug Treatment Court and other specialized courts.These so-called problem-solving courts (as opposed to adversarial, traditional courts) are aimed at helping targeted groups of qualifying compliant offenders.  Unfortunately, victims sometimes feel like the offender is getting a little too much attention.

 

CONSEQUENCES OF EXPOSING GEORGE SOROS

DCLeaks, a website that releases information on powerful political figures, has had its Twitter account suspended and part of its website taken offline after releasing a cache of documents on billionaire donor George Soros.  Despite the fact that the documents leaked were sheer dynamite, there was a curious lack of, well, curiosity on the part of the media to dig into them.

 

 

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

If you don’t like being called by spammers and advertisers, take note of this. You have less than 30 days to act if you have both a WhatsApp and Facebook account.

 

NO ANGELA, WE CAN NOT DO THIS

In the ZDF interview, Gabriel also criticized Merkel's catchphrase "Wir schaffen das", meaning "We can do this", which she adopted during the migrant crisis last summer and has repeatedly used since.

Merkel used the phrase at a news conference she held in late July after a spate of attacks on civilians in Germany, including two claimed by Islamic State, that have put her open-door migrant policy in the spotlight. Her popularity has slipped since those attacks.

 

                

 

WHY QUEBECKERS USE ONTARIO'S HOSPITALS

Quebec has worst emergency room wait times, health and welfare commissioner says, according to a report published in June 2016.

The Gatineau Hospital is among the "worst in the western world" for emergency care states a new report.

 

JAPAN VS SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION AUTHORITY

The founder of a radical conservation group, Paul Watson,  made famous by the television show “Whale Wars” says a settlement over anti-whaling activities only prevents the group’s U.S. organization from interfering with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.

 

RACKING UP BILLS THAT WOULD SHAME CALIGULA

Rex Murphy:  Some pilgrims have attended every one of these Conference of the Parties (COP) since they started in 1991, working up a stockpile of green grace and global warming indulgences that will surely land them a special seat in whatever Valhalla or solar-panelled Elysium awaits the faithful souls who did their all for Gaia and David Suzuki during their time on this troubled Earth.

 

CODERRE CALLS FOR SUSPENSION OF NEB HEARINGS

In a press conference at city hall late this afternoon, Montreal mayor Denis Coderre dropped a bombshell. He called for the suspension of National Energy Board hearings on TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline project, set to start on Monday in Montreal, saying he was unsure of the impartiality of the process. He would be joined within hours by the leader of the official opposition Parti Québécois.

 

LIBERALS' SELECTIVE COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

The government of Canada’s intent to achieve a gender-balanced Supreme Court of Canada that also reflects the diversity of members of Canadian society, has created problems.

All that has happened is that one axis of “diversity” has been displaced by another; in place of region, seats on the court will now be allotted by sex and race. In the rock-paper-scissors game of identity politics, Atlantic Canadians lost out; that is all. “If it’s possible,” the Globe and Mail’s Sean Fine quoted a Liberal insider on the search for Cromwell’s replacement, “they’re going to give it to a female, bilingual, visible minority.”

 

 

PETER MCKAY TALKS ABOUT STEPHEN HARPER

Complex like Canada itself, Harper was never one to seek the limelight, yet was comfortable and confident in what he believed to be the right course. It takes talent and grit to be PM, tough decisions must be made against a tide of criticism.

 

OBAMACARE MARKETPLACES IN DEATH SPIRAL

A Princeton Univeristy health economist told the liberal website Vox that the Obamacare state exchanges were in a "death sprial" and nothing could be done to save them.

 

ALTERNATIVE TO EPIPEN

The only reason that prices for EpiPens could be raised is that government regulations created a captive market whose regulations required the delivery system that Mylan Labs had patented.  Epinephrine, the actual product delivered to the bloodstream is a hormone and not patentable. The ease of use of Mylan’s EpiPen is worthwhile, and can save seconds, especially if an inexperienced person is delivering the dosage.  That ease of use costs you several hundred dollars. If you are, for instance, a family with a child that has a condition that might require an EpiPen and you are willing to forego that convenience and follow a few instructions, you can purchase the capability of delivering that dosage for about ten bucks! 

 

BRITAIN AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS

The official attitude, political and legal, of Britain to Islamic terrorists, jihadists, and their supporters has and continues to be ambivalent. It used to be indecisive: now it’s not so sure. If not imitating the action of the tiger, British policy needs stiffening of the sinews.

 

 

HILLARY'S RACE WAR

Hillary Clinton has met with leaders of a racist hate group responsible for torching cities and inciting the murders of police officers.

Deray McKesson, one of the Black Lives Matter hate group leaders she met with, had praised the looting of white people and endorsed cop killers Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Black Lives Matter hate group had specifically made a point of targeting white people in “white spaces” for harassment. It would go on to incite the mass murder of police officers in Dallas and other racist atrocities.

Despite all this, Hillary Clinton has never disavowed the racist hate group.

 

TARGET BEGS SHOPPERS TO COME BACK

Target is launching a first-of-its-kind one-day sale to try and boost back-to-school shopper traffic amid a boycott over its bathroom policy. This is what happens when you blindly hop on the social-justice bandwagon without consulting your customers, understanding their mores, or giving a damn about what they think. Serves Target right. Drive by any Target store since the "transgender" policy went into effect and witness an ocean of empty spaces in their parking lots.

