The Haileybury School of Mines has aquired a diamond drill. FedNor, the federal funding group, dedicated to Northern Ontario, had provided $161,325 to the college, which was part of a $2.1 million worth of FedNor initiatives for the region. During a press conference at NEOnet, Peter MacLean, executive director at Northern College stated that without the help of FedNor, this would have been an impossible task. The diamond drill had cost around $400,000 and by revitalizing their curriculum, they could train people how to handle the equipment. A diamond drill is used to drill for core samples at locations which had revealed clues to mineral deposits or vains on the surface. A diamond drill can drill deep into the ground (rockbed) and confirm or invalidated by analysing the core samples taken from the depths. The shape and composition of deposits from the core samples will determined if the site is worthwhile to mine. There are various types of dimond drill rigs. Some common types of rigs are portable. tractor or truck-mounted dimond drills. Dimond drill rigs are also used for rock blasting. The students will learn how to set-up a portable dimond drill rig, how to set-up skid frames which enables the rig relocation using a bulldozer or skidder. The students will learn the various diamond core drill bit size and various drilling methods.

People are going to be stressed to no end with everything that is being thrown their way within the next few years. Politicians who represent the New World Order will be messing peoples lives while they bring about their "globalization" agenda. Then there is the ever threat of Muslims and their terrorists brotherhood vying for their "religious" Islamic conquest. On top of that, people are being gouged and being inundated with more bans and "regulations" which restric their lives. Then there are various religions with their phony, man-made pagan God or Gods, and various charities all clamouring for donations to sustain their operations. Then there is people's concern with the real potential of loosing one's job or business, and to top it all off, the unexpected threat of some natural disaster. All this is coming upon people from all sides which people will be facing and are expected to deal and cope with. Yes, the next few years is going to be very challenging and a stressful time for a lot of people. How people will handle it, is anybody's guess.

Brokenhead Ojibway First Nation is suing the Manitoba government, saying the province is circumventing a recent court ruling that found the province has no jurisdiction to ban smoking on reserve land. The band operates the South Beach Casino, located about 50 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Gaming in the province is regulated by the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation. The NDP government, Premier Gary Doer had imposed a province-wide ban on smoking in public places in 2004. The Brokenhead band says the province has no jurisdiction to impose a smoking ban on reserves, and that the lottery corporation is trying to sidestep the courts by making its gaming licences contingent on a no-smoking policy that has no effect on reserves. "The province is trying to force First Nations through policy and economics to do what it cannot do by law," said the chief of the Brokenhead First Nation, Deborah Chief. "These actions are a complete and total disregard for our right to govern ourselves". The province has previously been to court over its smoking ban. A Treherne, Man., bar owner had challenged the law, saying it was unfair that patrons could not smoke at his bar when they could on nearby reserves. While the courts ruled against Jenkinson, they did find that Manitoba's anti-smoking regulations do not apply on First Nations reserves. As Chief Deborah had stated, that the imposed snoking bans are a complete and total disregard for our right to govern ourselves, which should apply to all Canadians as well. At least there are some people here in Canada who will fight for their rights and freedoms, that should put the rest of the smoking public to shame, who have so passively allowed themselves to be bullied by these Anti-smoking campaigns and their perpetrators.

I was not going to deal with the Israeli/Arab Palestinian conflict anymore, but this has a Canadian connection that I believe deserve some mention. It was a courageous act for the representatives of the Harper Government to stand up with the sole "no" vote during a United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution which had strongly condemned Israel's counter-terrorist operations in Hamas-controlled Gaza. The non-binding resolution was adopted on Monday by a coalition of 33 African, Asian, Arab, and South American states, who have always supported the actions of the Hamas terrorists and their civilian supporters. Thirteen European states had abstained from the vote. During the debate on the Israeli/Arab Palestinian conflict, there was no recognition of the fact that Israel's actions in Gaza were initiated in self-defense. The United States and Israel are not members of the United Nations Human Rights Council. I believe in giving credit, where credit is due. It is noteworthy to remind people that the U.N. General Assembly had voted to replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights with the Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2006. Supporters of the Council expressed hope for a "dawn of a new era" in promoting human rights in the United Nations. But the record of the Council has dashed those hopes. After the few years in existence, the new Human Rights Council has proven to be just as bad as its discredited predecessor, which shows how corrupt the entire UN institution is.

