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Canadian Content Forums http://forums.canadiancontent.net/ en Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:28 GMT vBulletin 60 http://img.lo4d.com/styles/211/misc/rss.jpg Canadian Content Forums http://forums.canadiancontent.net/ Teachers convey political views to students! http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115916 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:01:49 GMT B.C. teachers win fight over political posters in schools - British Columbia - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/05/21/bc-teachers-political-posters.html) What kind of bullsh*t is this? B.C. teachers win fight over political posters in schools - British Columbia - CBC News

What kind of bullsh*t is this? ]]> In The News JLM http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115916 Saudi Arabia: Five Yemenis beheaded, bodies displayed http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115911 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:50:39 GMT via bcf: *Our Ally! Saudi Arabia: Five Yemenis beheaded, bodies displayed (http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/05/saudi-arabia-five-yemenis-beheaded.html)* Dubai, 21 May - Saudi Arabia today executed five Yemenis and publicly displayed... via bcf:

Our Ally! Saudi Arabia: Five Yemenis beheaded, bodies displayed

Dubai, 21 May - Saudi Arabia today executed five Yemenis and publicly displayed their bodies, local media reported. The five men, among them three brothers, were accused of a number of robberies in several different areas of the country and of killing a Saudi.

Their deaths take the number of executions in Saudi Arabia to at least 45 since the beginning of the year with six this week.

On Monday a Syrian was beheaded after being found guilty of drug trafficking.

Saudi Arabia has the third highest execution rate after China and Iran and it is carried out for crimes including murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy.

The method of execution is usually decapitation with a saber.

Saudi Arabia: Five Yemenis beheaded, bodies displayed - Yemen - ANSAMed.it

Quite easy to find this photo if it grabs you. ]]> International Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115911 Chairman Wynne gets in bed with the dippers http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115908 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:17 GMT via bcf: Image: http://flangedbearings.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/ontario_logo-wynne.jpg *NDP to back Ontario budget and keep minority Liberals in power* Sun News : NDP to back Ontario budget and keep minority Liberals in power... via bcf:

NDP to back Ontario budget and keep minority Liberals in power

Sun News : NDP to back Ontario budget and keep minority Liberals in power ]]> Canadian Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115908 Jodi Arias speaks to jury, pleads for life http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115907 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:59:27 GMT *Jodi Arias speaks to jury, pleads for life* Image: http://wildabouttrial.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Jodi-Arias-cries-in-court-Feb-20-2013.jpg Jodi Arias has told a jury that she can contribute to society from prison if she is allowed to live.... Jodi Arias speaks to jury, pleads for life

Jodi Arias has told a jury that she can contribute to society from prison if she is allowed to live.

Arias addressed the jury Tuesday in the penalty phase of her trial as the panel considers whether to sentence her to life in prison or execution.

She says she'd like to start literacy and recycling programs in prison.

Arias also sayidshe never meant to cause pain to the family of Travis Alexander and that her family kept her from committing suicide.

Her lawyers have said Arias is the only witness they'll call to testify on her behalf.

The judge instructed jurors they can consider a handful of factors when deciding what sentence to recommend, including the fact that Arias has no previous criminal record.

Arias' own attorneys tried to quit the case and asked for a mistrial a day earlier after complaining the trial had become a witch hunt. But the judge swiftly rejected the requests. The defense then said they would call just one witness to testify — Arias herself.

She is set to speak to the jury Tuesday morning. After closing arguments, the jury will begin deliberations and decide whether Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or face the ultimate punishment for the June 2008 shooting and stabbing death of boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home.

Arias claimed self-defence

Arias initially claimed she knew nothing about the slaying. Then she blamed masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defense. Prosecutors argued she killed Alexander in a jealous rage because he wanted to end their relationship and go to Mexico with another woman.

The 32-year-old former waitress spent 18 days on the witness stand during the guilt phase of her trial, describing an abusive childhood, cheating boyfriends, dead-end jobs, a shocking sexual relationship with Alexander, and her contention that he had grown physically violent.

Jurors didn't believe her then, and experts say they likely will show no mercy now.

The victim suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, his throat was slit from ear to ear, and he was shot in the forehead. Arias then dragged him into his shower, where his decomposed body was found days later.

"I think they could put Mother Teresa on there, and it's not going to spare her life," said Phoenix defense attorney Mel McDonald, a former judge and federal prosecutor.

San Francisco-area criminal defense lawyer Michael Cardoza said her attorneys' request to quit the case and the defense decision not to call any witnesses on Arias' behalf could very well be a strategic move — but one that could backfire.

"She could argue ineffective counsel on appeal, but the fact is, it's anything but ineffective because what they're doing is handing her an appeal," Cardoza said. "So it's actually very effective counsel."

Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi renewed his arguments in court on Monday that the judge should have sequestered the jury during the trial and that it should never have been broadcast live.

"The court had a duty to protect Ms. Arias' right to a fair trial, and failed to do so time and time again," Nurmi told the judge. "This cannot be a modern-day version of ... a witch trial."

Judge Sherry Stephens denied the mistrial request, prompting Nurmi to ask that he and co-counsel Jennifer Willmott be allowed to withdraw from the case. The judge swiftly denied that request, as well.

Gave post-conviction interview

Arias' attorneys also tried without success to quit after she gave her post-conviction TV interview.

"Longevity runs in my family, and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place," Arias told Fox affiliate KSAZ from a holding cell inside the courthouse. "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it."

Last week, Alexander's brother and sister tearfully described for the jury how his killing had torn their lives apart. This week, the defense planned to call its own witnesses, including a female friend and an ex-boyfriend of Arias, in hopes of convincing the jury her life is worth saving. They scrapped that plan, however, after claiming one key witness refused to testify after receiving death threats, then indicated to the judge Arias would be the only one speaking on her behalf.

While jurors are admonished daily not to pay attention to news accounts of the trial or discuss it with anyone, experts say many details would have been hard to avoid.

"In today's society, you can't help but hear or see things whether you're in the grocery line or walking by a newsstand," Cardoza said. "It's naive to think there are no outside influences that reach them."

Some also speculate that Arias might have been trying to play to jurors with her proclamation in the TV interview that she would rather die, hoping the panel won't give her what she says she wants.

"She has manipulated this jury before," said Phoenix defense lawyer Julio Laboy. "She could very well still be manipulating the jury."

source: Jodi Arias speaks to jury, pleads for life - World - CBC News

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HOLD NO??!! Wasn't she just asking for death last week.. **cough** Change of Heart.? LOL ]]> In The News B00Mer http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115907 Harper’s speech was a chance to be accountable. He blew it - http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115906 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:41:02 GMT Harper- accountability- just another phrase for him - And he is headed out of Dodge.
Harper not happy- Well that makes all the difference now doesn't it.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...als-rain-down/

Stephen Harper’s speech was a chance to be accountable. He blew it | Full Comment | National Post

Stephen Harper had a golden opportunity to say sorry to Canadians and his caucus for the Senate expenses scandal; to explain what he knew, when; and, to put forward some concrete proposals to restore the public’s faith in Parliament.

In short, his speech to caucus was a chance to be accountable. He blew it.

He expressed his unhappiness with the unspecified conduct of “some parliamentarians” and his own office and then patted himself on the back for taking “unprecedented measures” to improve accountability. Canada now has a system of governance that is the envy of the world, “something Canadians are rightly proud of”.

But pride is not the sentiment many voters are expressing to their MPs, judging by the blowback they are hearing in their ridings. “We’re taking the heat on the doorstep because of the behaviour of an unelected senator,” said one Conservative MP.

Sorry is always the hardest word for this Prime Minister, who is now en route to Peru for no apparent good reason, beyond the fact it gets him the hell out of Dodge.

The overriding impression left by the Prime Minister’s speech was that the whole Duffy Affair is an inconvenience —he called it “a distraction” — from the government’s economic agenda. Which, of course, it is.

But ethics, accountability and principled government are core to the Conservative agenda too — that’s why many people voted for the party.

This scandal can’t be wished away simply by urging caucus: “Let’s get back to work.” They are making tee-shirts in Prince Edward Island bearing the legend: ”Stuff the Duff” and a cartoon of Mike Duffy being stuffed in a garbage can.

Conservative MPs are, for the first time in my experience, talking about open mutiny. “The question for my caucus colleagues is increasingly: Who is for Harper and who is for the party that will, hopefully, outlast him?”

This story is not going away until the Prime Minister gives us some answers. ]]> In The News Goober http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115906 The Chinese Google hack http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115905 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:48:59 GMT Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials. The breach appears... Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.

The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may have been under surveillance by American law enforcement agencies.

It’s unclear how much the hackers were able to discover. But former U.S. officials familiar with the breach said the Chinese stood to gain valuable intelligence. The database included information about court orders authorizing surveillance — orders that could have signaled active espionage investigations into Chinese agents who maintained e-mail accounts through Google’s Gmail service.
“Knowing that you were subjects of an investigation allows them to take steps to destroy information, get people out of the country,” said one former official, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a highly sensitive matter. The official said the Chinese could also have sought to deceive U.S. intelligence officials by conveying false or misleading information.