 

DOLLAR STORES: US CONSUMERS IN DIRE STRAITS

Both Dollar General and Dollar Tree said pressures on their core lower-income shoppers contributed to the same-store sales misses that both retailers reported. On today's conference call, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos said that he was surprised to admit that while on the surface things are supposed to be getting better, the reality is vastly different for low-income US consumers.

WAR & PEACE IN PUTIN'S MIDLE EAST

With America on the sidelines, Israel and the Arabs play a new game

 

 

EXTREMIST ISLAM IN CANADA

Leading Canadian politicians have been proclaiming that Islamic extremism is rare or nonexistent in Canada’s mosques, and that to believe otherwise is racist or Islamophobic. On the other hand, an investigation by two experts finds that in some Canadian mosques and school libraries, extremist Islamic literature is the only brand available

 

 

REAL LIFE VICTIMS OF THE TRANSGENDER CULT

More and more parents are stepping out, admitting that their children "identify as transgender" and wanting to do something about it. Schools encourage gender confusion, and doctors reportedly won't even run preliminary tests if a child asks for life-altering "treatment." But before you sign your kids up, listen to the real-life stories of people who deeply regret their "transition."

 

BRINGS A TEAR TO YOUR EYE

Berman feels like she was played the fool by Christy Clark in the wake of the British Columbia premier’s controversial climate-change plan.

“I definitely feel used,” Berman told me Wednesday.

Berman was a high-profile member of Clark’s Climate Leadership Team, an expert advisory panel that called on Clark to increase the province’s carbon tax as a key measure to fight climate change.

But when Clark announced her climate-change plan last Friday, she made a big point of refusing to increase the tax.

 

NOTLEY'S OVERHEATED RHETORIC

Notley is breaking out the verbal flame thrower to scorch her conservative opponents by arguing that life in Alberta would be far worse if the PCs were still in power or if the Wildrose had won the election.

However, the argument would be more effective if the government was successfully attracting investment, creating jobs or inching a new pipeline closer to “tidewater.”

 

2X4'S AT THE READY

A trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada over softwood lumber is escalating, raising the specter of higher tariffs as officials downplay the likelihood of reaching a deal before an October deadline.

 

ON LIBS BANNING CASH-FOR-ACCESS FUNDRAISERS. OR NOT.

Ontario's Liberal government is not keen on banning cash-for-access fundraisers through legislation because it could restrict them from doing any fundraising at all, the government house leader suggested Wednesday.

The Liberals proposed legislation to reform election finances amid allegations they were selling access to cabinet ministers at high-priced dinners and receptions, though they denied that attendees at those functions influenced government decisions.

 

WHAT THE BRITS REALLY THOUGHT OF 1980'S CANADA

Brian Mulroney was glib and superficial, Trudeau did not conceal his contempt for other MPs, the press, and sometimes the man in the street.  In 1984 the British High Commissioner to Canada wrote, " I had not appreciated how deep and widespread was the distrust and dislike of Trudeau."

 

 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG

Interception of Canadians’ private communications by the federal electronic spy agency increased 26-fold last year, for reasons authorities won’t fully explain.

And despite commitments between Canada and its intelligence-sharing allies to respect the privacy of each nation’s citizens, the volume of information on Canadians collected by allied intelligence agencies and informally shared with Canada’s spies has grown to the point that it now requires a formal mechanism to cope with all the data.

 

 

BETTER TELL THE PM WHAT CANOLA IS

China's ambassador to Canada says he hopes a simmering trade dispute over Canadian canola exports won't become an even bigger problem with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set to visit Beijing next week.

 

BIG PHARMA

Every single pharmaceutical company operating in the U.S. has spent millions on lobbying in recent years.
Meet Mylan's friend: The FDA

CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP RACE SNOOZEFEST

The early line on the Conservative leadership race — and it is very early, with the vote still nine months away — has been one of disappointment: yawn fest, gravitas gap, if only that dreamy Peter MacKay were running, etc.

 

ALBERTA NDP PROJECT $10.9 BILLION DEFICIT

Alberta’s projected deficit has swelled to $10.9 billion, while the provincial economy is expected to shrink further

The NDP government has resisted cutting operational spending amid the downturn, while significantly hiking capital spending through borrowing as an economic stimulus.

Sounds like a recipe for success, eh?

 

ONTARIO CITIES RAKING IN THE TRANSIT FUNDING

The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and accessibility upgrades to stations, the prime minister announced Tuesday. 

Premier Kathleen Wynne, who has long made a push for more federal infrastructure funding, was on hand for the announcement. She said Ontario is "already putting every available dollar towards infrastructure" as her government has committed to spend $160 billion over 12 years.

 

 

CLARK NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE FLAK

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark set up a panel of experts to advise her on climate-change policy and now she is conspicuously refusing to follow the panel’s advice. 

 

PORK-BARREL SPENDING ALIVE & WELL WITH TRUDEAU

The federal government’s grandly titled “Atlantic Growth Strategy” was in action Monday.

As the minister in charge of this strategy, Navdeep Bains, put it, this “Atlantic Growth Strategy” involves “targeted investments” that will help boost the region’s “long-term prosperity.”

So what were Monday’s “targeted investments”? Paving a parking lot at a theatre and building new forward tees at a golf course in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. An energy retrofit at the YMCA in St. John’s. Building a new stage at a folklore park in Miramichi, N.B.. Combined bill for the federal taxpayer: About $350,000.

 

CANDIDATES' EXPENSES IN 2015

On top of yard signs and pizza for volunteers, candidates in last fall’s federal election charged their campaigns for the costs of skin-resurfacing treatments, sport socks and visits to hair and makeup salons.