I had not intended to ever bring up the topic of Orthodox Jews and their pagan, man-made Canaanite/Babylonian God ever again, but this is an opportunity, another good example to reveal just how deceptive these people can be. I had been informed by a friend to listen to Malkah Fleisher's radio program, titled " The Jews Secret Weapon", with Malkah Fleisher and Rebbe Nachman of Breslov who reveals the Orthodox Jews "secret weapon" on Israel National Radio, which is an Orthodox Jewish Radio Station in Israel. The Orthodox Jews so called, "Secret Weapon", that Malkah Fleisher is talking about on her radio broadcast is very deceptive when it is fully revealed. Malkah Fleisher is asking people on her radio broadcast today, Jan.13th., 2009 to "pray" for rain, when she is fully aware that the weather forecast calls for rain on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for most of the region in Israel. No doubt when it do rain, she will boast to all the people that their pagan, man-made Canaanite/Babylonian God that they have named YHWH, which they often refer to as "Hashem", had heard the people's prayers and sent them the rain. This is how clever and deceptive these Orthodox Jews are, in order to convince Jewish people that they are worshiping the true GOD of Heaven. After having spent a great deal of time listening to many of their "Rebbe", like Rabbi David Aaron, of the Israelite Institute in the Old City of Jerusalem, who talked about such paganized nonsense as why a person soul/spirit can never die, and his claim that a person can re-incarnate into an animal, a vegetable or a rock, which is clearly a pagan adaptation from the Hindu religion. Reincarnation was designed to attain a correction of the soul/spirit during former lives. How that can be accomplished being reincarnated as an animal, a vegetable or a rock, is beyond me, when I know that a person's soul/spirit can never be tramsformed into an animal, a vegetable or rock. A soul/spirit can only re-incarnate directly into a human being. This clearly shows how perverted these "Orthodox" Jews are, and how they have adopted pagan ideas. Other Rabbi teachings I found, are infused with many pagan ideas and superstitions that do not come from GOD. It is sad to find out that the Judaism which these Orthodox Jews ascribe to and teach, is a Canaanite/Babylonian form of Judaism, which is as perverted as Islam, or Christianity. How sad to find out how deluded these people have become! A deceptive people with a deceiving mind. Given this is the case, anyone can understand the reason why I have no interest in Orthodox Judaism or Orthodox Jews when they are an idolatrous people, in that they worship a man-made, pagan, Baal God, and adhere to a man-made, pagan religion. Truly, my heart is deeply sadden and I weep for the nation of Israel.

Speaking of weather forecast, as I was watching the news tonight on my TV, the weather forecaster was calling for frigid northerly winds blowing across the country. Forecast are calling for frigid temperatures from the western prairie provinces, all the way into Quebec. Residents in northern Ontario were also warned about frigid winds, which will make it feel like it is -50°C, which will be the coldest weather we had this winter. I recall my first winter here, we had this type of frigid temperatures in North-eastern Ontario. Right now at Temiskaming Shores, the actual temperature is -33°C. But combined with a northerly wind of 20 km/h, it will produce a wind chill factor of around -45 to -50°C. Frankly, as I found out, it is quite common to have this kind of frigid temperatures around here. On days like this, I would not mind having some of that rhetorical "global warming". It sure would be nice right now.

Jan.16th. 2009; Frigid temperatures continue to hover around the -33°C mark this morning, though Environment Canada is forecasting for temperatures to rise to -17°C over the weekend. This will get us back to normal winter temperatures around here in North-eastern Ontario. It will no doubt feel like balmy weather after all this frigid weather. While provincial and territorial leaders are presenting their lengthy list of new infrastructure projects to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to kick-start and stimulate their economies during the two days of pre-budget consultations, one must keep in mind that the Canadian debt burden is at $583 billion. Adding $40 billion to Canada's $583 billion debt is going to substantially raise the interest on that debt. Unfortunately, we do have to create jobs for ones that have been lost with infrastructure projects at times like these, but I recall that in 2007, the Harper government had once announced money for infrastructure projects under the Building Canada Fund, but nothing was built because projects got bogged down in a lot of bureaucratic and over regulated red tape imposed by various governments.

Some good news is coming from Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty office who is studying ways to speed up the introduction of electric cars to the province. The study is scheduled to be released in May. It will look at financial incentives to encourage drivers to buy electric vehicles, giving such cars "preferred access to the transportation grid", and having the government buy electric vehicles and promoting them.