Although Google disclosed an intrusion by Chinese hackers in 2010, it made no reference to the breach of the database with information on court orders. That breach prompted deep concerns in Washington and led to a heated, months-long dispute between Google and the FBI and Justice Department over whether the FBI could access technical logs and other information about the breach, according to the officials.

Google declined to comment for this article, as did the FBI.

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Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say - The Washington Post ]]> In The News Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115905 <![CDATA[Summer to rank among Canada's warmest on record]]> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115904 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:23:23 GMT Summer to rank among Canada's warmest on record;
typical temperatures predicted for Metro Vancouver

Southwestern British Columbia should expect typical summer temperatures this year, although the southern interior will see more heat than usual.

That’s the prediction of meteorologists at AccuWeather.com, which said in its summer outlook Monday that Canadians in general will experience hot spells interspersed with cooler periods.

However, it will be more of the same in Metro Vancouver and Victoria.

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“Temperatures will be fairly close to normal right along Vancouver and the surrounding suburbs and Vancouver Island,” said AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist Jack Boston of their forecast for June, July and August.

“But it will be hotter temperatures in Kamloops and further east.”

Boston said he doesn’t expect there will be a strong offshore flow of air from the mainland to the Pacific Ocean, with the dominant flow of air instead coming in off the Pacific Ocean.

“(Southwestern B.C.) will get a cooling effect from the Pacific, but in the interior it will be warmer and drier.”

He noted that typical summer temperatures for Vancouver are highs in June of 18 to 20 degrees, 21 to 22 in July and 20 to 21 in August; and lows for the same three months of 11, 12 and 12 respectively.

Total rainfall, he added, should also be in the typical range for the three-month period of between 85 and 90 millimetres.

Despite the AccuWeather.com prediction, Global B.C. senior meteorologist Mark Madryga said long-term forecasts shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

“We could have the coldest June on record, the hottest July on record and an average August. And that would smooth out to a typical pattern (over a three-month period), for sure.

“But it really isn’t that much information,” added Madryga, who believes shorter-term forecasts are more detailed and accurate. “I’ve seen the charts and they’re suggesting the overall summer will be near-average temperatures, which is good. But when you group it as a seasonal forecast, it doesn’t really give much detail over the (entire) summer. I wouldn’t bet your farm on it.”

According to AccuWeather.com, Canada as a whole will experience more typical summer weather in 2013 compared to the record-setting, warm summer of 2012.

“However, we still expect the summer of 2013 to end up ranking in the top 10 warmest summers as the far north continues to experience well above-normal temperatures,” AccuWeather.com said.

“The biggest take-away from this forecast is it’s not going to resemble last year’s summer, which was the warmest summer on record for Canada,” Brett Anderson, lead forecaster for Canada, added.

“We’re going to see much more changeable weather. Yes, we will have spells of heat, we will have spells of very dry weather but we do not expect patterns where it’s going to lock in for weeks on end of hot dry weather.”

Meanwhile, the weather in southern Ontario is expected to be pleasant, with hot periods broken up by what’s expected to be cooler days, although some thunderstorms are expected earlier in the season.

“Overall the humidity, the temperature, is going to be fairly pleasant across much of southern Ontario this summer,” Anderson said.

Areas of the northern coast of British Columbia are also expected to get a fair amount of rainfall this summer.

Anderson noted that Canadian summers in general have been getting hotter over time.

“Overall, Canadian summers are getting warmer. We’ve seen an increase of 1.4 Celsius since records began in 1948,” he said. “Canadian summers are also getting a little bit wetter ... part of that reason is also the warming of the far North.”

]]> In The News B00Mer http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115904 RIP Ray http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115902 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:35:49 GMT Ray Manzarek The best organ solo ever. Boston 1970 (edit) - YouTube

The Doors-The End [FULL] - YouTube ]]> Cannuck http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115902 Next time a Sars Virus or a Coronavirus pops up- Does this make you feel safe- rights http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115900 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:21:03 GMT Next time a Sars Virus or a Coronavirus pops up- Does this make you feel safe- rights to the vaccine may trump research into finding a vaccine. Time for WHO to have an agreement that is enforceable- to make the virus available to approved centers for... Next time a Sars Virus or a Coronavirus pops up- Does this make you feel safe- rights to the vaccine may trump research into finding a vaccine.

Time for WHO to have an agreement that is enforceable- to make the virus available to approved centers for research.
Fuk me - Crats are gonna kill more of us.

Saudi coronavirus work stymied at Canadian lab - Canada - CBC News

The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is working with a sample of the new coronavirus that’s causing clusters of infections abroad — but can't share the material with other researchers across the country despite the public health urgency.