 

$6600 PHOTOGRAPHY BILL FOR CANADIAN TAXPAYERS

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna defended her ministry's decision to employ a professional photographer to document her work at the COP21 climate summit in Paris last fall, but said Tuesday she has now instructed her department to review the pricey practice.

Her work?  Yah, how to put the screws to Canadians again through cap and trade schemes. 

 

HUNGRY GREEN PARASITES IN PARIS

A trio of Environment Canada bureaucrats ate their way through more than $12,000 worth of fine Parisian cuisine during last fall's big climate change conference.

Those three alone accounted for about 1/10th of the $129,000 in meal claims by the entire 155-strong Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change

 

GERMANS TO PREPARE APPROPRIATELY

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.

 

A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE

A Mississauga teenager has been cautioned about her behaviour after she called 911 to complain that her parents forced her to go on vacation with them in Trent Hills, according to Northumberland OPP.

 

SOROS SOCIETY SEEKS TO RESHAPE CENSUS

According to a hacked document, George Soros’s Open Society Foundation is funding key progressive groups with the stated goal of attempting to “influence appropriations for the (U.S.) Census Bureau” while pushing to change the methods in which racial categories are counted for the coming 2020 Census.

 

JETSET GENEVA CLIMATE MEETING FAILS TO SAVE THE WORLD

Scientists met last week in Geneva, to try to work out how to save the world – but likely more meetings at exotic locations will be required.

 

BRINGING TO JUSTICE THOSE WHO FUND VIOLENCE

Behind the scenes are the big money people who are pulling their strings. In between is a shadowy world built to distance the funders from the funded. The passionate young people don’t seem nearly so authentic when you realize that they’re just puppets dancing to the tune of an 86-year-old billionaire rattling around a 16-room mansion on Fifth Avenue or a vast estate in Bedford. 

The recent Soros leaks showed how the left’s grass roots organizations are dictated to by radical billionaires like him. And they also show that Soros‘s people were well aware of the need to distance themselves from the organizations that they were funding.

 

CORPORATE WELFARE IN CALIFORNIA'S WATER SUPPLY

So, with polling data in hand and an arsenal of buzz words from the focus groups, a new ad campaign was launched to convince Californians that they were going to die of thirst after the next earthquake wipes out California's water infrastructure...that is, unless, the Resnicks get their $65BN.

 

NERVE TRANSFER SURGERY RESTORES MOVEMENT

It began with a twitch in his fingers about six months ago, and if the muscles in his hand continue to improve, Tim Raglin believes he’ll be able to hoist a beer bottle sometime soon. Last February, however, Raglin became the first person in Canada to undergo nerve transfer surgery in a procedure designed to restore some movement to his right hand.

 

CANADA MUST MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS RE BORDER SECURITY

Canada remains a signatory to the Beyond the Border Agreement (BTB) with the US which, wisely, has very specific commitments that include timelines which are now not being met. Perhaps the most important of these was for the joint assessment of border gaps and vulnerabilities (completed) and a commitment to address them through a joint technology procurement and deployment process.

THE WEAKNESS OF CANADA'S NATIONAL SECURITY

There have been some vain mutterings this week from Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale about something called mandatory counseling for terror suspects. Am I hearing this right or are the Liberals really that self-righteously stupid as to think all we need to do is potential terrorists with an earnest feel-good coach and everything will be fine?

 

LEFTIST "ACTIVISTS" ATTACK TRUMP SUPPORTERS

Leftist agitators viciously attacked attendees at a Donald Trump presidential campaign fundraiser in Minneapolis on Friday night.  Trump fundraiser attendees attempting to exit the building were forced through a gauntlet of punches, with one protester seen violently attacking an elderly man as another man and a woman caught the brunt of the brutal beating.

 

THE HYPERBOLE OF PRESIDENT PLANK

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama stated, “the threat of climate change means that protecting our public lands and waters is more important than ever. Rising temperatures could mean no more glaciers in Glacier National Park. No more Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park. Rising seas could destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades, even threaten Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.”

FIORINA ON H CLINTON

Hillary Clinton is corrupt.

 

OBAMA: A STRAIGHT-UP COP HATER

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke says police officers aren't looking for a pat on the back, they just want to know that their political leaders aren't going to throw them under the bus. And he says that's exactly what Barack Obama has done; he calls him a straight-up "cop hater."

 

"SO WHAT?" SAID OBAMA & HIS ACOLYTES

The Obama administration has allowed the United States to become the terror sponsoring Iranian regime’s banker. It shamefully paid $400 million in ransom to secure the release of American hostages whom the Iranian regime was illegally detaining.  President Obama indignantly denied he had paid Iran a ransom, which would be contrary to long-standing American policy. All he was doing, he said, was to settle an old debt, which had arisen because Iran had never received the arms the Shah had purchased before the Islamic revolution in 1979 ended his rule.

 

THE USELESS UN

On July 11, rampaging South Sudanese “soldiers” – savages would be a more appropriate term – attacked a sprawling hotel compound in the capital city of Juba inhabited by Western relief workers, journalists and South Sudanese elites. In the following 24 hours, the Westerners as well as some South Sudanese were forced to endure gang rape and torture. One South Sudanese journalist was shot dead while an American woman was raped by as many as 15 South Sudanese soldiers. Americans were singled out for particular cruelty.

Unbelievably, the carnage could have been prevented. There was a significant United Nations force staffed by Chinese, Ethiopian and Nepalese troops stationed nearby, just a few minutes’ drive away.

