While Canada and every other nations are trying to combat terrorism in which Muslims are perpetuating around the world, the United Nations is launching an appeal for 613 million dollars to help Muslim terrorists and their supporters in the Gaza Strip. This is what is happening while the war against Muslim terrorists is going on. So what is the United Nations doing? It is supplying funds to a bunch of Muslims who support the efforts of terrorism. What a crazy situation this entire war on terrorism is. As far as I am concerned, the United Nations should be charged for aiding and abetting terrorists groups. In the meantime, Foreign Minister Abdul Gheit of Egypt has accused Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah of trying to use the war in Gaza to cause a wider regional conflict in order to divert attention from Tehran's efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb. What a crazy world we are living in. The United Nations and the Middle East have gone totally nuts!

To get back into a bit of sanity, I came across this artical Posted By Mark Gentili in The Northern Times that is noteworthy. It is titled; "Time Travelling Cops". The artical is about the OPP Commemorative Patrol which pays tribute to its northern connection in the force’s birth. If it was not for the booming resource industry in Northern Ontario, and a need to keep rowdy miners and bushworkers in line, the Ontario Provincial Police might never have evolved into what it is today, one of the largest standing police forces in North America. The 5,000 officers owe a great deal to the men who, starting in 1909, policed the remote stretches of Northern Ontario in a most unconventional manner. Living on the trail, these men, more often than not travelling alone, patrolled by whatever means they could, travelling hundreds of kilometres by snowshoe and dogsled, hitching rides on wagons and trains. Their provincially mandated mission: to impose law and order in the lumber camps and mining towns that were springing up across the north. That frontier presence is being celebrated by the OPP Commemorative Patrol, an event that will see two OPP officers don period gear, and travel over 1,000 kilometres by rail, snowshoe and dogsled, stopping at the sites of the OPP’s earliest outposts to educate the public about the force’s history. The patrol kicks off in Hearst this Sunday. It’s a salute to the hardiness, resourcefulness and determination of those men, said Const. Jennifer Nolet, the community services officer at the Hearst Detachment.

The gull U.S. President Barack Obama has, to come to Canada after having insulted Canadians with his economic stimulus bill which passed by the House, section 1110 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which states; "None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this act may be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public building or public work unless all of the iron and steel used in the project is produced in the United States". I suppose section 1110 also includes lumber, plywood and maybe even oil. After having shot the first salvo, this may well lead to a trade war with Canada. Something some Canadians politicians are contemplating, like placing a tariff on everything that comes into Canada from the USA. Which I might add, is quite considerable, given that most merchandize in our stores, come from the USA. Canadian companies may have to get used to selling their products that would ordinary be heading towards the USA, to sell to Canadian and other export markets. What we normally import from the USA, get those items from other sources. Barack Obama had better cancel his trip to Canada for he will not be very well received by most Canadians. They may run that two-faced cheeky clown right out of town. We can see Obama was not honest during his campaign trail when he stated that he would not take the protectionist route. Had Obama been honest and stated that he would use protectionist messures when asked about it, Canadians would not have been shocked at the sudden about-face change. This is a hell of a way to start a relationship with Canada and Canadians. Because of Obama's dishonesty, he has managed to alienate Canada and half the world with his sudden about-face doctrine of protectionist messures. All this he acomplished within the first week of his Presidency. What a blunder! What a way to start his Presidency. Anyway, it will be around mid-February for that bill to be signed into law by Obama's desk. We will see what developes by then. Personally, I am in favor of using protectionist measures to protect Canadian jobs, businesses and their security, from Multinational, predatory Capitalist take-over piranhas who have no intrest in people's lives, but only look at their bottom $-line-$. Unlike Obama, one has to be up front, and open about what you stand for. You do not try to hide your true agenda by lying to people.

Thieves are apparently targeting foreigners who exchange money at Mexico City's international airport. A French citizen was shot in the head on Tuesday, and authorities warned that gangs have put lookouts at exchange windows in the airport terminal. A 55 year-old French biotechnology researcher was attacked and robbed of $6,336 on a street near the airport. The French researcher is in serious condition at a local hospital. If Canadians are planning to go south for warmer weather, they should avoid Mexico on their vacation plans. There are many warm, friendly, safe destinations Canadians can go to, like Jamaica, Anguilla and St. Lucia, (located in the Caribbean), or the Great Barrier Reef at Queensland, Australia, or Mauritius island, situated in the Indian Ocean, or even Victoria, Vancouver Island. That is if you don't mind +3 to +11°C tempatures. It is far better than the -9 to -36°C tempatures we get in Northern Ontario. For those of us who can't go to warmer climate, we will just have to slug it out till spring, three months from now.