It was a Dutch lab that sent a Saudi sample of the virus to Winnipeg, where scientists are looking for better ways to diagnose and treat the infection. So far, 41 confirmed cases and 20 deaths have been recorded.

But before they could start, officials had to sign a material transfer agreement, a contract that outlines the terms and conditions for using the coronavirus sample.

The Dutch "had pretty tight restrictions around how it could be used," Frank Plummer, scientific director of the National Microbiology Laboratory, said in an interview. "So there was a lot of negotiation and a lot of lawyers involved both with us and the Americans and others around the world, which slowed things down quite a bit."

Such agreements exist for different reasons — sometimes because countries want to make sure a dangerous bug won't fall into the wrong hands, sometimes because they want to exert their rights if a vaccine or treatment is developed. But the agreements also impede the research process, say scientists.

"We can't distribute [the virus] any further, which is a problem, because a lot of people would like to be working on this and can't," Plummer said.

In contrast, Plummer said China simply gave away samples of the H7N9 bird flu virus, as did Mexico with H1N1 swine flu in 2009.

The researcher who first spotted the coronavirus in 2012 lost his job for sending it out of Saudi Arabia.

Ali Mohamed Zaki discovered the deadly pathogen last June at a microbiology lab at the Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Zaki had been investigating the case of a 60-year-old man with a lung infection who died 18 days after symptoms started. When he couldn't identify the virus, he sent it to Ron Fouchier, a Dutch researcher who was able to sequence it. It was a coronavirus — never before seen in humans.

Zaki said he also sent samples and clinical data to the Saudi health ministry, which did nothing. He also emailed a warning to ProMED, an international website for medical alerts, which helped doctors in the U.K. identify the world's second-known case.
A colourized transmission electron micrograph showing the crown-shaped coronavirus that emerged in 2012. A colourized transmission electron micrograph showing the crown-shaped coronavirus that emerged in 2012. (U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

He was later fired from the hospital. It seems Saudi officials were upset Zaki gave away samples of the virus.

"It was the president of the hospital that said they don't want me to stay there anymore," Zaki explained. The hospital president said, "'They [Saudi officials] are forcing me to fire you. If you come back, they will make big trouble for you.'"

Ziad Memish, the Saudi deputy minister for public health, told the journal Nature News that Zaki "either intentionally or inadvertently" circumvented national procedures. In an email to CBC News, Memish said simply, "the Nature piece describes things very clearly."

Zaki said he recognizes the value of giving away the virus, despite the professional consequences he faced.

"I am happy to be fired because I did a favour for humankind," Zaki said. "I don't regret about anything."

Zaki and Fouchier's team published a case report about the original patient in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 2012. CBC News was unable to reach Fouchier for comment.
SARS experience

The World Health Organization says, since then, infections are known to have occurred in six countries: the United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and France. All cases have had a link to the Middle East.

"We still get the occasional cluster of infection," Gregory Hartl, media officer for WHO's communicable disease branch, said this week. "What we've seen in Saudi Arabia in May 2013 is the biggest single cluster."

Until doctors and researchers know how the virus works, it can't be controlled, Hartl said.

Hartl wouldn't comment on how material transfer agreements might limit international scientific collaboration, but notes "in general, the more we know about this virus, the better the world is."

"We need international collaboration and scientists are fully aware of the need to collaborate internationally. And of course there are… many concerns, intellectual property, publishing concerns," he said.

"The more work that is done on this, the faster we'll be able to learn something really useful and helpful to our efforts in the field to control the virus."

He suggested that all countries should look more closely at unexplained instances of severe respiratory illness and test them to make sure they're not dealing with the new coronavirus. The virus is named for the crown-like appearance it has under an electron microscope.

Those preliminary tests are possible because of the genetic sequencing laboratory work done in the Netherlands. Zaki also recognizes the experience of SARS, another member of the coronavirus family that killed 774 worldwide, including 44 in Toronto, a decade ago.

"Now we have a virus before us without an outbreak and the scientific community have a diagnostic test, so we are in a very better situation [than] with SARS." ]]> In The News Goober http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115900 <![CDATA['Major damage' as huge tornado rips through neighborhoods south of Oklahoma City]]> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115898 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:52:50 GMT 'Major damage' as huge tornado rips through neighborhoods south of Oklahoma City - Mon May 20, 2013

MOORE, Okla. (May 20, 2013)—A powerful tornado mile-wide tornado flattened schools, homes and buildings Monday afternoon as it moved through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

At least one school was damaged.

Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department said the school sustained "extensive damage," but did not know if there were injuries.

TV reports, however, indicated two elementary schools were damaged and that as many as 75 students and teachers were trapped under rubble in one of them.