 

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE ON THE UNITED NATIONS

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs.  He then launched an attack on the United Nations and its members - including by inference Manila's traditionally close ally, Washington - saying, it could not fulfill its own mandate but was "worrying about the bones of criminals piling up".

     "I do not want to insult you. But maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations," he said. "Why do you have to listen to this stupid?"

 

      

 

MOSCOW'S NEGLECT

More than two years after Russia annexed Crimea and promised its 2 million people a better life, residents say prices have soared, wages and pensions have stagnated and tourists have fled.

 

 

WHO WROTE THIS ONTARIO LEGISLATION?

The Coyotes?

MERE TRILLIONS UNACCOUNTED

Government corruption, falsification and potential fraud and embezzlement,  has resulted in the Pentagon being unable to account for up to $8.5 trillion in taxpayer funding.

Today, Reuters follows up on this disturbing issue, and reveals that the Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced.

 

 

CLIMATE PHILOSOPHER DEMANDS A TAX ON CHILDREN

Climate philosopher Travis Rieder has been touring the country, trying to persuade university students not to have kids – and promoting ideas for restricting childbirth, including tax penalties against people who decide to have a child.

 

GREENWASHING HAS BECOME VERY EXPENSIVE

Companies which took the easy route of paying lip service to climate issues, instead of opposing green lies, may be about to pay a high price for their decades of complacency.

 

 

LIBERAL PLAN: TAX YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY

“For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” – Sir Winston Churchill

And this brings us to the critical fact about creating prosperity and improving the economy that Churchill understood, and that today’s Liberal Party of Canada evidently does not: government cannot create prosperity.

Government, very simply, can only spend other people’s money; it has no money of its own.

 

ENERGY POVERTY INCREASING IN CANADA

Canadians want clean energy, and Canada has committed itself to stiff greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. However, how those targets are met, and at what cost, are vitally important questions for the well-being of Canadian households. Almost 40 per cent of households in Atlantic Canada experience energy poverty.

As they move forward with their energy plans, the premiers in Atlantic Canada would do well to focus on opportunities to make energy more affordable for their citizens, rather than taking actions to make it more expensive.

 

ONTARIO MUST CHANGE ITS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Because doctors’ fees, as such, are not the issue. To be sure, they are part of the puzzle: at $11.5 billion annually, they are roughly one-fifth of Ontario’s health-care budget. But all the hard bargaining in the world isn’t going to rescue Canada’s health-care system from the fiscal cliff to which it is headed. Much more important than doctors’ fees are doctors’ decisions, as the gatekeepers dictating how resources are allocated within the system: how many tests are ordered, what procedures are done, and so on.

 

THE FARCE THAT IS PHOENIX

The price tag to fix the federal government's new payroll system has jumped by as much as $10 million in the past month, with Public Works Minister Judy Foote saying the cost has now reached $25 million.

 

 

BEE SMART, END THE STUPIDITY

On July 19, the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA) released their yearly report regarding overwintering losses. Once again, it clearly indicates that the Canadian honeybee industry is continuing to thrive.

 

 

WHAT'S REALLY IN PET FOOD

At the rendering plant, slaughterhouse material, restaurant and supermarket refuse, deadstock, roadkill, and euthanized companion animals are dumped into huge containers.

I’m not kidding. Whole carcasses of diseased animals, cats and dogs from shelters, zoo animals, roadkill and expired meat from grocery store shelves all end up in the grinder.

 

 

ISIS STATES WHY IT HATES THE WEST

Now, however, the world need not rely on my translations and can get it straight from the horse's mouth.  In a recent article titled "Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You," the Islamic State gives six reasons.   Reason number one says it all: 

We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers; you reject the oneness of Allah – whether you realize it or not – by making partners for Him in worship, you blaspheme against Him, claiming that He has a son [Christ], you fabricate lies against His prophets and messengers, and you indulge in all manner of devilish practices.

 

VENEZUELA THE HELL HOLE

Things are bad in Venezuela. Inflation is running close to 700% this year, the workforce is on a 3 day workweek because there's a shortage of electricity, and you can't buy stuff like milk, flour, and cooking oil because store shelves are empty.

But leave it to socialism to make the worst out of an already rotten situation.

Socialism creates scarcity so it's not surprising that people who suffer the loss of a loved one can't find - or afford - a decent coffin. So families are now given the option of burying their loved ones in a cardboard box or renting a regular coffin for the duration of the funeral.

 

ENTITLEMENT IS THE LIBERAL KRYPTONITE

Jane Philpott, who everyone said was doing such a good job as health minister was discovered this week to have billed taxpayers for thousands of dollars in limousine rides she and her top aides used.

Not only that, but that money was shovelled to a limousine firm — pardon me, it’s an “executive sedan” firm — run by someone Philpott knew had been a volunteer on her campaign. 

Philpott, only when outed by the National Post, admitted the charges were inappropriate and promised not to do it again.  But that won’t end it.

 

 

CABBIE TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST POLICE

The Strathroy, Ont., taxi driver who picked up ISIS sympathizer Aaron Driver — who wound up detonating an explosive device in the cab — says he tried to return to work, but one turn of the key made him sweat, shake and vomit.

 

"WASTE OF TIME & MONEY"

Liberal and Conservative MPs jousted Thursday over the need for another irregular mid-summer meeting of the House Trade Committee, this time on softwood lumber negotiations.

