UN Security Council Expansion, Van Gogh's Killer: No Remorse, Kyoto, Alberta: Time to Exit?

U.N. can't agree on expanding Security Council

NEW YORK -- The United States said Tuesday that U.N. members are still too divided to vote on reforming the Security Council, dealing a serious blow to a bid by four nations to gain permanent seats on the powerful U.N. decision-making body.

Suggestions for future consideration: Mugabe for Secretary General? Control of the Internet for China? Saudi Arabia? Nigeria? Human Rights by Somalia? Those countries implicated in the UN oil-for-food scandal promoted to the International Court at the Hague? Kyoto implementation by France aided by the only Canadian province allowed to have international stature in asymmetrical Canada, PQ? Quebec to have its own representative on the Security Council? All expenses to be paid by Alberta or TROC? Sorry, I get carried away.

Albertans have had enough.


Time for Alberta to exit, stage right? July 9, 05, Link Byfield, Alberta Senator elect

[. . . . ] Leon Craig, professor emeritus of political science, lays out a case for Alberta to declare unilateral independence. . . . .

Canada, says Craig, has been so badly governed since the Trudeau era, it has doomed itself to a Third World, banana republic fate.

Political corruption gets rewarded instead of punished, productivity slides, and the opportunistic politics of envy becomes the basis of our whole system of national government. [. . . . ]

Update on Allan Cotler, whistleblower "Allan Cutler moves on" Monday, 11 July 2005



Netherlands: Bouyeri, killer of Van Gogh -- "'I don't feel your pain,' suspect tells victim's mom" July 13, 2005, Chicago Sun Times

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed Tuesday, saying he was driven by religious conviction. "I don't feel your pain," he told the victim's mother.

Mohammed Bouyeri . . . . he addressed the victim's mother, Anneke, who was sitting in the public gallery. "I have to admit I don't have any sympathy for you," he said. "I can't feel for you because I think you're a nonbeliever.''

The killing is believed to have been an act of retribution for Van Gogh's film "Submission," which criticized the treatment of women under Islam.

How soon before this happens in Canada? Think of what this woman has said, Irshad Manji (muslimrefusenik.com). Islam's treatment of women is dreadful.



Kyoto floundering in the wake of G8 summit Paul Kelly, July 13, 2005, The Australian

[. . . . ] But Blair then declared that regardless of how many targets the EU reached, that "if we don't have America, China, India taking the action necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then we won't solve climate change".

[. . . . ] The European world view is in decline and Kyoto is a monument to Europe's magnificent cleverness, its use of soft power and its blind faith in regulation and controls.

[. . . . ] It is agreed that the post-2012 system must be global and not just confined to the rich nations. That gives the big energy users such as the US, China and India great leverage over the methodology.

[. . . . ] The future solution will be different from Kyoto. It will be universal. It will involve less "top-down" prescription and more "bottom-up" practical applications. There will be a greater emphasis on innovation, cleaner technologies and lower emitting energy sources. There may well be timetables but they are going to be voluntary, not binding and yes, the new global consensus is a long way off.

Wow! Control from the top doesn't work? Wait for Canada's government to announce the same idea. . . . . . . . . Oh, listen to some music, have a cool one . . . or a few . Might as well be comfortable. It's going to be a loooooooooong wait.

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