Reports indicated 30 children were pulled from the rubble alive, but it's not clear whether they were among the larger group.

Rescuers were going door-to-door through neighborhoods, searching homes and shelters.

The tornado first touched down in Newcastle, Okla. and moved east across southern Moore before crossing Interstate 35.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives canceled its afternoon sessions so Capitol employees and state lawmakers could take shelter.

Sirens blared and workers made their way to the Capitol basement.

Oklahoma City's southeastern suburbs were hit by a storm Sunday that produced a tornado in which two people died.

The suburb of Moore, where Monday's damage was concentrated, was hit hard by a tornado on May 3, 1999 that generated the highest winds ever recorded near the earth's surface.

Tornado levels homes, a school, in Oklahoma City suburb - CNN.com

'Major damage' as huge tornado rips through neighborhoods south of Oklahoma City - U.S. News

LIVE TV: Tornado strikes Oklahoma - Video on NBCNews.com

These poor people who have been going through economic hardship.. and now this.. these poor, poor people.. my heart goes out to them all..

Live Tornado ( Epic Footage ) Oklahoma Large Deadly : Category 5 Newest 5/20/2013 - YouTube

Oklahoma tornado carves trail of destruction - CBS News Video

Severe tornado tears through Oklahoma City suburb - CBS News Video

75 students trapped under cars and rubble in school.. gas leaking.. they are having problems getting to the school to help the children. ]]> In The News B00Mer http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115898 Errors by the party in power can get America into trouble http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115897 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:38 GMT ; real catastrophes require consensus. via bcf: http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/05/dumb-and-dumber.html Rarely have both parties been as unanimous about a development overseas as they have in their shared enthusiasm for the so-called... ; real catastrophes require consensus.

via bcf: http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca...nd-dumber.html

Rarely have both parties been as unanimous about a development overseas as they have in their shared enthusiasm for the so-called Arab Spring during the first months of 2011. Republicans vied with the Obama Administration in their zeal for the ouster of Egypt's dictator Hosni Mubarak and in championing the subsequent NATO intervention against Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. Both parties saw themselves as having been vindicated by events. The Obama Administration saw its actions as proof that soft power in pursuit of humanitarian goals offered a new paradigm for foreign-policy success. And the Republican establishment saw a vindication of the Bush freedom agenda.

They were all wrong.

Dumb and Dumber :: Middle East Forum ]]> US-American Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115897 Man gets Prostrate removed http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115896 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:04:27 GMT *Brit becomes first in world to have prostate removed due to faulty gene* A British businessman at risk of prostate cancer has become the first in the world to have the organ removed The 53-year-old, who has not been identified, discovered that... Brit becomes first in world to have prostate removed due to faulty gene

A British businessman at risk of prostate cancer has become the first in the world to have the organ removed

The 53-year-old, who has not been identified, discovered that he was carrying a “faulty” BRCA2 gene that has been linked to aggressive forms of both breast and prostate cancer.

The pre-emptive action will greatly reduce his chances of developing the disease.

A similar decision was recently taken by Angelina Jolie, the actress, who had a double mastectomy after testing positive for the defective BRCA1 gene which led to the death of her mother from breast cancer.

The British man, who is married with children, said he was keen to avoid the fate of relatives who had suffered from either breast or prostate cancer.

Doctors were initially reluctant to carry out the procedure, according to reports, as removing the prostate can have serious consequences.

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Brit becomes first in world to have prostate removed due to faulty gene - Telegraph ]]> In The News tay http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115896 LA targets Las Vegas hospital for patient dumping practices http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115895 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:33:44 GMT I'd agree with someone quoted in the article. If true, this is pretty abhorrent stuff.

Multiple agencies, including the Los Angeles city attorney's office, are investigating whether Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada's primary public mental health facility, has been systematically dumping patients across state lines for years.

A Bee investigation found that the hospital had bused roughly 1,500 psychiatric patients to cities across the nation over the past five years, a third of them to California. By policy, those patients were put on buses alone, with one-way tickets out of town, a small supply of medication and several bottles of Ensure nutritional supplement for the journey.

In one case, a paraplegic was dropped off on Skid Row with a catheter still connected and still wearing a hospital gown. He was found dragging himself through the gutter... ]]> In The News Tonington http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115895 Two Additional Fox News Staffers Targeted By Obama DOJ… http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115892 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:02:02 GMT Megyn Kelly just announced Fox News reporter William LaJeunesse and a producer were also targeted by the DOJ. Will update when I find a story. *Update*: Chilling stuff. Via John Nolte... Megyn Kelly just announced Fox News reporter William LaJeunesse and a producer were also targeted by the DOJ. Will update when I find a story.

Update: Chilling stuff.