After opposition members asked for it, the committee unanimously agreed to sit Thursday morning to be briefed by and question the top public servants on the softwood file.  However, Liberal MP Linda Lapointe (Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Que.) remarked that the meeting was a “waste of time and money,” given that the committee already completed a report on the same Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade negotiations in June.

 

FIRE ONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER HOSKINS

You have to congratulate Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins.

It takes spectacular talent to alienate vast numbers of physicians in this province — especially when you’re one of them.

That’s what the good doctor has done. Doctors voted decisively over the weekend to reject the tentative deal hammered out between the ministry and the Ontario Medical Association.

 

QUESTIONING THE VALUE OF CMHC'S REVIEW PROCESS

Canada’s national housing agency gave Maple Bank GmbH’s Canadian branch the green light during a financial review, just one month before the federal banking watchdog seized the company’s assets amid a German tax investigation, documents show.

 

GREEN PROFIT PROPHET CALLING OUT PM

 David Suzuki said while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been meeting with the United Nations, the premiers and the leaders of the U.S. and Mexico to talk about climate change, he’s done nothing.

He’s right. As Canada’s most famous environmentalist put it:

“So, how much better is Canada’s climate target than before the Liberals swept to power? Astonishingly, not one bit.

 

RAISING BENEFITS FOR MILITARY & RCMP

A new analysis says an NDP proposal to boost pension benefits for families of deceased Canadian Forces and RCMP veterans could hurt Ottawa's bottom line by more than $6 billion.

The NDP private member's bill calls for raising retirement benefit payments to surviving spouses and children to 70 per cent of a contributor's annual allowance from the current level of 50 per cent.

 

RESTRICTING TERRORISTS WITH PEACE BONDS

As Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale promised to toughen the requirements on terror suspects who are subject to restrictive peace bonds, newly unsealed court documents show police feared one Montreal man could launch an attack in Canada if he were prevented from travelling abroad.

 

PETTY POLITICAL POSTURING: QUESTIONING EXPENSES

The owner of an executive limo service hired on several occasions by Health Minister Jane Philpott, for amounts she conceded Wednesday are “too high,” says he’s refunding those invoices in response to “petty, political posturing.”  Philpott expensed about $1,700 for one day of service in the Greater Toronto Area, March 31.

 

GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

Expenses related to the federal government’s web renewal project are already skyrocketing and the initiative is only in its second official year.

The push to gather a vast majority of the government’s departments and agencies under the Canada.ca web address — as opposed to the various disparate websites they previously had — has already cost the federal government at least $9.2 million, of which $5.4 million has been paid. The contract, which was awarded to Adobe Corp. in March 2015, was originally valued at $1.54 million.

 

WYNNE'S LEGACY

Notwithstanding a recent uptick in economic growth, Ontario has been mired in a long-term economic slump that has lasted more than a decade.

In fact, inflation-adjusted economic growth per person averaged an anemic 0.4% annually between 2003 and 2014.

A glance across our border at the manufacturing sector of neighbouring Michigan shows economic decline is not an inevitable outcome for manufacturing jurisdictions in affluent countries.

 

PUTIN'S DIPLOMACY

Ukraine says it thinks Vladimir Putin is planning a new invasion, and it's not hard to see why: the Russian leader has built up troops on its border and resumed the hostile rhetoric that preceded his annexation of Crimea two years ago.  But despite appearances, some experts say Putin is more likely seeking advantage through diplomacy than on the battlefield, at least this time around.

 

 

DECEIVING AMERICANS

A former brigadier general revealed on Fox News Monday some new information about the White House's role in U.S. Central Command's skewing of intelligence to downplay the threats of ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Last week, a House Republican task force concluded in a 15-page report that U.S. military leaders altered intelligence reports "to paint a rosier picture" of the U.S.-led fight against ISIS than intelligence analysts believed was warranted.

 

FUELING THE MILWAUKEE RIOTS

The Milwaukee riots should be the last time the policies of liberal Democrats are held up as anything other than misery-inducing, divisive, exploitative and racist manipulation of the urban populations. Unfortunately they won’t.

As Sheriff of Milwaukee County, I am furious that the progressive left has put my citizens in harm’s way and that I had to send my officers into cauldrons of anarchy and hatred that were created by the left.

 

OBAMACARE MELTDOWN

Double-digit Obamacare premium hikes projected in 2017 may bode in Donald Trump’s favor, as several swing states are being impacted by double-digit increases under the law and consumers are expected to see the hikes around Nov. 1 — one week before heading to the polls.

REVEALING ELECTRONIC PASSWORDS

Canada's police chiefs want a new law that would force people to hand over their electronic passwords with a judge's consent.

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has passed a resolution calling for the legal measure to unlock digital evidence, saying criminals increasingly use encryption to hide illicit activities.

 

SENDING PIES TO PEI

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to visit the same agriculture fair in Prince Edward Island Tuesday where former prime minister Jean Chrétien was pied in the face 16 years ago.

CHANGE THE RULES; WYNNE THE ADVANTAGE

Ontario's Liberal government is defending a publicly funded ad that promotes an agreement to enhance the Canada Pension Plan — a federal program.  Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk said she would not have approved the ad under the previous rules, but the Liberals changed them last year. The new rules remove the auditor's discretion to veto ads her office feels are partisan, she said.

 

 

DISCUSSING THE ISLAMIC REFORMATION IN CANADA

We need to get really good at counter-radicalization, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale recently argued. And he's right. But we won’t succeed at that until we add talk about the Islamic reformation into the mix. Yet media and politicians here never even reference the phrase.