A 35-year-old man dies in a snowmobile accident in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. The man died after his snowmobile plummeted down an embankment in the city's north end. The man was traveling ahead of a group of 12 riders on an Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs trail. The man, who has not been named pending notification of next of kin, was pronounced dead in hospital. A groomer operator with Sault Trailblazers, had seen fresh tracks going up and over an embankment near a curve around 7 Pm. Al Tourigny stopped his groomer, grabbed a flashlight and saw a pair of feet under a Yamaha SX Viper at the bottom of the embankment. Tourigny ran down, and managed to flip the 700-pound snowmobile off the rider and cleared snow off the man, but there was no signs of life. Those groomed snowmobile trails were suppose to make snowmobile travel safer, but instead, are being used by snowmobilers more like "Highways", and the death toll continues to rise. Last year in the North east Region, eight people were killed in snowmobile incidents. People tend to use these groomed snowmobile trails as highways and their operators tend to speed aboard their snowmobile. Traveling at high speed, people tend to forget that a sudden impact, or the possibility of running into open water, leaves riders little in the way of a second chance. From Wawa to Kapuskasing through to North Bay, Mattawa and Burks Falls from Parry Sound, Sudbury and Manitoulin - along the North Shore to the Sault, the OPP are working hard to curb the snowmobile collision death toll. But despite their best efforts to make these groomed snowmobile trails safe, people continue to speed on them as if they are super-highways. We already know that speed and alcohol is a deadly mix. This recent snowmobile death is reason enough to re-think about making and using those groomed snowmobile trails. If these groomed snowmobile trails are being continually abused by snowmobilers who tend to speed on them, rather than adding more rules, regulations and restrictions, maybe it is high time that these groomed snowmobile trails are done away with, and get back to use snowmobiles as they were meant to be used, to travel into the woods in a more natural way, by having to pick your way slowly as you travel along the woods.

News of the murder case of twelve year-old Karissa Boudreau is solved. Penny Boudreau, a "Christian" mother finally confessed for the murder of her own daughter. Penny Boudreau, 34, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Bridgewater, N.S. courtroom today. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her twelve year-old daughter in her bid to keep her boyfriend from leaving. The twelve year-old girl, Karissa Boudreau frozen body was found on the banks of the LaHave River on Feb. 9th, 2008 two weeks after Penny Boudreau reported her missing on Jan. 27, 2008. Two days after the girl went missing, her mother had made an emotional plea to the media and public to help get her daughter back. She claimed that the two had an argument in a supermarket parking lot on the day she went missing. At the time of the twelve year-old girl's disappearance, police had scoured a river and wooded area close to the grocery store, but nothing turned up until a passerby stumbled upon the girl's frozen body. Karissa Boudreau, 12, was a Grade 6 student at Bridgewater Elementary School. According to Penny Boudreau confession, Boudreau was given an ultimatum by her live-in boyfriend, Vernon Macumber, who told her either the daughter had to go, or he would end their relationship. In no way did Vernon Macumber mean, that she was to kill her daughter, Karissa. On the day of the reported girl's disappearance on that snowy day at the supermarket where Karissa and her mother had that argument, Boudreau left Karissa in the car while she placed a call to her boyfriend, telling him the girl had gone missing. Boudreau then returned to the car and they drove to a nearby road where she told Karissa to get out of the car. Boudreau then knocked her daughter to the ground before pinning her down and strangling her with a length of twine. She then dragged the body back to the car, and drove to the nearby river. She hauled the girls pants down to give the appearance that a sexual assault had occurred. She then rolled the body down the river bank. Boudreau then went back home and gathered some of Karissa's clothing and drove to the local swimming pool Arena and dumped the clothing in a garbage bin. Then she told the police her daughter had run away. She also called friends and teachers to spread the story. According to Police, this was a well thought-out premeditated murder. Police are satisfied that the lived-in boyfriend Vernon Macumber, was not involved in the crime. What was Boudreau motive for killing her daughter? To save her faltering relationship with Macumber and keep Karissa from publicly calling her a bad mother. Justice Margaret Stewart, who handed down the sentence at the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Bridgewater, said the horrible crime merited a harsh sentence. So we have a "Christian" mother who belonged in a Christian culture, had murdered her own daughter and had lied to the police and the media in order to cover-up her dastardly deed.