Via John Nolte:

Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama’s Justice Department. Fox doesn’t have all the details yet on a reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Either their emails were leaked by the Justice Department officials they were sent to, or the email accounts of both were subpoenaed and invaded by government investigators.

The IG report does say that subpoenas were issued to obtain emails. Whose email was targeted is not yet known.

The third staffer is reporter James Rosen. The Washington Post’s story behind that is downright chilling. What we have here is a case of the Obama Administration criminalizing reporting.

Keep reading…

Still nothing to see here?

]]> US-American Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115892 Anti-black grafitti written by . . . black student http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115891 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:19 GMT Agoura High: Anti-black grafitti written by . . . black student - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHaD1Q8ASA) Racist Graffiti, Death Threats Target Black Students At Agoura High School Â« CBS Los Angeles... Agoura High: Anti-black grafitti written by . . . black student - YouTube

Racist Graffiti, Death Threats Target Black Students At Agoura High School Â« CBS Los Angeles ]]> In The News Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115891 World obedience http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115890 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:58 GMT World obedience… What extreme are groups of careerisms? Most ambitions come to leftish ways elitisms. What to says as mutual trusts of social does and ways between our chinagoverned leaders should have a polar things that beside that all but...
World obedience…

What extreme are groups of careerisms?

Most ambitions come to leftish ways elitisms.

What to says as mutual trusts of social does and ways between our chinagoverned leaders should have a polar things that beside that all but leftishcareerisms.

In our china phases of inner struggles made by Maoism social also armiesfighting that are china years of civil got revolutions.

All are social confusions but in spite that for those social peoplespoor and needy also social frustrations some as china BOFFINS also some aschina scientists like CHI HOT SAM or LEE GEN DO and someone other made theirfirst atomic bombs and rockets those as missiles.

China worlds of leftish groups’ elitisms all are worlds’ extremes. Nowyou see as what our china does for United- nation obedience. Most of us andworlds should please them as they should say the yes as like.

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]]> International Politics cauchy3 http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115890 <![CDATA[A Bunch of Squishy Lefties Want to "Update" Queen Vicky's Holiday]]> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115888 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:47:37 GMT via scaramouche

Oh, that Queen Victoria. She's so imperialistic and privileged and, well, Victorian. Wouldn't it be nice to change the name of her Canadian holiday to reflect the identity group mentality of guilt-ridden white leftists (propose some guilt-ridden, white leftists)?:

A group that includes some prominent Canadian actors, writers and politicians is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day.

Author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and actor Gordon Pinsent are among those behind an online petition to rename the public holiday, which is celebrated on Monday, as "Victoria and First Peoples Day."

Peter Keleghan, an actor and spokesman for the group, says the new name would give Canadians a chance to honour both the Crown and the indigenous peoples of Canada.

"I know there is a great deal of monarchists in this country but I think also that there is also an awful lot of talk about how First Nations people, Inuit people, indigenous people in this country are being treated," he said Sunday.

I think "Victoria and First Peoples Day" isn't nearly inclusive enough. I say we rename it "Victoria and First Peoples and Transgendered and Free Palestine and Africentric and anti-Islamophobia and Human Rights Day."

A bit of a tongue-twister, I'll grant you, but ever so much more "diverse," don't you think?

Scaramouche!: A Bunch of Squishy Lefties Want to "Update" Queen Vicky's Holiday
]]> Canadian Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115888 4G to debut in Shanghai next month http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115887 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:48 GMT *4G to debut in Shanghai next month* (http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214613298/scat/9366300fc9319e9b/ht/4G-to-debut-in-Shanghai-next-month) 4G services, which provide mobile users with internet access up... 4G to debut in Shanghai next month
4G services, which provide mobile users with internet access up to 50 times faster than the current 3G network, will be launched in Shanghai next month when the China Mobile company begins large-scale trials. The fourth generation of mobile phone mobile communication technology standards orm 4G provides users with high-speed internet access on devices such as phones, data cards and MiFi ... ]]> In The News china http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115887 A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115883 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:41:10 GMT **Tracked movements via key card, traced calls, searched email... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html) **When the Justice Department began... Tracked movements via key card, traced calls, searched email...

When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.

They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit. They traced the timing of his calls with a State Department security adviser suspected of sharing the classified report. They obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal e-mails.

