Moonlight Graham

Greatest post in the history of this forum. How do you remember this story? Were you old enough to remember the weaning, or did you mother tell you this lovely tale?

Yes exactly. The ECOSOC and the Programmes and Funds of the UN along with specialized agencies operating with the UN do some admirable world in the overlooked corners of the world. Maybe the General Assembly will even have some kind of non-binding vote on this displaying its "moral leadership". But UNSC doesn't give much of a poop. Well maybe neighbouring China has some interest in the stability there. 2000 dead, and its likely higher and there will will likely be more killing to come. This is basically 9/11 for the Uzbeks in terms of death. 1 life is equal to another, but not in the power structures of the international community unfortunately.

It is also because this problem does not affect the West in major big way, beyond the morality of it. Many people, and virtually all states, do not care about things that don't affect them. And as we know well from Rwanda and Darfur, states have no interest in intervening in a situation that wouldn't benefit them. Killings are meaningless unless it affects our security as well. Maybe if more terrorist start taking up camp in Somalia and other African countries, our govs and people in general will actually start to give a fart about instability and war in the continent.

Yeah, i'm thinking the fact us whities completely decimated their race and ripped off much of their land and many of them now live in disgraceful poverty, giving them a bit of tax break won't kill the rest of us. That reminds me, my great-great grandmother was metis so i think i might go get my native status card. HA!

Those rich corporate bastard natives.

The death in the DRC is crazy. It's remarkably ignored in the mainstream media. A few articles from time to time in the newspapers, but it certainly hasn't received the attention as something like Darfur, Rwanda, and Somalia etc. Reuters says in an article from 2008 that the conflict up until that time had killed 5.4 million people, the most from any conflict since since World War II. Ballsack!

That video is nuts. That guy is insane. "I have a right to know who you are". Actually i don't think he does.

You should hang around more women. In my experience, they are generally nicer than men. Also, they have boobies. Don';t know the details of your suffering, but stay strong bro. You seem like a good person. Humanity as a whole does suck, but there's so many nice individual peeps.

Comparing solar storms to Katrina is the stupidest thing i've ever heard...this week.

and brings down property values. I live in Ottawa. I could move 10 minutes across the pond and save a load of cash.

show me the unedited video.

oops. link added to the OP.

wrong. you're probably thinking of a "state". and Harper already has recognized Quebec as "a nation within a united Canada".

The government of Canada is the country's largest employer. How...interesting.

This is hilarious/ridiculous: link Boo-hoo!!

The way the gov is handling the spending for this summit is indeed a massive joke. A billion for security, and now 2 million for a fake lake pavilion. These morons are starting to look like the Chretien Liberals, gun-registry style!

from the article: Maybe they should find a poll about Katrina around a month and half after the event, rather than 2 weeks. That would be a much more fair and accurate comparison. I'm sure the poll numbers for the oil spill would be different if conducted a month ago.

Wow, the Liberals lose a couple of elections by a minority govt and some Liberals are thinking about self-destruction & complete reorganization? That's like the New York Yankees talking about chaning their name & moving to Orlando after they miss the playoffs a few years in a row. Don't worry Liberals, find a decent leader who has lived in the country most of his life then wait for the CPC to shoot themselves in the foot and you'll be alright. Oh, and please forget about Bob Rae.

ya i'm wondering about Canada's food now. Probably not much different.

Well dang, its nice to hear you acknowledge Milankovitch cycles and their impact. But what about variations in solar output/solar cycles (ie: sunspots?)? Do you think they are a factor as well? Skeptics make a good case for them, but i haven't heard much about them from the msm AGW proponents. Months ago Michael Hardner gave a me a link to a scientific article looking at CO2 and temp over the past few hundred million years or so (actually, Phanerozoic era if i remember). It looked at CO2 + solar output and its links to global temps, and it found a very high link. Here's the weblink: https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/home/droyer/web/PhanCO2%28GCA%29.pdf. See page 5668.

i read about this. it's scary and stupid.

You try to blame everything on "race", and that's your problem. You do not understand or separate the difference between "race" and "culture". You have no understanding of psychology or sociology. At one time, my race, whities of European origin, used to routinely torture criminals by horrifying means, such as the infamous "rack". Used to take on slaves, but no more. It was not long ago in Canada that the law said that a man could legally rape a woman if they were married. In the nature vs nurture debate, you haven't a clue. You are a twisted racist who tries to rationalize these warped thoughts of yours with pseudo-intellectualism.

They'd probably say "i'm glad i live in Canada".

So you're saying world poverty is worse now than pre-WWII? Countless statistics say you are very wrong on that. Foreign aid/development is about a heck of a lot more than "feeding people". Some of it involves sexual education to males and females so they are aware about reproduction & the sexual diseases they are spreading. It also involves things like providing birth control so that severe overpopulation can be curbed. Tell me something i don't know. Aid is and has always been criticized by many, both by aid-giving and aid-receiving countries. International development is one of the most complex problems that the human mind has ever attempted to tackle. You can help one area, but it can cause havoc in two others. Development efforts have certainly caused a great deal of problems in many ways rather than help (especially during the "modernization theory" era in the couple of decades post-1945. However, overall, the statistics say we are helping. As i said to Toad, areas such life expectancy, literacy rates, materal health, child mortality rates, women's rights, access to clean water, proper sanitation etc. have all improved over the last few decades. And as time goes on, we learn more about what works and what doesn't, such as allowing people in developing countries to determine their own fate rather than the West shoving it down their throats, and when to intervene and when to leave well enough alone.

The number of permanent residents from Uganda (the activists in this video) Canada took in in 2008 totaled 221. So i don't think you have to worry about this particular activist gathering too much, whom i'm sure represent everyone in their country . The top 5 sources of permanent residents Canada takes in come from China, India, Philippines, USA, and the U.K., in that order. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/research-stats/facts2008.pdf I have some best friends who are 2nd-generation Chinese and Filipino, as well as Jamaican and Vietnamese. They don't seem homophobic to me (well, no more than your typical sexually self-conscious male), nor do their siblings. I know a few of their 1st-generation parents quite well too and they are some of the nicest people i've ever met and i would be very surprised if they were extreme homophobes or more homophobic than your average white Canadian. BTW have yourself a found a good therapist yet?