Feb.1st. 2009; This morning at 6 AM, we have light snow falling with temperatures hovering around the -11°C mark with winds from the southwest at 30km/h. I do not know where January went, because it had passed by so fast. I see in the news that another one of our Canadian soldier was killed and four of his comrades were wounded by another roadside bomb on Saturday near Kandahar city. Sapper Sean David Greenfield, 25, was a combat engineer based in Petawawa, Ont. He is the second Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2009, bringing the Canadian military's death toll to 108 since the Afghan mission began seven years ago. We can thank Harper and the rest of the politicians on "The Hill" for that. Greenfield was with the 24 Field Engineer Squadron, 2 Combat Engineer Regiment, serving with the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group. Why are we sacrificing our Canadian soldiers? We have been fed that Bull story about wanting to help make a difference in the lives of the Afghan people by maintaining security and stability that will allow the country to rebuild and look to the future. The truth why we are still in Afghanistan and we are sacrificing our Canadian soldiers is mainly because of the oil pipeline that wants to be built, but the Taliban-Al Qaeda combine forces are preventing this from happening. Afghanistan and foreign oil companies, under the interim government of Chairman Hamid Karzai, are seeking to build a pipeline that would take oil and gas to India via Pakistan and Afghanistan. According to the latest artical on Saturday, January 31, 2009 from EurasiaNet.com , (EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia). The release of new estimates showing that Afghanistan may possess substantial reserves of oil and gas may shake up Central Asia’s increasingly competitive energy contest and alter the region’s geopolitical balance. In March, the US Geological Survey and the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Industry reported that Afghanistan’s resource base was much greater than previously believed. According to their findings, undiscovered petroleum resources in northern Afghanistan range from 3.6 to 36.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas, with a mean of 15.7 TCF. Estimates of oil range from 0.4 to 3.6 billion barrels (BBO), with a mean of 1.6 BB0. Estimates for natural gas liquids range from 126 to 1,325 million barrels (MMB) with a mean of 562 MMB. These estimates represent an 18-fold increase in the country’s potential oil resources, and more than triple the natural gas resources. With Afghanistan solidly in the US camp, Kabul’s emergence as an energy exporter could boost American efforts to regain lost ground in its geopolitical rivalry with Russia. Today, there are two pipeline projects involving Afghanistan that would connect Central Asian exporters and South Asian markets. One is a projected Iran-Pakistan-India line (IPI) and the other is a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India line, the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline or TAP (TAPI) being funded by the Asian Development Bank. Naturally, these contrasting plans have helped spur geopolitical maneuvering in the region. Given the US policy goal of trying to stymie Iran’s energy exports wherever possible, Washington opposes the IPI line and supports TAP. The latter also could enhance Washington’s new strategy of reorienting Central Asian energy to South Asian markets in order to steer Central Asian states away from Russia. Under any scenario, the end of Afghanistan’s stabilization process, along with the start of pipeline construction, is a long way off. But the vistas opened up by this new energy discovery not only raise the stakes of the pipeline battle, they have implications that go well beyond Afghanistan into Central Asia. This is the main reason why it is so important to have total control over Afghanistan. According to press release issued by the oil company’s liaison office, the Pakistan government has awarded the contract of laying the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) gas pipeline project to the United States International Oil Company (IOC) with an estimated cost of $10 billion. The contract for the 2,200-kilometre TAP gas pipeline, was awarded to the US based company. Two oil refineries and four thermal powerhouses, with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, would also be established under this project. It could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to the company and its CEO's. This is the reason why our Canadian soldier are in Afghanistan and getting killed. So that the corporations and their CEO's can make hundreds of millions of dollars. Given that news, I can not help wonder if that $50 million repair job on that Dahla Dam project in Afghanistan, which the Harper government had recently dished out from Canadian taxpayers money, had anything to do with the thermal powerhouse project? That Dahla Dam project was set to be completed by 2011, the same year that Canada's military mission in Afghanistan is scheduled to end. Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered his condolences to family, friends and comrades of Greenfield. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff extended his deepest sympathies to the loved ones of Sapper Greenfield and to the entire armed forces family. Ignatieff also stated that "Canadians owe a tremendous debt to the men and women of our Canadian Forces for their courage and sacrifice for our country". For OUR country??? What the heck is this guy talking about, sacrifice for our country? He must have ment for the oil corporations and their CEO's and that Islamic country! A country where Muslims attack all non-Muslim infedel people and want to take over the western free world with its pagan Islamic relegion and its Sharia laws.