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h/t drudge ]]> US-American Politics Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115883 <![CDATA[I Guess They Didn't Have Anything More Important to Do.]]> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115880 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:10:41 GMT EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil

By Charlie Dunmore
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil.
From January 1, 2014, eateries will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls, and forced instead to use pre-sealed, non-refillable bottles that must be disposed of when empty.
The European Commission said the move is designed to improve hygiene and reassure consumers the olive oil in restaurants has not been diluted with an inferior product.
But critics say the rules are a sop to Europe's olive oil producers, and will only add to the frustration felt by many towards a bloated EU bureaucracy regarded as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Europeans.
"If the European Union was logical and properly run, people wouldn't be so anti-Europe. But when it comes up with crazy things like this, it quite rightly calls into question their legitimacy and judgment," said Marina Yannakoudakis, a British Conservative member of the European Parliament.
The Commission said its proposal was supported by 15 out of 27 EU member governments, including the continent's main olive oil producers - Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal - which are among the countries worst affected by the euro crisis.
"The fact that the EU is the world's major producer of olive oil - for up to 70 percent of the olive oil globally - perhaps this is even more than just a good consumer story for European citizens," commission spokesman Oliver Drewes told reporters.
Yannakoudakis said the Commission's defence of the plans highlighted how out of touch their priorities were.
"The economic crisis in these countries isn't because of olive oil, it's because of the euro, and they should be concentrating on solving that problem," she told Reuters by telephone.
Germany opposed the plans in a vote by EU government officials behind closed doors, while Britain - which regularly cites perceived meddling from Brussels as the reason for its strained relationship with Europe - abstained.
German newspaper Sueddetsche Zeitung described the plan as "the weirdest decision since the legendary curvy cucumber regulation", referring to now-defunct EU rules on the shape of fruit and vegetables sold in supermarkets.
The regulations are based on rules in force in Portugal since 2005, and are part of an EU initiative to help olive oil producers hit by rising operating costs and falling profits in recent years.
But Enzo Sica, owner of Italian restaurant Creche des Artistes close to the EU quarter of Brussels, said the rules would prevent him from buying his extra virgin olive oil direct from a traditional supplier in Italy.
"They say they're thinking about consumers, but this will increase costs for us and our customers as well. In this time of crisis, surely they should be worrying about other things rather than stupid stuff like this."

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Okay so this one way trip to Mars, any chance we can find a way to fit all the politicians on board? Unbelievable! I am so sick of politicians and their stupidity. And I do mean the whole lot of them too, by the way. ]]> International Politics SLM http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115880 diamonds are for Deep Fraud http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115879 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:01:30 GMT More fun & games in Farm country...
Saskatchewan man charged with diamond stock scam

But by 2012-diamonds are for 'definite detention'
SEC Obtains Summary Judgment Against Four Defendants in CMKM Diamonds Case ]]> Hot Topics hunboldt http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115879 Panda exhibit opens at Toronto Zoo http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115877 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:54:05 GMT Panda exhibit opens at Toronto Zoo - Toronto - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/05/17/toronto-pandas-zoo.html) So we went to the Toronto Zoo yesterday. Yes, the long weekend. Opening of the exhibit. There were a few... Panda exhibit opens at Toronto Zoo - Toronto - CBC News

So we went to the Toronto Zoo yesterday. Yes, the long weekend. Opening of the exhibit.

There were a few people there.

Let me walk you through the great journey.

So it was reminiscent of hitting the urinals at the old Maple Leaf Gardens. Line-ups to pee. This is because there were about 18 million people at the Zoo that day. The girls made out much worse than we guys. They were gone for nearly an hour.

But then my spirits lifted as we could finally move toward the big arch thingy and go see these bears. Red-shirt guy lost his wife.

Anywho, we got to walk, shuffle and wade through a myriad of 'velvet ropelines' that funneled Zoo 'guests' up and down and to and fro and we zigged and zagged as we moved about the next open area towards the building where these bastards were on display. Had time to smoke two cigarettes during this exercise.

Then the large, um, 'Interpretive Tent' came into view beyond an concrete parkette kinda area and there were many more rope lines to ziggity zag thru for crowd control and to cram as many bodies into this rigid 'tent' as possible. 'The pandas must be inside there' I said to myself.

Finally in we go and it's sorta like a grade 8 science fair with signs and murals and graphics and the occasional tv monitor and stool for 'patrons' to sit, relax and hear all about these panda bears ya know. Yeah. But no ropes inside this 8,000 sq. ft. space so everyone pretty much shuffled along the moving twitching mass of bodies towards the end of the building. Perhaps we were being taken to the 'showers'.

After about 15 minutes we make it to a door that led back outside. Well ok then, the pandas will be out there I figure.

Then we walk along another path and see yet another building and enclosed compound about 100 feet away. That's where the line kinda 'slowed down' again. Slowed down.