And what is it? It’s the idea that Islam needs to “jump from totalitarian fundamentalism to enlightened, liberal religion,” as Foreign Policy magazine describes it. Sort of like the 16th century Christian reformation.

 

THE COST OF GREEN

As Alberta’s NDP government rushes ahead with implementation of its climate change plan, a new study provides another measure of its exorbitant cost – a proposed cap on oilsands emissions would leave oil worth hundreds of billions in the ground, while doing little to reduce global greenhouse gases.

 

EUROPEAN MIGRATION FLASHPOINTS

Last week I reported here at PJ Media on the growing mountain of evidence showing that the European migration crisis is causing flashpoints across the continent. I noted two dozen incidents from the previous seven days revealing the scope of the problem.

Fast-forward a week later and now all indications are that Europe's domestic insurgency fueled by the massive waves of migrants flooding into EU countries continues to escalate.

 

MIGRANT CHAOS IN CALAIS

Migrants wielding bats and knives have been smashing up vehicles on roads near Calais as their owners sit in traffic, reportedly “just for fun”. Local residents are warning others to avoid the area, saying that the migrants are not even checking to see whether children are in the vehicles before they set upon them.

SOROS ORDERS ON USA FOREIGN POLICY

A series of message within the September 2015 State Department dump of Hillary Clinton e-mails show the Secretary of State of the United States received direct orders over U.S. foreign policy from none other than Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.

SCRUBBING THE CLINTON WEBSITE

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign deleted her comment on the campaign website assuring rape victims that they deserved to be believed.

 “I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault: Don’t let anyone silence your voice. You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed, and we’re with you,” Clinton said in September 2015.

 

HACKING SOROS

In the case of Soros’s Open Society, hackers stole a trove of documents after accessing the foundation’s internal intranet, a system called Karl, according to a person familiar with its internal investigation. On August 3, the DCLeaks.com Twitter account tweeted “Check George Soros’s OSF plans to counter Russian policy and traditional values,” attaching a screenshot of a $500,000 budget request for an Open Society program designed to counter Russian influence among European democracies.

 

INNOVATIONS MAKING HEALTH CARE FASTER & CHEAPER

For decades, health care has “shifted right.” It’s become more expensive and has been centralized in the most expensive place, Bromwich said: the tertiary care hospital.

“What we need to do is shift left,” he said. “We need to empower the primary care, the community members, the nurses, the outreach workers, the home care. We need to empower all of those people to deliver quality care outside of the hospital.

 

WHEN YOUR PAY RAISE ADDS UP TO A PAY CUT

Ottawa-area personal support workers say the time they have to spend with clients during home visits has been scaled back, which has turned a much-hyped provincial pay raise into a pay cut. 

But not to worry; a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care said the ministry “values the importance of personal support workers to the health-care system and the critical role they play in helping Ontario seniors stay independent in their homes.”

 

 

OLYMPIC SHOOTER FIRES BACK AT GUN CONTROL

The media elite and gun control movement is entirely ignorant about the American cultural traditions centered around firearms. They view all firearms as death weapons, but many in America associate their firearms with family hunting trips or days spent together at the gun range.

Skeet shooter and five time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode was asked about the politically charged gun issue. Fortunately for the firearms community, the superstar skeet shooter is an able advocate for the Second Amendment.

 

THE CHARITABLE H CLINTON

According to tax returns for 2015 released by the Clinton campaign, 96% of the candidate's charitable donations went to the Clinton Foundation.

 

RULES DO NOT APPLY TO CLINTON

 Dr. Dorothy Woods, whose husband, Tyrone Woods, was killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack stated that recently-released emails regarding the Clinton Foundation are “just another example of how as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued to operate under the attitude of, rules that apply to everybody else don’t apply to me.” And “do we really want this woman as our next president? No.”

 

MERKEL IGNORING LACK OF LANGUAGE SKILLS & EDUCATION

Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited executives from some of Germany’s biggest listed companies to attend a summit next month where she will urge them to hire more refugees, the newspaper Bild reported on Saturday. Merkel will push reluctant German companies to offer more traineeships and position to refugees.

 

UK CAPABLE OF FUNDING ITS OWN PROGRAMS

According to Full Fact, an independent fact-checking agency, the British government paid about 13 billion pounds to the EU last year, after its automatic rebate, and got back 4.5 billion pounds in funding. 

 

COAL PRICES COLLAPSE ALONG WITH CHINESE TOWNS

Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a losing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles: patching up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in sinkholes caused by decades of coal mining.

Around 100 pits in Helin - buried in the hilly rural outskirts of the city of Xiaoyi - have been exhausted, and cluttered hamlets totter precariously on the brittle slopes of mines.

 

BREXIT DELAY

Britain's exit from the European Union could be delayed until at least late 2019 because the government was too "chaotic" to start the two-year process early next year, the Sunday Times reported, citing sources it said were briefed by ministers.

Britain voted to leave the EU on June 23, but views differ over when it should invoke "Article 50", which sets the clock ticking on a two-year deadline to leave the bloc, with some senior politicians calling for a quick departure.

 

FARMLAND BUBBLE BURSTS

As Ag credit conditions crumble.

ONTARIO'S LAND-GRABBING CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES

A precedent-setting court decision that could affect anyone in the province owning property in environmentally protected areas is currently making its way through the Ontario Court of Appeals.

It all started in 2009 when Alex and Tania Gilmor began the permit process to build a home on their property in Amaranth, a small community of roughly 4,000 residents about 15 minutes northwest of Orangeville. 