In the meantime, world leaders fear protectionism could halt their globalization plans. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the global economic crisis is no reason to shun free trade, during a meeting of government and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland. Brown warned about the rising threat of protectionism and recommended co-operation to address the problem. This is not like the 1930s, the world can come together, it is possible for world leaders to make decisions that will make a difference to the projected development of the world economy. Now, of course, we've got to get the right ideas and, of course, we've got to build on the right principles. I believe we're in a global economy. You cannot now do without the global institutions that are necessary to make that global economy work," he said. Peter Sutherland, former head of the World Trade Organization, said every political leader at the forum is talking about fears that countries will go into a protectionist spiral and introduce more tariffs on imported goods, a policy that would restrict free trade between countries. I am sure the Multi-National and International companies are very upset about this. It would surely cramp their style and operations. If more countries get on that protectionist bandwagon, they may have to start another World War to get back on track to continue their globalization plans. As for U.S. President Barack Obama economic stimulus bill 1110 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, he will scale back his protectionist plans. His Globalization Masters will see to that. They are the one's who are pulling all the strings.

I notice that the EU has its problems when hundreds of British energy workers walked off the job on Friday to join protests over the use of imported workers at Britain's third-largest oil refinery. Workers at about a dozen other refineries in Scotland and South Wales, joined in the protest Friday. Contractors are upset that the company has brought in Italian and Portugeuse workers for the project and plans to bring in more. "We want fairness. We want the rights of our members to have the opportunity to be employed, not just on this job but on all jobs around the United Kingdom", said Bernard McAuley, regional representative of the Unite union. The protests began Wednesday at Total UK’s Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, eastern England, after the owner awarded a contract to an Italian company who will be bringing Italian and Portugeuse workers for the project and they plan to bring in more imported workers. So much for that globalization agenda that all the European countries got themselves sucked into. Now they are beginning to realize how all this is going to effect their individual countries. Oh, excuse me, did I say individual countries? They no longer have a sovereign country under the EU "umbrella". They are one big dysfunctional family. Enjoy.

Word of Caution; This can also happen to Canada if Canadians don't smarten-up and they passively allow our Politicians to drag Canada into the EU globalization agenda. We will no longer have a sovereign country to call our own. Everything will be taken care for us under the United Nations, which is another one of those corrupt, really dysfunctional organizations. Canadians had better start thinking about what they want before it is too late to do anything to stem the tide of Globalization.

Speaking about jobs and job security, I read an interesting article which suggest that Robots could fill jobs that people do, in the not too distant future. This is not a new thing, but it was always seen as something that might happen in the far distant future. That may no longer be the case. Japan is in the forefront in robotics which Japan hopes will be used to replace the 3.5 million people who are getting older. Japan hopes it will be ready to meet that challenge by 2025, a think tank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks. Japan is very reluctant to import workers from other countries. As it stands now, Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country who do not want to use large-scale immigrant workers. There is already a move to decrease foreign laborers. Japan's think tank says robots could help fill the gap. This will allow humans to focus on more important things, while robots do regular chores in the workforce that people do now. Japan estimates that it could save 2.1 trillion yen ($21 billion) by using robots. Robots can be used to monitor the health of older people, so they don't have to rely on human nursing care. Robots can look after children and do housework, replace receptionists, factory & farm workers, various trades people, counter personnel, some police work, and even replace teachers, news, sport and weather TV announcers. ect. The study suggest that Robots are important because they could help in various ways to alleviate such shortage in the labor force. The current fertility rate in Japan is 1.3 babies per woman, far below the level needed to maintain the population, while the government estimates that 40 percent of the population will be over 65 by 2055, raising concerns about who will look after the graying population. Changes are still needed for robots to make a big impact on the workforce. There's the expensive price tag, the functions of the robots still need to improve, and then there is the mindsets of people, where they will need to get used to using and living with robots. Will this become the trend for the rest of the world? The future is already looking in. This is what people can expect if we continue on this globalization treadmill. Major businesses will not hesitate to displace people with robots where ever they can in order to meet their bottom $-line-$ expectations. Job security is already a lost concept which will continue to become non-existent in this disposable minded society. Here's looking at you, Chum!