There were friendly happy shiny staff holding stalks of bamboo for us to look at as we inched by. In the distance I could hear another happy staffer (Brandon I think his name was) telling the few people outside all about the natural habitat of pandas and that their poop (the pandas, not the staff) was bright green and they pooped a lot because they had a carnivore's stomach but yet ate wood.

Then we were getting really close now. The doorway was one of those PVC vinyl air barriers, slitted like the magic fingers of the local car wash. You tried to hold them open but it's like walking through the brush and all those branches snapping back and slapping your cheek or taking your eye out because the idiot ahead let go of it too quickly.

Inside.

It was darkish in this little viewing area and smelled like humidity, B.O.

Brandon reminded us all that there were a lot of people and for us to be 'patient' and for us to also let the people behind us press up against the glass to see the first panda. I remarked to my lady that I thought Brandon was being particularly helpful because of the long weekend opening day of and first crack at, these pandas. I smiled and elbowed a few smaller people out of the way to take a picture of the pandette.

I think there was snot or something smeared on the glass but I think it's a dandy shot.

Of course there is another bear somewhere so we moved along with the current of sweaty people and crying babies towards the far PVC curtain and made our egress into the open air. This was the compound of the male panda.

He was rubbing himself against a rock.

So there it was. I'd seen them.

On the way out the line had to pass by a little 'gift shop' where they sold all things panda. Being a good boy, I knew that I should get something nice for my gal as she surely loves her collection of stuffed bears. In I go, pushing past the children and cripples until I snatch the largest plush bear they have to offer. It's about 13 inches tall and I gave the young man at the register $45 for it too.

The Giant Panda exhibit at The Toronto Zoo.

Steven Harper, a bunch of people from Toronto, Calgary and China arranged for 10 years of this in our fine land.

You should go.

But maybe on a Tuesday morning or something.

Not on a long weekend.

Be sure to say hello to Brandon for me. ]]> In The News Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115877 Meanwhile, in the Canadian arctic... http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115875 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:24:22 GMT Russian explorers headed home Thursday after proving it is possible to drive from Russia to Canada across the North Pole, in buses with bloated tires over drifting ice, using a pickaxe to clear the way. ... Russian explorers headed home Thursday after proving it is possible to drive from Russia to Canada across the North Pole, in buses with bloated tires over drifting ice, using a pickaxe to clear the way.

Their two-and-a-half-month hitherto untried odyssey aimed to road test the hand-crafted vehicles on ice and water, conduct a few scientific experiments, and bring together a band of adventurers drawn to the vast and pristine Arctic, expedition leader Vassili Ielaguine said during a stopover in Ottawa.

At the "speed of a (farm) tractor" or about 10 kilometers per hour (6.2 miles/h) and carrying three tonnes of donated diesel fuel and supplies, they traveled more than 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in 70 days from the Russian archipelago Severnaya Zemlya (or Earth North), after being dropped off by a Russian icebreaker, to the pole and then to Resolute Bay in Canada's far north.

Their two bright red vehicles were built around two-liter Toyota diesel engines and using old parts from prototypes that some of the team had used back in 2009 to drive from Russia to the North Pole and double back.

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Russians drive from Russia to Canada over North Pole ]]> In The News Locutus http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115875 Windows 8.1 will be a free update June 26 http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115873 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:33 GMT Well it seem after all the complaints not having a Start option in Windows 8 . I believe Windows 8.1 will and its going to be a free update http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/14/windows-keeps-getting-better.aspx Well it seem after all the complaints not having a Start option in Windows 8 . I believe Windows 8.1 will and its going to be a free update

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/b...ng-better.aspx ]]> 905dude http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115873 Oil markets fall under the suspicion of price-fixing on a global scale http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115872 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:36:33 GMT IT IS a lesson of the past five years that benchmarks in unregulated markets can fall victim to the incentives they create. Subprime mortgages bundled into securities often won high scores from ratings agencies that stood to profit in a busy market. The... IT IS a lesson of the past five years that benchmarks in unregulated markets can fall victim to the incentives they create. Subprime mortgages bundled into securities often won high scores from ratings agencies that stood to profit in a busy market. The London Interbank Offered Rate, LIBOR, was sometimes underestimated by banks which were cast in a healthier light by lower interest rates.

Has something similar been going on in energy?

That is the suspicion after a series of raids on May 14th by the European Commission’s competition authorities. The commission declared that it feared oil companies had “colluded” to distort benchmark prices for crude, oil products and biofuels. Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Norway’s Statoil and Italy’s ENI (which was not raided) all said that they were co-operating with the commission. The competition authorities also called on the London offices of Platts, a subsidiary of McGraw Hill, an American publisher and business-information firm, which sets reference prices for these commodities.

Trading in oil: Libor in a barrel | The Economist ]]> In The News tay http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=115872