The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority denied that application and a proceeding appeal, and for the last seven years the Gilmors have been fighting for permission to build on their land.

 

HOW TO HACK AN ELECTION IN 7 MINUTES

Clutching a screwdriver, he deftly wedged out the four ROM chips from the voting machine—they weren’t soldered into the circuit board, as sense might dictate—making it simple to replace them with one of his own: A version of modified firmware that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter. The attack was concluded in minutes.

 

ONTARIO DOCTORS VOTE

Groups calling themselves Concerned Ontario Doctors and the Coalition of Ontario Doctors staged rallies and protest marches urging physicians to vote against the deal.Dr. Keith Meloff, a neurologist, warns the provision for doctors to co-manage the health-care system could make lifer harder for physicians.

“We have to chose between saving money for the ministry – that is what this deal says – and saving a life, and I think that is an impossible choice,” said Meloff.

 

BILL C-51 WORKED THE WAY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO

Bill C-51, and other laws that enhance our security, are frequently maligned by leftist politicians and activists.  The anti-terrorism bill that Justin Trudeau campaigned against in the last election is at least partially responsible for thwarting the Driver attack. Luckily for Canadians, Trudeau didn't get around to making the amendments he campaigned for, and hopefully he will think twice about gutting the bill.

 

 

COMBATTING TERRORISM IN CANADA

Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer, said today’s international counterterrorism systems are straining to keep track of the increasing numbers of extremists. “With a large pool of known [or] suspected extremists, to say nothing of the ones totally off the radar, law enforcement and [intelligence] services must prioritize risk and coverage,” said Mr. Skinner.

Past testimony before Canadian parliamentary committees has shed some insight into the scope of the problem; it takes up to 20 officers to follow a single suspect, lawmakers have been told.

 

USA PROTECTIONISM AFFECTING CONTRACT TALKS IN CANADA

When automakers are on the ropes, as General Motors and Fiat Chrysler were in 2009, governments spend billions to bail them out.

So it should come as no surprise that politics is in the air as GM, Chrysler and Ford begin contract talks with their unionized employees in Canada.

With the North American Free Trade Agreement under attack from both major candidates in the U.S. presidential election, these talks promise to be the most politicized in recent memory.

 

CANADIANS' FAITH IN THEIR JUSTICE SYSTEM

We now have a crisis situation in this country in which you are going to see tens of thousands of persons who are guilty of serious crimes in this country released," said Baker, a Senate Liberal.

"They will not go to jail for what they're convicted of, simply because we have not made the proper changes in procedures relating to court operations."

 

FREE SPEECH ON TWITTER

According to a former senior Twitter employee, Costolo ordered employees to deploy an algorithm (which was built in-house by feeding it thousands of examples of abuse and harassing tweets) that would filter out abusive language directed at Obama. Another source said the media partnerships team also manually censored tweets, noting that Twitter’s public quality-filtering algorithms were inconsistent. Two sources told BuzzFeed News that this decision was kept from senior company employees for fear they would object to the decision.

 

 

STATING THE BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS IN AUSTRALIA

The Australian Energy Market Operator, the government body responsible for ensuring the stability of Australia’s energy supply, has issued a stark warning that closure of coal plants will dramatically increase the risk of widespread blackouts – that building additional renewable capacity will not compensate for the loss of coal capacity.

 

CANADA'S GOLDEN PENNY

On the weekend, when she started on what quickly turned into an epic Olympic journey, Penny Oleksiak became Canada’s darling, a teen sensation to capture a nation.

Not only did the 16-year-old Toronto swimmer win her fourth medal of these Rio Games, the Penny is now pure gold as she set an Olympic record in winning the women’s 100-metre freestyle. 

 

THE ETHICS OF ALGONQUIN COLLEGE

Algonquin College is pulling out of its controversial, money-losing college for men in Saudi Arabia.
The failed venture in the Middle Eastern kingdom will end up costing Algonquin an estimated $5.8 million, say college officials.

 

EDUCATING BULLHEADED WYNNE

Michigan’s strong economic performance since 2011 stands in contrast to Ontario, a jurisdiction that also has a large manufacturing base as a central feature of its economy but one that has not experienced an economic resurgence comparable to Michigan’s in recent years. Between 2010 and 2014, Michigan’s real economic output has increased slightly faster than Ontario’s, despite slower population growth. Michigan’s manufacturing output growth exceeded Ontario’s significantly between 2011 and 2014.

 

 

ELECTION FRAUD IN THE UK IGNORED

The Telegraph reports that a new report commissioned by former Communities Secretary Sir Eric Pickles reveals that UK authorities are in a “state of denial” and are “turning a blind eye” to election fraud in heavily populated Muslim areas.  According to the report, voter fraud is occurring “especially in communities of Pakistani and Bangladeshi background”, but concerns have been largely ignored due to “over-sensitivities about ethnicity and religion”.

 

SPEAKING ENGLISH IN AMERICA

During Wednesday’s State Department press briefing, Associated Press Diplomatic Writer Matt Lee asked State Department Press Office Director Elizabeth Trudeau “am I not speaking English?” During a line of questioning about improper relationships between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.

 

ISIS DESK JOCKEYS AT THE BATTLEFRONT

ISIS has recruited doctors, human resources professionals, teachers, jurists, office clerks, accountants, and even fitness trainers to whip chubby fighters into shape.

But according to the U.S. military, those who signed up for the administrative side of ISIS are now getting pushed to the battlefront.