Because of the high level skill of Pilot Chesley B. (Sully) Sullenberger III, age 57, of Danville, Calif., he had managed to successfully land his crippled jet airplane on the Hudson river. Most people consider that feat a "miracle". Aviation expert Vernon Grose said this incident marks the first time a commercial jet airplane has landed fully in-tacked as it struck the water and had survived. Sullenberger's jet engines were struck by birds, shortly after taking off from New York's LaGuardia Airport. Thanks to the pilot and crew, and all the people who had gone to the aid of the downed jet airplane, along with the cool, level-headed passengers, all of the airline crew and the 155 passengers aboard US Airways Flight 1549 had survived the chilly waters of the Hudson River. The downed jet airplane had remained afloat and was later towed to shore. Investigators are now probing how the near-disaster had happened.

Among scientists, there is an ongoing debate on the cause of global warming, wither is it due to the action of human beings or if it is just part of earth's natural cycle. Evidence shows us that the earth goes through changes in temperature every so often throughout the ages. But Al Gore and his like minded scientists have made it a crusade in 1988 about the rapid rise of global warming due to human activity. Al Gore's "truth" about the rapid rise of global warming is dogged with so many falsehoods and exaggeration one could say that he greatly helped to created the problem he now complains of. For years we have been told that Canada's polar bears are teetering on the brink of extinction. Now, all of sudden, we are hearing from local Inuit experts that Canada's polar bears are not teetering on the brink of extinction and don't need the alarmist rhetoric coming from some of the world's biologists. During a one-day summit where world's biologists, World Wildlife Fund and global warming scientists have discussed the fate of arctic mammals. Scientists warned that vanishing sea ice and over-hunting means two-thirds of the polar bears could be gone within 50 years. Peter Ewins, with the World Wildlife Fund, told the meeting that sea ice is thawing at an alarming rate, putting polar bears at grave risk. The Inuit people who have shared a "personal" relationship with polar bears for thousands of years say the threat is greatly exaggerated. Inuit leaders stated that 50 years ago, there were about 8,000 polar bears in the area of Nunavut. Now, there are over 15,000 polar bears. Nirlungayuk said his grandfather used to hunt polar bears without any government telling him where, and what to hunt. Now, Nirlungayuk said he needs a permit and game tags. Biologists only study polar bears for several months of the year, he said. Inuit people have been living side-by-side with the hulking mammals for centuries. Once again we find out that those so-called "experts", where scientists and biologists are found to have exaggerated on their collitive data. The same can be said about their claim about the vanishing sea ice and the over-hunting of the polar bears. Maybe these "expert scientists" should take a trip to Nunavut and get a good taste of the winter mean temperature of -35ºC (-31ºF) and a mean July temperature of 10ºC (50ºF) that is causing the sea ice to vanish, huh? Conditions in all parts of the territory can become very hazardous when there is a combination of low temperatures and a strong wind which feels more like -50ºC when exposed skin will freeze in seconds in the north, and far north. Here is a direct link to the weather forecast for the region of Nunavut. Frankly, right now I give more credence to what the Inuit people have to say, rather than take the word of those people from the World Wildlife Fund, or those biologists, and their rapid global warming scientists. Local people who live their lives in the area have a far better sense of what is, than what those biologists and scientists tell us with all their fancy global warming data models, computers, and many of their wild theories. Common sense will tell you that if one feeds faulty data in a computer model, you will end up with faulty resaults.

After the debate here in Canada about laying charges on people who practice polygamy, a debate over the practice of men marrying children in Saudi Arabia was back in the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric refusing to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man. Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh says it's OK for a girl aged 10 or 12 to get married, according to a CNN news report. "It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger," Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in remarks quoted Wednesday in the regional Al-Hayat newspaper. "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her. In December, Saudi judge Sheikh Habib Abdallah al-Habib refused to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man. The judge rejected a petition from the girl's mother, whose lawyer said the marriage was arranged by her father to settle a debt with "a close friend." The judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty. Young girls can start puberty between the ages of 8 to 14 years. Not to mention that in this case, the 8-year-old girl is looked upon as a commodity, rather than a human being, that can be bought and sold as a settlement to pay a debt. In Saudi Arabia, the religious establishment holds sway in the courts, and the Judge can only base its finding and judgement upon the Islamic Sharia laws. The issue of child marriage has been a hot-button topic in the Saudi Arabia kingdom in recent weeks. Premier McGuinty did the right thing in blocking the proposal to have Islamic Sharia laws in Ontario, and put an end to the use of these barbaric religious tribunals in determining legal precedent in this province.