 

CANADA'S SECURITY QUESTIONED

It took a tip from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to alert Canadian intelligence officials to what police say was an imminent attack Driver was planning on a major Canadian city.

 

CANADIAN WEED

Medical marijuana patients in Canada will be allowed to grow a limited amount of cannabis for their own use or designate someone to grow it for them, the government said on Thursday.

 

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL

The Democrat/Progressives make no demand for truth.  They care not to find out what actually happened at Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, and the removal of official email from a secretary of state's server.  Furthermore, they castigate anyone seeking the truth.  Liberal?  What an adulteration of the term.

 

HOW TO SPOT A JEW HATER

That is, if a political party, church, charity, non-government organization, religious or student group, media pundit or anyone else tells you they are proud to support boycotting Israel through BDS in light of its human rights violations against the Palestinians, ask them this simple question.

“Really? That’s interesting! What other countries are you boycotting because of their human rights violations?”

 

ODIOUS REDFORD

This sudden interest in the phone bill came at a moment of high crisis, as MLAs were quitting Redford’s caucus and she was on the verge of resigning.

Lukaszuk had been very critical of Redford. She’d demoted him. “For the whole previous year, I’d had a contentious relationship with the premier,” he says.

 

POLITICS AND RELIGION

Efforts by the previous Conservative government to promote religious freedom around the world were tainted by the perception of political interference, an internal government evaluation concluded.

The Office of Religious Freedoms positioned Canada as a welcomed world leader on the issue, said the review of the project.  Some told the evaluation team the office was too harsh in its public denunciations of religious freedom violations, while others said there weren't enough statements specific to religious restrictions, such as Sharia law. 

 

TERROR THREAT SUSPECT DEAD

Aaron Driver, a suspect being sought in connection with a terror threat, has been killed in Strathroy, Ont.

The RCMP were conducting an operation in a residential southwestern Ontario neighbourhood of Strathroy on Wednesday evening after it said credible information of a potential terrorist act was received earlier in the day.

OTTAWA CITY WRIGGLING AWAY FROM RESPONSIBILITY

Who's responsible when there's an injury on publicly accessible private land?

 

WHEN THE RULES DO NOT APPLY

On the same day Abdirahman Abdi was pronounced dead, Ottawa police moved to hire a Somali-Canadian man who had failed a background check, prompting the civilian investigator in charge of vetting officers to resign, Postmedia has learned.

Nothing to see here folks, move along.

 

LIBERAL HYPOCRITES

And documents tabled by Liberal ministers in the House of Commons indicate the communications policies for scientists of the previous government -- policies widely criticized by scientists themselves who felt "muzzled" -- remain in place despite the change in government.

 

SCIENTISTS EVAPORATING UNDER TRUDEAU

The Justin Trudeau government is on pace this year to preside over the biggest-ever recorded cut to the number of federal environment scientists.  The current forecast has just 3,386 science jobs at Environment Canada, which would be nearly 12% fewer than the peak employed two years ago by the Harper government.

 

REWARDING FAITHFUL LIBERALS

Trudeau has vowed to “to remove partisanship and patronage from the upper chamber,”  Now, Trudeau’s vow to create a more non-partisan upper chamber long known as Patronage Heaven may be tested by a prominent West Coast Liberal Party organizer.

 

PROTESTING CANADA'S FIREARMS LAWS

In 2002, Bruce deliberately let his firearms license expire. Donna did the same shortly after. There is no question that they would have been permitted to renew these licences had they chosen to do so, yet they deliberately chose not to as an act of civil disobedience. Their goal was to get themselves arrested and challenge the constitutionality of the law in court.

 

CHRISTIAN AMMUNITION

In a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox, a major evangelical church in Sweden is preparing to use drones to 'bomb' areas of Iraq controlled by Islamic State with thousands of Bibles.

 

 

THROWING MORE MONEY AT USELESS GREEN TECHNOLOGY

What do you do if your catastrophic renewables policies cause power spot price spikes up to $14,000 / MWh ($14 / KWh)? What happens when your green pride is more important than providing affordable, reliable coal power to the people whose interests you claim to represent? You double down and throw more money at useless green technology, of course.

 

CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION FUNDS GO TO HAMAS

The Times of Israel reports that Halabi was Gaza manager of operations for World Vision. One of the largest Christian charities in the world, World Vision operates in about 100 countries and has a budget of $2.6 billion, much of it provided by Western governments and the UN. 

Halabi has been indicted in an Israeli court for funneling 60% of the World Vision budget at his disposal—about $7.2 million a year—to Hamas, the terror organization that runs Gaza. 

 

 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG

Erdogan's fascist supporters take to the internet  with veiled threats, while denying anything is wrong in Turkey.

 

 

ISRAELI-SAUDI TIES WARMING

The Israeli society that I encountered embraces a culture of peace, has accomplishments it wants to (protect), wants coexistence, and wants peace.

Those words weren’t spoken by an enthused congressman after a trip to Israel. They were spoken to BBC Arabic by Abd al-Mujid al-Hakim, director of the Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Policy in Jedda, Saudi Arabia

Hizballah and Iran are livid.

 

 

RIO'S OPENING CEREMONY BOMBS

Then it happened just like that. Boom. The joyous ceremony took a hard turn with a bleak message about global warming and climate change. 

Talk about a buzzkill. The dancing stopped. 

There was little of Costas' "revelry" as organizers delivered their real "message" to the world: Stop global warming or rising seas will drown coastline cities/regions such as Florida, Amsterdam, Dubai, Lagos and, yes, Rio de Janeiro.